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Russian and Jewish communities of Azerbaijan addresses Russian President concerning radio program insulting Azerbaijan

04 November 2011 09:06 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. Russian and Jewish communities of Azerbaijan sent a letter to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Director General of Russian State Television and Radio Company Oleg Dobrodeev concerning the Vesti FM radio programâ€™s insults against Azerbaijan. The letter signed by members of the Azerbaijani Parliament Mikhail Zabelin (on behalf of Russian community) and Yevda Abramov (on behalf of Jewish community) reads:

â€œOn November 1, Vesti FM broadcast a radio program â€œUtro s Vladimirom Solovyovim. Polniy contactâ€ which voiced insults against Azerbaijan Republic and Azerbaijani people. Solovyov violated all norms of journalist ethics and said â€œeven one drop of Armenian blood to them is a subject of wild, inhuman, I would even say, beastly, hatredâ€. He used such offensive and unacceptable expressions against Azerbaijanis like â€œbazaar people devastating Russiaâ€, â€œwho have come here in great numbers and are splitting on Russian cultureâ€ â€œnot caring about Russian cultureâ€, â€œnow feeling entitled to openly discriminate against Russian citizens in the territory of the Russian Federationâ€. The program presenter called Azerbaijan as a racist country and called on all Russian citizens to boycott Azerbaijanis and their business. Solovyov is a member of Russian Jewish Congress. He even dared to compare Azerbaijanisâ€™ attitude toward Armenians with the Holocaust, tragedy of Jewish people. We, Russian and Jewish communities of Azerbaijan express protest against the Solovyovâ€™s behavior and insults against multinational Azerbaijan. We consider that it is very great disrespect to accuse the country, where tens of peoples live in peace and friendly atmosphere, of racism. Undoubtedly such provocations are directed toward the worsening of peaceful neighborhood relations between the two countries. The troublesome fact is that open extremist calls and insults directed toward the instigation of ethnic confrontation were voiced in the radio program of the large state media corporation of Russian Federation. We request you to take measures regarding the â€œjournalistâ€, who insulted Azerbaijani people in a live program. We hope that the forces, who play anti-Azerbaijan cards and seed dissension between Azerbaijan and Russia, will get an appropriate responseâ€.