Footage of Azerbaijani police entering Stepanakert in Nagorno-Karabakh has emerged

In Stepanakert, the former capital of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Azerbaijani police officers appeared on the streets. Footage of Azerbaijani police officers is already being published on Telegram channels.

In the published footage we see cars of units and services of the Azerbaijani police driving through the streets of Stepanakert. Azerbaijani police will take over for service on the territory of the former capital of the unrecognized republic.

Let us recall that as a result of the Azerbaijani military operation, which lasted just over a day, Nagorno-Karabakh was forced to capitulate. After this, a mass exodus of the Armenian population to neighboring Armenia began. To date, tens of thousands of people have fled Nagorno-Karabakh.

Today, the President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Samvel Shahramanyan signed an official decree on the termination of the existence of the Republic of Artsakh from January 1, 2024.

Until this time, the power structures of the unrecognized republic will cease to function, and the residents will have to decide their own fate - or remain in Karabakh, participating in the so-called. “reintegration” carried out by the Azerbaijani authorities, or leave for Armenia or other states.

The huge number of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh indicates that the majority of the Armenian population does not intend to live in the region any longer. Although the Azerbaijani authorities guaranteed the security of the Armenian population, people in Nagorno-Karabakh, for obvious reasons, are not inclined to trust the statements of official Baku.

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[Rumata]

Very bad. Whatever it is, the police in Artsakh should be made up of local Armenians. Then Artsakh could enter Azerbaijan like Chechnya, which is part of the Russian Federation.

[forty-eighth]

Azerbaijan probably does not want Artsakh to become part of the Russian Federation like Chechnya

[Blackmokona]

Quote: forty-eighth

Azerbaijan probably does not want Artsakh to become part of the Russian Federation like Chechnya

And he does the right thing. Why does he need an endless headache under his nose?

[AdAstra]

And he’s probably doing the right thing.""""""

[Rumata]

Quote: forty-eighth

Azerbaijan probably does not want Artsakh to become part of the Russian Federation like Chechnya

Yes. Patamusho they have a thousand-year-old enmity and hatred.
In the Russian Federation there was no hatred of Chechens, there was hatred of terrorists. During the war, peaceful Chechens lived and worked in the Russian Federation; of course, they were often stopped by the police and checked, but that was normal.

[optimistkarus]

Chechens live in Chechnya, but in Artsakh there is no other nation, Armenians belong to them, Azerbaijanis belong to them.

[Alexey RA]

Quote: Rumata

Very bad. Whatever it is, the police in Artsakh should be made up of local Armenians.

Yeah... and then this police will expand, turn into a militia - and everything will start all over again.
Recruiting law enforcement agencies on a national-territorial basis is a direct path to nationalism and separatism. This has already happened in both the USSR and Yugoslavia.

[opposite28]

Yeah... and then this police will expand, turn into a militia - and everything will start all over again.
Recruiting law enforcement agencies on a national-territorial basis is a direct path to nationalism and separatism. This has already happened in both the USSR and Yugoslavia.

For example, in Transnistria the president of the republic is a former police general...

[Sergej1972]

Public security police, such as PPS and DPS, in the vast majority of countries in the world are formed from local residents.

[Rumata]

Quote: Alexey RA

and then this police will expand, turn into a militia

We compared.))) Big Azerbaijan and tiny Artsakh, which can easily be kept under strict control.

[Rumata]

Quote: Alexey RA

Recruitment of law enforcement agencies on a territorial basis......

.....generally accepted all over the world.

[pavel.typingmail.com]

What happened to Nagorno-Karabakh was what should have happened to Crimea and Donbass, according to the plans of the Ukrainian authorities.

[carpenter]

Quote from pavel.tipingmail.com

What happened to Nagorno-Karabakh was what should have happened to Crimea and Donbass, according to the plans of the Ukrainian authorities.

