Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has become an honorary citizen of Astrakhan. Such status was conferred by the City Duma of the Astrakhan City Municipality on 8 September 2011, ANS reports.
The initiative came from a regional office of the All-Russian Azerbaijani Congress of the Astrakhan Region. The document on the status was signed by Chairman of the City Duma Y. I. Simeonova.
