Azeri News agency, and I am saying this with a bit of tongue in cheek, is reporting that Nino Katamadze, one of Georgia’s best jazz musicians is traveling to Baku for a concert. Nothing extraordinary right? — a jazz musician doing a gig, but no Azeris have to politicize this one as well. It turns out Nino had given concerts in Armenia, (a mortal sin for Azerbaijan), and moreover during one of her shows she had dedicated one of her songs to Yerevan, the capital of Armenia and now the Azeri Ministry of Culture is investigating whether these facts are indeed true and if they prove to be so he will cancel Nino’s concert. What idiocy!!! What’s next I wonder.
Here is the offending song, enjoy!
Georgian jazz singer Nino Katamadze known for her song dedicated to Armenia to give concert in Azerbaijan
Baku. Ulkar Gasimova – APA. Posters of the
Georgian jazz singer and artist Nino Katamadze’s two-day concert in
Baku were installed in the capital, which announce that Katamadze will
perform concerts in Baku on May 30 and 31. The city residents have been
already informed that the Georgian jazz singer will perform at the
Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall and the Face Club.
APA correspondent learned that Katamadze was known in the world for her
song “Olei” dedicated to Armenia. The song was composed in the genre of
vocalise and its b-roll contains the views of Armenia. The song is
presented on Internet as “Olei Yerevan” and its b-roll is available at
http://eho.blogrus.ru/post/246/3948. Katamadze attended the jazz
festival in Armenia and said she dedicated this song to Armenia.
www.armeniajazz.am said that the Georgian performed a large concert
program in Armenia and it was great happiness for the Armenian people
to listen her. Deputy Director of the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic
Hall Afat Mikayilov told APA that they would investigate the issue and
if the facts were confirmed the concerts would be delayed. LINK
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Here is an article in Russian on the prospects of the newly formed military industry cooperation between South Africa and Azerbaijan. The gist of the article basically states that the prospect of the cooperation is basically dim for the following reasons: Azerbaijan and SAR are hoping to provide post-soviet armies in the region, excepting Armenia of course with whom Azerbaijan has a ton of unresolved issues, with light military transportation vehicles for waging mobile combats. The problem is that the cost benefit margin will be such that the armies of the region will still have to buy Russian military hardware since Russia is going to heavily discount comparable vehicles for countries it is in alliance with through the newly formed military umbrella structure of the CSTO. LINK in Russian
YEREVAN, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev,
projecting Moscow’s diplomatic clout in the Caucasus, pushed on Tuesday
to bring the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan together for talks on
breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh.Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian
population broke away from Azerbaijan in a war as the Soviet Union fell
apart and now runs its own affairs, with support from Armenia. It has
declared its independence, but is unrecognised by any state.Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan and Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev last
met on the issue in early June, but the war in Georgia in August
appears to have lent fresh impetus to diplomatic efforts to resolve the
conflict. (ARTICLE)
While the rest of the world has been preoccupied with the death of Milosevich, another government no less destructive than that of Slobo has been quietly and shamelessly busy in eliminating the cultural traces of Armenians from the lands they came to occupy due to the rapproachment of the Soviet government with that of Ataturk’s Turkey. The land in question is Nakhijevan, now under Azeri occupation, and the artefacts are the centuries old Armenian Christian cross-stones which represent elaborate and beautiful carvings of crosses on rocks and stones going back centuries. Some time ago a number of representatives of the Armenian Church in Tehran had videotaped the destruction of the khachkars, as they are known in Armenian, and made it available here, and now the Foreign Ministry of Armenia has released some photos documenting the aftermath of the destruction effectively turning the grounds of those artefacts into a shooting range, I am sure where the Azeri Turks will learn how to shoot Armenian Christians because it does not make sense to have built the shooting range in the first place. (more…)
Via Blogian. I just discovered some cartoons depicting the cowardly murderer Ramil Safarov who murdered his Armenian counterpart while the latter was asleep and decapitated him. The two were attending a NATO organized language training school in Budapest. I have no idea what the accompanying article says, since I am not a Hungarian (any out there who can transalate this for me I would greatly appreciate) but the cartoons (and again cartoons, what the hades is happening to this world, cartoons are taking over the world) tell it all. For more info on the heinous murder here.
