Armenians complain to Moscow about Caliber.Az  Save Ruben

"Moscow, Kremlin". "Moscow, Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street, 15A". "Moscow, Bolshaya Lubyanka Street, house 1".  The Coordinating Council of Russian-Armenian Organisations (CC RAO) appears to have sent an appeal to these addresses in connection with the November 4 publication of Caliber.Az "Operation 'State Minister': find and destroy. Vardanyan's life hours have begun to tick away".

To recap, in this publication we openly warned the newly-minted "state minister" of the separatist lump Ruben Vardanyan, the forces behind him and the commander of the Russian peacekeeping contingent, General Volkov, that Azerbaijan no longer intends to tolerate on its territory those who openly decided to take the path of threatening Azerbaijani statehood, and that our country is ready for the most decisive measures to protect territorial integrity, up to the physical destruction of Armenian bandits. We did not discover America here, and we did not put the international community on its back legs - any country has the right to resolve issues concerning its security and territorial integrity using all available means and forces. Everyone does it, including Russia (let’s remember then Russian Prime Minister Putin's famous phrase at the time: "We will pursue terrorists everywhere. At the airport, of course. So, excuse me, we'll catch them in the toilet, soak them in the toilet, in the end), the United States (the assassination of bin Laden in Pakistan), and Israel (the fingers of both hands are not enough for examples). And Azerbaijan has more than enough grounds and weapons to eliminate Vardanyan.

Armenians have long understood that Azerbaijan does not like to joke and cuts off all the heads of the separatist hydra. That is why they took the article on Caliber.Az seriously. Instead of removing Vardanyan from Azerbaijani territory, where Russian peacekeepers are currently stationed, and halting the games, the logical outcome of which will invariably be the expansion of the "Yerablur," they raised the now-familiar whining. And they fled to complain to their still-powerful overlord's "higher authorities".

"On November 4, 2022, the information and analytical portal Caliber.Az published the article 'Operation 'State Minister': find and destroy'. It was then reprinted by a number of other Azerbaijani information resources as well as Russian Vkontakte. In this article, dedicated to the inauguration of the NKR's state minister by former well-known Russian businessman and philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan, a staunch supporter of the Russian orientation of this Armenian-populated region traditionally sympathetic to Russia, the Azerbaijanis issue a direct threat of physical reprisal against Mr Vardanyan.

In connection with this fact, the Coordinating Council of Russian-Armenian Organisations (CC RAO) has appealed to a number of competent authorities of the Russian Federation with a demand to carefully investigate everything and stop the activities of some Azerbaijani media, whose publications do not comply with Russian Federation legislation," the publication of this organisation says, which, let us not be surprised, [it] is only on the contentment of "philanthropist" Vardanyan. And who, predictably, became concerned and began to pull the strings of the contained pocket structures.

No, it's time to howl here, and you'll see, you'll lose a long-term feeder in connection with the "untimely death" of a benefactor. But another thing is also interesting. If Vardanyan is a former Russian entrepreneur, and even, as he promised in September, renounced his Russian citizenship, then what does Moscow have to do with it? Russia, of course, is a generous soul, but harnessing for every former citizen is too much. If Vardanyan still has a Russian passport in his pocket, and has still big business in the Russian Federation (and where big business is, there is always politics, especially since oligarchs are people close to power in the Russian Federation), then again, the question is – what is he doing on the sovereign territory of Azerbaijan, and even under protection of Russian peacekeepers? So, the destruction of a terrorist on Azerbaijani territory is the right of the Azerbaijani state, which cannot contradict the legislation of the Russian Federation in any way, as the Russian–Armenian organisation feeding on Vardanyan's hands points out in its petition. Moreover, it is unlikely that Moscow would have turned a blind eye if one of the former leaders of the People's Liberation movement, for example, [exiled Akhmat] Zakayev, had come to the Chechen Republic.

And in conclusion, I would like to remind frightened Vardanyan and his curators of President Ilham Aliyev’s remarks he made at an event organised in Shusha on the occasion of Victory Day: "If anyone there, be it the government, the opposition or some element sent or trained from abroad, wants to have some bad intentions against us again, they will see our fist again. The history of the last two years has shown this clearly." The fist over the head of the "state minister" has already been brought in, and the "Bayraktar" is waiting for the operator's command…