After nineteen years exile in Russia, Ayaz Mutalibov, first post-Soviet leader of Azerbaijan arrived in Baku for the funeral of his 49-year old son. Azeri President Ilham Aliyev allowed him to enter the country in spite of the criminal investigation against Mutalibov after the 1990 crackdown on an Azeri nationalist uprising by Soviet troops in Baku.
He became president after Azerbaijan's 1991 declaration of independence from the Soviet Union but was toppled in 1992 during the pick of the war in rebel region of Nagorno-Karabakh and retired to Moscow never to return until now.
His Social Democratic Party of Azerbaijan worries he may be prevented from leaving to be pursued in a criminal inquiry.
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