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Young women with the pro-government youth organization Ireli, translation, "Forward," bring red carnations to drop on the the tomb of Heydar Aliyev, the father of the current president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, and the second president since the country's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, during the second day of the World Youth Festival that brought young people from around the world to Azerbaijan as part of a week-long tour to showcase Azerbaijan and extol the virtues of the country and the culture to foreigners in Baku, Azerbaijan on October 14, 2011.