Murad Badirov

Murad Badirov did not seek to stay in the centre of attention. Practical questions interested him: people, premises, transport, supply and the organisation of work.

He handled the operational and logistical lines, helped build connections between enterprises, and saw to it that the founders' decisions did not remain talk alone. The transport and supply of the whole association rested on his work.

He was close to Emin and Pervin, but did not limit his dealings to the brothers alone. With Parviz he shared an understanding of the commercial side of the work; with Anar — the need to keep internal discipline.

Murad did not seek absolute power. It was enough for him to know that the organisation they were creating would not fall apart over the next dispute.

After Emin's death Pervin discussed what had happened with the remaining founders, and the reaction was divided. Of all those present, only Murad Badirov said he was ready to back Pervin in his confrontation with Anar.

He ended up in the fight at the “50 Qəpik” restaurant — not as the one who started it, but as a man who could not walk past. That was one of the hardest choices in the history of BRATVA: between the five they had been, and the one the organisation became after 2004–2008.

By 2008 Murad had stayed loyal to his own principles — and it was he who remained the connecting thread between the operational side of the organisation and the memory of what BRATVA was conceived to be.