Rafig Taghi was born in Masally town in 1950. His poems, stories, essays, articles and sketches published in the mass-media have always caused social controversy and serious polemics. In 2004 he was dismissed from the Azerbaijan Writers' Union due to his essay titled "Shaumyan, the Caucasian eagle." In November 2006 he was arrested because of his article "Europe and Us" published in the "Art Newspaper" in Baku and was sentenced to three years imprisonment. He was a member of the "Free Writers' Hearth." He was the author of several prose books including "Close Stars" (1987), "For My Enemy's Sake" (1991), "Positive. Negative" (1996), two-volume "Princess Dipendra's Love" (2005), "Tall Midget" (2005) and "Young Earl Kentenberiyski" (2006). In November 2011 he was assassinated in unknown circumstances. In May 2012 a memorial sheet named after Rafig Taghi, Azerbaijani journalist, writer and publicist, was established in the Journalists' Memorial Museum of Washington.