Russian war correspondent responds to Azerbaijani state agency`s  threats against the Russian TASS

ArmInfo.  Russian war correspondent Alexander Kots, responding to threats from the Azerbaijani state agency AzerTaj against the Russian TASS, proposed demolishing Azerbaijani monuments on the territory of the Russian  Federation.

"AzerTaj teaches TASS geography. The Azerbaijani news agency, which  is still accredited in Russia, demands in an ultimatum form that TASS  write not "Stepanakert", but "Khankendi". We are talking about the  headline "Aivazovsky monument demolished in Stepanakert".

In fact, the agency does not care at all about the monument itself.  And the image of the country that barbarically demolishes monuments  is also not concerned. Not a word is devoted to Aivazovsky and the  reasons for the demolition of the monument," the journalist stated in  his Telegram channel.

According to him, journalists threaten to "use the historical names  of the cities of Kaliningrad (Konigsberg), Orenburg (Orynbor),  Volgograd (Sarysu), Grozny (Solzha-Gala), Novorossiysk (Sudzhuk-  Kale), Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Toyohara), Yuzhno-Kurilsk (Furukamappu),  Petrozavodsk (Petroskoi), Izhevsk (Izhkar), the Volga River (Itil)  and a number of other names." "Well, according to the laws of the  genre, we should first demolish the monuments to Azerbaijani artists  in these cities. Is there anyone of Aivazovsky's level, so as not to  waste time on trifles?" the war correspondent asked a rather  rhetorical question.

The monument by sculptor Salavat Shcherbakov (the author of the  Moscow monument to Heydar Aliyev) disappeared on July 30 - the  artist's birthday. The Atsakh Tourism and Culture Development Agency  reported that the monument, erected in 2021, was demolished. The  agency called the demolition another example of the policy of  eliminating the Armenian cultural trace in the region.