Sakina Aliyeva (Azerbaijani: Səkinə Abbas qızı Əliyeva, Russian: Алиева, Сакина Аббас кызы 15 April 1925 – 6 October 2010) was an Azerbaijani-Soviet politician.

Promoted to the Agitprop in that year, she first worked as an instructor in the propaganda department of the Nakhchivan Regional Committee of the Communist Party.

[1] In 1986, with the assertion of Glasnost policies by Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, ethnic tensions, which had been smoldering between Azerbaijani and Armenian populations for decades, resurfaced when Karabakh separatists saw an opportunity to reorganize the region.

Organizing a series of ethnically motivated attacks[5] and demonstrations, the separatists goal was to reclaim Armenian jurisdiction of the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which was within the borders of Azerbaijan.

[2][10][11] The declaration was quickly denounced by Afiyaddin Jalilov [az], who claimed Aliyeva had only signed the agreement under duress, forced by gunmen.

[2] In 2003, Farida Laman [az] a well-known Azerbaijani writer, wrote Azadlıq carçısı (Herald of Freedom), the biography of Aliyeva's life.