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RUSSIANS ACTIVATED IN AZERBAIJAN
Igor Muradyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/politics27011.html
Published: 13:38:59 - 01/08/2012
Moscow came to the conclusion that it is hopeless to build relations
with Azerbaijan through "slight" flirting. Azerbaijan has other
prospects and it is convinced that Russia is unable to resolve its
issues. The leadership of Azerbaijan is perplexed since it has run
into a deadlock, including several foreign directions.
It seems that especially under these conditions Baku may return to the
Russian scenarios but the issue is that these scenarios are exhausted
and harm the relations with the West, without which this state union
can't go on. Under these conditions, the Russians, as before, try to
use means of internal split but this time a more serious signal about
the activation of the Lezgian and Talysh issues in Azerbaijan came.
At the same time, during the past 20 years the Russians have defamed
themselves and their policy in the eyes of the peoples of the Eastern
Caucasus, in particular Lezgian and Avar that it is very difficult to
go back to these topics. The main negative factor is that there are
not enough qualified professionals in Moscow who are able to propose
ideas and do political planning. The specialists of the Institute of
Oriental Studies are offended by the neglect of the state towards them
so they treated these issues in a very restricted way. They don't see
their place and role in these spheres of activities. They are currently
told that they need to work on these issues only in accordance with the
salary they get. The Federal Security Service has so few specialists
that it is unable to coordinate this work at a high level.
Unlike the Russians, the Americans, for example, first of all invest
intellectual resources in such projects.
At the same time, the search for partners by non-academic research
centers of Moscow is fruitless. During 20 years, they have not formed
anyone but only grant eaters and tattlers. Currently, the Russians
avoid involving in the project development specialists from Dagestan
which shows the inadequacy of the Russian politics.
Apparently, however, the question is asked quite clearly, and it is
necessary to perform the task.
Azerbaijan, too, is not sitting in an attitude of waiting. In Moscow
and in Europe there are attempts to bribe information tools to block
Lezgian and Talysh topics. For this purpose, Azerbaijan already has
the information resources in Russia and is trying to get opportunities
in Europe.
However, Talysh and Lezgian issues have become very sharp and readable
and now, without these topics, the Caucasian information area becomes
boring. It is quite clear that it is impossible to block these topics
in the media. More successful are Azerbaijan's attempt to bribe some
representatives of the Lezgian and Talysh communities but according to
activists of these ethno-political movements, those who were tempted
by Azeri money started feeling very uncomfortable.
There are indications that soon Europe's "interest" in the Talysh
and Lezgian topics will grow for certain reasons, including those of
geo-political nature.
The main thing is that in the arena of these topics, competition is
consistently formed and their place and role in international politics
are being sought for.
Igor Muradyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/politics27011.html
Published: 13:38:59 - 01/08/2012
Moscow came to the conclusion that it is hopeless to build relations
with Azerbaijan through "slight" flirting. Azerbaijan has other
prospects and it is convinced that Russia is unable to resolve its
issues. The leadership of Azerbaijan is perplexed since it has run
into a deadlock, including several foreign directions.
It seems that especially under these conditions Baku may return to the
Russian scenarios but the issue is that these scenarios are exhausted
and harm the relations with the West, without which this state union
can't go on. Under these conditions, the Russians, as before, try to
use means of internal split but this time a more serious signal about
the activation of the Lezgian and Talysh issues in Azerbaijan came.
At the same time, during the past 20 years the Russians have defamed
themselves and their policy in the eyes of the peoples of the Eastern
Caucasus, in particular Lezgian and Avar that it is very difficult to
go back to these topics. The main negative factor is that there are
not enough qualified professionals in Moscow who are able to propose
ideas and do political planning. The specialists of the Institute of
Oriental Studies are offended by the neglect of the state towards them
so they treated these issues in a very restricted way. They don't see
their place and role in these spheres of activities. They are currently
told that they need to work on these issues only in accordance with the
salary they get. The Federal Security Service has so few specialists
that it is unable to coordinate this work at a high level.
Unlike the Russians, the Americans, for example, first of all invest
intellectual resources in such projects.
At the same time, the search for partners by non-academic research
centers of Moscow is fruitless. During 20 years, they have not formed
anyone but only grant eaters and tattlers. Currently, the Russians
avoid involving in the project development specialists from Dagestan
which shows the inadequacy of the Russian politics.
Apparently, however, the question is asked quite clearly, and it is
necessary to perform the task.
Azerbaijan, too, is not sitting in an attitude of waiting. In Moscow
and in Europe there are attempts to bribe information tools to block
Lezgian and Talysh topics. For this purpose, Azerbaijan already has
the information resources in Russia and is trying to get opportunities
in Europe.
However, Talysh and Lezgian issues have become very sharp and readable
and now, without these topics, the Caucasian information area becomes
boring. It is quite clear that it is impossible to block these topics
in the media. More successful are Azerbaijan's attempt to bribe some
representatives of the Lezgian and Talysh communities but according to
activists of these ethno-political movements, those who were tempted
by Azeri money started feeling very uncomfortable.
There are indications that soon Europe's "interest" in the Talysh
and Lezgian topics will grow for certain reasons, including those of
geo-political nature.
The main thing is that in the arena of these topics, competition is
consistently formed and their place and role in international politics
are being sought for.