Aliyev said Armenia’s Declaration of Independence includes direct calls for the annexation of Azerbaijan's Karabakh region to Armenia and the violation of Azerbaijan's territorial integrity.
A Russian Foreign Ministry official told RIA Novosti that there’s little chance that Armenian will withdraw from the Russian-led CSTO military alliance despite Western pressure on Yerevan to do so.
Mukayev was arrested in Grozny by Chechen siloviki (people, who work in the state organizations that are authorized to use force against citizens or others) in 2020 on suspicion of homosexuality.