Blogger calls on Garabagh Armenians to learn Azerbaijani language and keep local currency

Sam Mailyan, an "activist" and blogger living in Garabagh, advises the Armenian population of the region to learn the Azerbaijani language in a hastened manner.

"General advice to those who want to live well - start remembering the Azerbaijani language (at least to read the inscriptions on the goods in the markets), and sharp young people should learn it intensively," he wrote on his Facebook page, Caliber.Az reports.

"I am often asked in recent days about what will happen next. What is the catch of Aghdam? Of course, I am not a foreteller, but something is real. Cargoes from Armenia to Garabagh will enter only with the status of humanitarian aid, any business interests will be strictly suppressed by Azerbaijani customs officers.

The checkpoint itself will operate in the following mode: only humanitarian goods will go to the Armenia-Garabagh direction, only the population will go to the Garabagh-Armenia direction, and only with personal belongings no more than 80 kg.

You ask how to bring commercial goods into Garabagh. It's simple: you buy and resell it in Agdam bases or bring it from Armenia, but clear it according to Azerbaijani laws. I am not yet mentioning the laws of Azerbaijan, which are designed to favour local producers. Let's say you are forbidden to import English tea so you buy Azerbaijani tea. Accordingly, to buy it, you need manats, which you have to deposit in Stepanakert banks (Khankendi - Ed.). So far in the form of foreign currency.

Regarding logistics. Steel yourself to show less emotion when you see columns of cars with Azerbaijani number plates and a Russian convoy ahead in the direction of Shusha and Aghdam and vice versa. At first, so that your eyes get used to it, Russians will accompany these cars. In the future, the convoys will travel independently, make casual stops in Khojaly, all sorts of quick bargaining, exchanges, etc. I advise businessmen to save manats today.

And general advice to all those who want to live qualitatively: start to remember their language, and sharp young people should learn it intensively. The earlier you learn it the more likely you will be the one who won the happy ticket from simple human communication. This is the main vector of reintegration," an Armenian blogger wrote.