Russia officially recognizes Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan -  Maria Zakharova 

ArmInfo.  Russia officially recognizes Nagorno-Karabakh as the territory of Azerbaijan. As reported by TASS, the official representative of the Russian Foreign  Ministry Maria Zakharova commented on the recent words of the aide to  the Russian President Vladimir Medinsky.  She called for them not to  be taken out of context and for the thoughts expressed to be  correctly interpreted.

According to Zakharova, Medinsky spoke about the historical aspect of  the problem, the socio-cultural characteristics of the region and the  suffering of the people living in Artsakh. "There is no need to take  non- existent theses out of context and change the words around,  giving them a completely different meaning," the head of the Russian  Foreign Ministry said.

Earlier Medinsky gave the example of Nagorno-Karabakh in the context  of the Ukrainian settlement.  According to him, which he expressed in  an interview with RT, if the conflict is stopped along the entire  front line, some kind of truce is concluded, this region will turn  into a huge Karabakh. "There was such a disputed region between  Armenia and Azerbaijan - Karabakh," said the Russian presidential  aide.

In this regard, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry issued a statement  in which it considered Medinsky's comparison a "distortion of facts."  Baku also expressed regret that Vladimir Medinsky compared the war in  Nagorno-Karabakh with the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Official  Yerevan did not comment on this matter.