Anar Naziriv

Anar Naziriv joined the future circle of founders later. From the very beginning he was distinguished by ambition and by the desire to hold leadership positions. He did not want to remain a man who carries out the decisions of others.

Anar held that the organisation must have a single centre of command, a clear system of subordination and a definite leader. For him order was not merely a necessity — it was a way of taking control of what was happening.

Gradually he began to take up internal coordination, the organisation of the participants' work and the settling of administrative questions. Anar understood well that in a structure uniting hundreds of people it is impossible to keep gathering everyone around one table and voting on every question.

In 2003 he proposed to take the leadership upon himself, and the others agreed. He liked the very idea of a large organisation, but even more — the possibility of one day becoming its chief leader. Perhaps the founders' first mistake lay exactly here: they gave a man the possibility of running the organisation without finally agreeing on the limits of his power.

The other founders did not at once take his ambitions as a threat: some considered that exactly such a man was needed to run a growing structure, others simply did not want to spend time on administrative work.

After Emin's death, his confrontation with Pervin became the main fault line of BRATVA, and Parviz's attempt to restore the balance — the last act of the first era.

After Emin Aliyev fell down the stairs, a version sounded in the organisation according to which Anar himself could have been involved in what happened: the cause given was a conflict over influence and leadership. Anar himself denied any involvement. In the archive both versions lie side by side, and neither has been closed.

Once Pervin Aliyev and Murad Badirov decided to give Anar a harsh warning. According to the accounts of the participants in the chronicle, when Anar came out of the restaurant toilet, a fight broke out between them. He was beaten and warned never again to interfere in the lives of the founders and their families.

After that the relations between the participants were ruined for good. The unexpected position was taken by Parviz Aghayev: despite the conflict, he decided to help Anar out of the situation that had formed.

According to one of the versions of the events, his son voluntarily took upon himself certain of his father's duties. This decision became additional grounds for serious internal disagreement, and the first case in which the second generation entered the history of the organisation not as an observer, but as a participant.

About a month later Parviz Aghayev proposed to make Anar Naziriv the main public face of BRATVA. The calculation was plain: if problems arose in the future, the main responsibility would lie on Anar, and the rest would keep their independence. All present agreed — but each had his own reasons.

Thus Anar Naziriv received the status of BRATVA's main face. The irony lay in this: the man around whom so many disputes arose received exactly the post that could make him responsible for practically everything.

By 2008 he found himself at the centre of command. But this was already a quite different BRATVA: the structure created by five fell to one — and was bound to pass it further.