RUSSIA DISTORTS HISTORY OF THE CAUCASUS
Lragir.am
17 May 06
An interesting incident was reported May 17 in Yerevan between
two Russian politicians. On this day, Russian Member of Parliament
Constantine Zatulin addressed the conference, organized by the chairman
of the Union of Armenians of Russia. Speaking about the history of
the Caucasian peoples, he enumerated the Armenians, Georgians and
the Azerbaijanis or “ancient Albanians,” as Zatulin referred to the
Azerbaijanis. Armenian political scientist Andranik Mihranyan living in
Russia, sitting not far from him, displayed a keen sense of national
identity and corrected his mistake. “Those are different nations,”
said Mihranyan.
“Maybe,” Zatulin replied to Mihranyan with an ambiguous smile. “Maybe,
although there can be different opinions on this,” announced Zatulin,
deepening the historical roots of the Azerbaijanis.