Zahid Oruc

Zahid Maharram oglu Orujov (, commonly known as Zahid Oruj; born 1 February 1972 ) is an Azerbaijan politician and chairperson of the Azerbaijani Social Research Center. Oruj is pro-government. He was a member of the pro-government Motherland Party from 1992 to 2013.

In the 2005 parliamentary elections, Oruj won the vote in the Barda electoral district while running as a candidate for the pro-government Motherland Party. The European Court of Human Rights ruled in 2010 that the Aliyev regime in Azerbaijan had engaged in electoral fraud by preventing Nemat Aliyev, a member of the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, from running. During the election, Oruj asked his supporters to vote for Aliyev and praised his regime.