“A report on hate speech and falsification of history in Armenian schools was presented in Baku”. Yesterday, an article with this title appeared in the Azerbaijani press. It is clear from the material that the Azerbaijani state provided funds to study Armenian textbooks and find alleged hatred there. Of course, they can’t find any factual material, let me say more: real hatred and aggressiveness are propagated in Azerbaijani textbooks. But the remarkable thing here is that the state invested money, gave a task to the relevant bodies, then financed the printing of books in English and tried to spread this obvious falsehood, that is, it put resources on specific propaganda issues. Not to mention that deputies came to the event of that report to talk about it and spread it.

For your information, I myself, very well understanding the risks coming from Azerbaijan, on my own initiative, studied the reprinted versions of the history textbooks in the public schools of Azerbaijan after 2020 one by one in May of last year, I studied those textbooks for months, I removed the dangerous concept of aggression propagated against the Republic of Armenia, I showed how it was introduced in the Azerbaijani textbooks, I prepared both Armenian and English versions of the material.

And the current leadership of RA not only failed to look at, understand, evaluate, and present all that to international partners, but also fought, put resources so that those who talk about the risks coming from Azerbaijan are targeted, spent money so that their “experts”, their deputies, come and say that there is no such problem, it is a lie.

Based on this simple example, one can even understand that we are dealing with the tyrannical government of Azerbaijan in Armenia. And the information war continues against us on all fronts, both from Azerbaijan and from the RA leadership…

Azerbaijani scholar Tatevik Hayrapetyan

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