Broadcast about Nagorno Karabakh mounted hysteria in Baku
17.01.2010 16:25 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ In its recent Vesti-Povolzhye news program, Nizhny
Novgorod State TV and Radio company broadcast a report on how the
local Armenians of the town were providing assistance to Nagorno
Karabakh Republic. The author of the report used the word Artsakh to
refer to Karabakh, saying that it was the ancient name of the
territory.
This mounted hysteria in Azerbaijan. Particularly, the country’s
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Elhan Polukhov said the statement will
receive a relevant reaction.
In response to Azeris’ anti-Armenian attack, Miasin Armenian
Internet-community has launched an online campaign calling on
Armenians to send their acknowledgement letters the TV Channel
Director Zeleniy Nazariy by the following addresses: [email protected];
[email protected]; [email protected].
The Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR) is a de facto independent republic
located in the South Caucasus, bordering by Azerbaijan to the north
and east, Iran to the south, and Armenia to the west.
After the Soviet Union established control over the area, in 1923 it
formed the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) within the
Azerbaijan SSR. In the final years of the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan
launched an ethnic cleansing which resulted in the Karabakh War that
was fought from 1991 to 1994.
Since the ceasefire in 1994, most of Nagorno Karabakh and several
regions of Azerbaijan around it (the security zone) remain under the
control of Nagorno Karabakh defense army.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have since been holding peace talks mediated by
the OSCE Minsk Group.
Nizhny Novgorod State TV and Radio company is the successor of Gorki
State TV channel whose 50th anniversary was marked on September 29,
2007. This is the only TV and radio company in Nizhny Novgorod region
possessing exclusive technical equipment, including a movable
satellite station, TV studios with a total area of 150, 230 and 450
sq.m., as well as a portable TV studio and a unique sound studio.