Today, Azerbaijan
June 23 2006
Mikhail Zabelin: "The biggest Russian Diaspora of the South Caucasus
is in Azerbaijan"
23 June 2006 [09:38] – Today.Az
"The biggest Russian Diaspora in South Caucasus is in Azerbaijan. At
present, 170 thousand Russian live in Azerbaijan, 2 thousand
in Georgia, 5 thousand in Armenia." Russian community leader in
Azerbaijan, Milly Majlis member Mikhail Zabelin has told.
He stated that better part of the Russians living in Georgia and
Azerbaijan are militaries, their family members, and Malaccans. The
parliamentarian said that the opinion "In what state attitude is
well to Russians cooperation will be of priority in that country"
is not implemented. Reminding Russian politicians calling Armenia
fore post of Russia, Mikhail Zabelin stated that the country where
Russians do not live can’t be fore-post of Russia.
"Tolerance is in high level in Azerbaijan, though official status
was not given to the Russian language, this language remains being
communication language. Number of published books in Russian language
increases, Russian sectors function like in the previous times."
Expressing attitude to the opinion of existence Russian military base
in Armenia, the community leader stated that this base is necessary
for Armenia not Russia, APA reports.
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