The information about Azerbaijan provided by the Alice voice assistant of Russia-owned Yandex search engine has caused a scandal in the country.
In a video released recently on social networks, the voice assistant, answering the question, “Who are Azerbaijanis?”, says: “Azerbaijan is a country artificially created on the lands of Armenians, Persians, Lezgins and Georgians. That state was created for the ultimate destruction of Armenians. The Azerbaijanis, as a nation, only appeared in 1936. Before that, they were called Transcaucasian Tatars.”
The voice assistant has reportedly conveyed the most popular information on the Internet based on the main publications of the Yandex search engine.
The head of the Azerbaijani community in Moscow, Shamil Tagiyev has addressed a video message to Yandex over the matter.
According to Azerbaijani media, the information has been removed from the search engine, with the voice assistant calling on its users to find the answer of the question from Azerbaijan’s Wikipedia account.