ArmInfo.Russia continues to undertake all the necessary steps and arrangements to protect Alexander Lashin extradited from Belarus to Azerbaijan, Dmitri peskov, the press secretary of Russian President stated.
The Kremlin representative reminded that Lapshin has several nationalities, including Russian. . "Hence, he is also our citizen. We continue protecting him with all the legal tools available. This is not negotiation process, but all the legal steps aimed at his protection are being implemented," Peskov accentuated according to TASS information.
To mention, Minsk municipal court had also discussed the complaint for several hours at the session on January 26 and dismissed the complaint explaining its decision with lawfulness of the decision made by the Prosecutor's Office. Chairman of Armenia's Chamber of Advocates Ara Zohrabyan stated that there is only one option left -to apply to the Supreme Court of Belarus within 10 days. At the February 7 session,
Belarus Supreme court did not change the previous decision. To remind, on January 20 General Prosecutor's Office of Belarus fulfilled request of Azerbaijan's General Prosecutor's Office on extradition of Russian and Israeli citizen famous blog writer Alexander Lapshin to Azerbaijan. In the middle of December the citizen of the Russian Federation Alexander Lapshin has been arrested in the Republic of Belarus with the purpose of extradition on the demand of Azerbaijan for visiting Nagorno-Karabakh and making notes about those visitations in his blog. Lapshin is included in Azerbaijan's black list for visiting Karabakh and he was forbidden to enter Azerbaijan. However, in June 2015 Lapshin arrived in Azerbaijan via Georgia with his Ukrainian passport.