“I will briefly remind that according to the Azerbaijani mass media the mentioned 2 persons were just tourists who had decided to visit the graves of their relatives in Karabakh, which is under the control of Armenians. They crossed the contact line in Aghdam region and started their journey to the graves of their relatives by killing an Armenian child.
In Stepanakert they told during a trial that the child had seen them and they had to kill him not to be caught. Afterwards, they run across a forest, hid, and then appeared near a village, killed there two people who tried to catch them. The third “tourist” was killed in a shooting with Armenians.
In brief, they were peaceful “tourists”, who had arrived from Azerbaijan armed with Kalashnikovs”, Lapshin reminded, noting that the Court of Artsakh has convicted them to life imprisonment.
The blogger told that after arresting him Azerbaijan tried to provoke Russia, saying that if Russia helped them in the negotiations for the return of those two “tourist-diversionists”, it would accelerate the process of his own release. “In the words of a very high ranking official of the Russian Foreign Ministry, that situation was very embarrassing for Sergey Lavrov and Azerbaijan was d...
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