Azerbaijan Museum of Independence has hosted exhibition dedicated to the 30th anniversary of Black January.

Azerbaijanis mark the 30th anniversary of the Black January, meaning the killing of Azerbaijani civilians when Soviet troops took to the streets of Azerbaijan on the night leading to January 20, 1990 to crash the making of Azerbaijan’s independence. Operation Strike (Udar) Union killed over hundred Azerbaijani civilians.

A concert of classical music will be held at the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Kazakhstan on January 18.

Head of the Department for Foreign Policy Affairs of Azerbaijan’s Presidential Administration Hikmet Hajiyev has said that Mikhail Gorbachev must be stripped of his Nobel Prize Peace Prize over sending troops to Baku in January 1990 to crush the making of Azerbaijan’s independence.

A member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Paul Gosar, has condemned the killing of 147 Azerbaijani civilians by Soviet troops in Baku on January 20, 1990.

Paul Gosar, a member of the US House of Representatives, has made a statement in remembrance of the 30th anniversary of the events in Azerbaijan culminating in what is now known as Black January, Trend reports referring to Azerbaijan’s Embassy in the US.

Week of Patriotic Cinema is underway in Azerbaijan. The event is timed to the 30th anniversary of the January 20 tragedy.

An exhibition entitled "Bloody memory" will open at the National Art Museum on January 17.

From year to year, the Armenian propaganda campaign continues to impose on the world community a far-fetched version of the events of January 1990, and the pogroms in Baku and Sumgayit, which allegedly provoked a massacre of Armenians, Rizvan Huseynov, Director of the Center of Caucasian History, told Trend.

Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater will pay tribute to the memory of the victims of Black January.