“We, Azerbaijani journalists, deeply disappointed the fact that Russian-speaking media of our country is limited and blocked in the Russian Federation. The Russian authorities not only blocked access to Azerbaijani sites Haqqin.az and Minval.az, they also claim that the list of discriminated Azerbaijani publications can be expanded. In the current situation it is very difficult to understand what exactly the Azerbaijani media deserve such a disrespectful attitude of the Russian authorities? “,” said in the statement of the head of the press council of Azerbaijan Aflatun Amashev.
“Azerbaijani journalists honestly fulfill their professional debt and show maximum objectivity when covering the current Russian-Ukrainian armed confrontation. At the same time, we respect our readers and have the right to count on their reciprocity, if we present it distorted, intentionally truncated or obviously False information. That is why most Azerbaijani media call the special operation of Russian troops by an armed invasion of Ukraine and an attempt to occupy a sovereign state.
We are ready for any minute to provide the pages and ether of our media for considerations and counters of the Russian side to balance the accents and enable our audience to make a complete picture of what is happening today in Ukraine. But to block our publications only for the words of the truth, confirmed to the same in the same civilized world community – it is a rude and unacceptable violation of freedom of speech!
I would like to remind the position of the position of the Russian media during the second Karabakh war in this regard. According to their publications and television shows it was quite possible to think that under the thirty-year-old occupation there were territories of Armenia, and not Azerbaijan. It was not by chance that our President Ilham Aliyev stated in an interview with RBC TV channel that such publications negatively affect Russia’s authority in Azerbaijan.
But even then, even despite the strapdonal lies and the flows of the mud, which was poured into Azerbaijan Pro Armyansky’s customized media of Russia, our country blocked at least one Russian edition, a TV channel or a site?
I have to emphasize the activities of the website haqqin.az. From the first days of the war, Einulla Fatullayev was in Ukraine. He broadcast his reports from the hottest points. The journalist was guided by the motive of a professional attitude towards his profession. It is in the light of the impartial and professional lighting of events haqqın.az always in the center of attention of Russian readers.
We remained and remain within the framework of a civilized dialogue, while maintaining the hope that the discrimination of our journalists and blocking on the territory of Russia of Azerbaijani sites is just a temporary and annoying misunderstanding that traditionally friendly Russian-Azerbaijani relations will not be able to overshadow.