Russian ‘Vzqlyad’ newspaper sees Azerbaijan’s history in a distorted way – Photo

The distortion of historical facts related to Azerbaijan has become a kind of norm in the online resources strongly supporting the position of Armenia in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Russia-based Vzqlyad newspaper (which distorts facts about Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in particular not the first time), alas, is no exception. The map published on newspaper’s page shows the history of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. However, it shows the conflict’s history with errors.

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In particular, it several times refers to "Greater Armenia” which allegedly belonged to Karabakh. To say that this is nonsense makes no sense, since this is nothing but fabrications by Armenians.

It also cites interesting historical facts about Azerbaijani refugees expelled from Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh region. However the number indicated by the newspaper is far less the real number.

Such a distortion of historical facts does not help to resolve the Karabakh conflict. Vzqlyad, apparently, sees Azerbaijan as an aggressor while Azerbaijan has itself become the victim of aggression by Armenia.  
 
We urge our readers to express their protest against  this false fact and send a letter of protest as in case of sample letter below to Russian newspaper’s e-mail address at [email protected].

To the attention of the Vzqlyad editors!

A map in your infographic-styled material on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict (http://www.vz.ru/infographics/2009/9/18/328927.html) released on Sept. 18 includes distorted facts about Azerbaijan’s history.

This is certainly disrespect towards Azerbaijan and in no way contributes to establishment of relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

We kindly request you to correct incorrect historical facts or remove the wrong map. I hope for your understanding and professionalism and hope that the errors will be corrected soon.

Thank you

(Name, Surname).