[APA.AZ] The head of Dagestan ...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republic currently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... , Vladimir Vasilyev has resigned, APA’s Moscow correspondent reports citing the press service of Kremlin.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... has accepted the resignation of the head of Dagestan.
Under the new order of Vladimir Putin, Sergei Melikov has been appointed the acting head of Dagestan.
[APA.AZ] "We have demands. We must have very serious guarantees. International mediators must confirm these guarantees to us. At the same time, we must be given a schedule for Armenia's withdrawal from the occupied territories, the dates on which it will leave each district. Of course, then the war will stop, because we want this issue to be resolved peacefully, but it must be resolved," said President Ilham Aliyev in his interview with TRT Haber TV channel, APA reports.
"Some mediators want only a ceasefire. The ceasefire has been in force since 1994. Why has this issue not been resolved over the years? Why were the resolutions of the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... not implemented? Why weren’t any sanctions imposed on the aggressor state? All these questions remain valid. There are no answers to these questions," the head of state emphasized.
"Today, as the glorious Army of Azerbaijan conducts its successful operations and liberates our ancestral lands, these calls are being made: do not move forward, take a break. War has its own rules, its own laws. Every day has its own significance. If we take a break, the other side will gather strength and deploy additional forces. Their speeches already show that they are also involving Armenians living outside Armenia in this war. Thus, they want to take this war out of the regional arena and turn it into a global war. Therefore, our position on the ceasefire is quite explicit. We are ready for that but there are certain conditions that I have also announced," the President said.
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[APA.AZ] Azerbaijan’s First vice-president Mehriban Aliyeva shared a post on her Instagram page, APA reports.
The post reads as follows:
"Dear compatriots! In the time when our valiant Army conducts successful counteroffensive operation in order to liberate the ancestral Azerbaijani lands from the Armenian occupation, the enemy doesn’t give up showing its nasty intentions. During the whole week when the heated battles have been continuing, Armenia shamelessly circulates fake news. The Armenian Diaspora plays special role by actively providing false information to the international community during this fierce attack. Today, we all are indeed the witnesses of historic events! We can’t just watch from the sidelines the occurrences.
Each of us is obliged to do his best in order to draw near Great Victory moment. It means that all of us are the soldiers obliged to make maximum efforts in order to unmask the Armenian lie. I call on each of you to unmask fake news of the Armenian propaganda and to deliver the truths about the Armenia aggression to the international community on all possible platforms! Everybody who considers Azerbaijan his Motherland should raise his voice and should refute Armenians’ lie! May the Almighty God protect our Army, people and Motherland!"
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[APA.AZ] "There were several targets of Armenia’s attack on Tovuz in July. Because during the period prior to this, they declared that if the battles occur around Nagorno Garabagh, they are ready to strike our strategic infrastructure projects — Sangachal Oil and Gas Terminal and pipeline. Therefore, one of the purposes of the attack in Tovuz region was that they made a test on how far they can penetrate. Because their main purpose there was to cross state border, to occupy the Azerbaijani lands and to come near to that TANAP pipeline or to take it under control", President Ilham Aliyev voiced these statements in his interview with TRT Haber TV channel, APA reports.
The head of our state also talking about other reasons of the attack said: "Currently, the very deep crisis, both political and economic, is lived through in Armenia. As a result of this crisis, the political ties in Armenia have been broken because currently, Pashinyan’s government casts into prison the main opposition leaders. For instance, he deprived of deputy immunity the chairman of the main oppositional party, and threw him in jail. The criminal case has been opened against two former presidents. There is no freedom of speech, freedom of gathering. He destroyed the Constitutional Court by force, brought his own people. Therefore there is already a very serious concern inside Armenia. Pashinyan organizes this attack in order to divert the public opinion. He wants to involve Russia, to destroy our strategic infrastructure, to stabilize internal situation and to occupy a pert of the Azerbaijani lands and thereafter to strengthen his position in the discussions".
Clearly the goal when Turkey began shipping Syrian mercenaries there and helped Azerbaijan launch an attack. The cover of NATO has enabled Turkey to invade NE Syria, bomb civilians in N Iraq under the pretext of fighting the PKK, and to ship their mercenaries to Libya and AZ. https://t.co/9y66YJJ7g4
[RT] Azerbaijan’s president has called on his French counterpart to apologize for his recent claims that Syrian soldiers have been funneled into the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh, where Baku is fighting against Armenian forces.
"There are no mercenaries. We have an army of 100,000 soldiers," Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev said in an interview with Al Arabiya on Sunday. "I demand that La Belle France apologize and show responsibility."
Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron made the headline-grabbing claim that he had "reliable information" indicating that members of certain Syrian "jihadist groups" had arrived in the flaming Nagorno-Karabakh hotspot through the southern Ottoman Turkish city of Gaziantep.
Armenia, whose forces are fighting a heavy battle over the disputed mountainous enclave with neighboring Azerbaijan, voiced similar allegations. It directly accused The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... of ferrying in "mercenaries" to support its ally Azerbaijan’s war effort. Baku has brushed off those claims, dubbing them "cheap propaganda."
Officials in Baku maintain that the country’s military is well-staffed and doesn’t need any foreign manpower. "Azerbaijan doesn’t need any third-party participation," Hikmet Hajiyev, a senior adviser to the president, told RT.
The nation of 10 million people has "enough of our own resources" and also "enough reserve potential" to carry on fighting, the official stated. He also insisted that Turkey, which reaffirmed its unwavering support for Azerbaijan, isn’t involved in the conflict "as a third party." Ankara also denied sending Syrian mercenaries into Nagorno-Karabakh.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Rihanna has been urged to apologize to 'all Muslims' after using a song featuring sacred Islamic texts as a soundtrack for her latest lingerie show.
A video of the showcase, which saw models dancing around on stage in the singer's provocative Savage x Fenty lingerie, was shared on Amazon Prime last week. But while the risque designs and stunning models certainly earned attention, the online broadcast has sparked fury thanks to the popstar's choice of music.
Fans were left outraged after discovering Rihanna, 32, chose to use the song Doom, by London producer Coucou Chloe, which features a narration of a sacred Hadith.
Why aren’t they going after Mademoiselle Chloe? It’s her song, after all.
In Islam, Hadiths are sacred texts that are believed to have been spoken and actions conducted by the Prophet Muhammad during his lifetime.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
