Mikhail Zabelin: "The programs of Azerbaijani television are not on the level of being transmitted abroad"

"If transmission of an Azerbaijani TV channel starts in Russia, other countries will put similar demands.

This seems unreal".

The due announcement was made by Mikhail Zabelin, head of the Russian community of Azerbaijan and member of parliament, at a joint press conference with the vice president of the All-Russian Azerbaijani congress Afrand Dadashev.

He said the country which needs the TV channel transmission more should make concessions.

"Azerbaijan needs this more. I think the problems of Azerbaijani television are not on the level of being transmitted abroad. They can be perceived with humor in Russia.

He added that the members of the Baku team of the Club of the cheerful and sharp-witted were offered to conduct a program at Russian TV, but the proposal was not accepted. At the same time, Armenian parodist accepted such a proposal and now conducts a program at one of the leading Russian TV channels.

Afrand Dadashev, in turn, noted that Azerbaijan should not reject foreign languages, especially Russian language, in the globalizing world.

"How can we reject it, if we had lived within Russia for 200 years? I do not consider Russian as a foreign language".

/APA/