The “Artsakh Project” was not invented by Armenia, but by the Armenian diasporas located outside of Armenia at the instigation of the United States and its allies. Karabakh became a purulent abscess, since the West played its game there, and Armenia itself does not play a global role either geopolitically or economically. In such a situation, Artsakh interfered with Russia, Turkey, Iran and of course Azerbaijan. Now everything has fallen into place, Karabakh has become the territory of Azerbaijan, Armenia has become as it was, a small regional republic that does not play any role on the world stage. Moreover, it is economically completely dependent on Russia.
Today, at Pashinyan’s request, Putin had a conversation with him (if Putin doesn’t want to talk to someone, like Zelensky and Macron, he doesn’t pick up the phone).

[Silver99]

Why are Armenians fleeing Karabakh? Are they being shot en masse in public squares or are they being deported? Maybe they remembered how they themselves treated the Azerbaijanis in 1991-92 and tried it on themselves? There are no bad peoples, and if the laws of Azerbaijan are observed, nothing threatens them. I have not heard that any nationalities were oppressed in modern Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan, unlike Armenia, is multinational. I am writing this not in someone’s defense, but based on the fact of existence.

[Mikhail Ivanov]

Yeah, nothing threatens... Since they could not protect their land, it means now it is no longer their land and those who were able to take this land will live there.
I advise you to review and re-read the events of the first Karabakh war, then there was still the USSR and no one could have expected this... And now a number of Armenian politicians have gone down in history as capitulators. Everyone will soon forget how Pashinyan walked around the squares with a backpack. And the fact that he leaked Artsakh will always be remembered. We had such a Khrushchev, who gave Crimea to Ukraine.

[Silver99]

What do you suggest I learn from the revised? The conflict is over, the President of Armenia recognized Azerbaijan’s right over Karabakh, Azerbaijan is introducing police (not punitive forces), I repeat, I have not heard of oppression of national minorities in Azerbaijan. Now I will advise you (well, since you like to give advice) to name me at least one leader of a rural settlement or city in Armenia who is not Armenian? This is a 100% mono state.

[carpenter]

Quote: Mikhail-Ivanov

Since they were unable to defend their land, it means that now it is no longer their land and those who were able to take this land will live there.

But somehow they lived peacefully in Azerbaijan until 1994, and they could have continued to live.

[Alexey RA]

Quote: carpenter

But somehow they lived peacefully in Azerbaijan until 1994, and they could have continued to live.

Yeah...they lived quietly - like the Abkhazians and South Ossetians in Georgia.
As long as the central government was strong, interethnic conflicts were extinguished and “swept under the rug.” As soon as she weakened, the bloody wheel began to roll...
Karabakh has been on fire since 1987. Fights, shooting, squeezing out Azerbaijanis. After the Sumgait events, pogroms of Azerbaijanis began in Karabakh. In 1989, the regional council decided to withdraw from Azerbaijan. In 1990, a state of emergency was declared in the joint-stock company and the forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (including from among Azerbaijanis) were introduced. The result is that the conflict was not only extinguished, but taken to a new level. A guerrilla war began, which escalated into full-fledged hostilities. Both sides actively formed illegal armed groups, the number of which, according to their statements, on each side reached 12-15 thousand people.
In 1991, the army and Azerbaijani riot police joined the conflict, deportations of Armenians began... but after the Putsch, Moscow forgot about Karabakh - there was no time for that. Both sides immediately formed national armies and began full-fledged combined arms operations. This war only ended in 1994.

[carpenter]

Quote: Mikhail-Ivanov

And the fact that he leaked Artsakh will always be remembered. We had such a Khrushchev, who gave Crimea to Ukraine.

Did Pashinyan leak Artsakh? Here, when it’s good to dig, a lot of things come up where not everything is so simple, but even in some things Pashinyan is right that Artsakh did not recognize.

[tihonmarine]

Quote: carpenter

, but even in some things Pashinyan is right that Artsakh did not recognize.

There’s one thing I don’t understand - “why didn’t the United States and its allies recognize Artsakh?”
After all, for the States, Artsakh is like Kosovo, everything is one to one. And recognition of Artsakh would make it pro-Western and joining Azerbaijan would be impossible.

[pharmacist]

Why should the States and allies recognize Artsakh? They are not guided by the law or humanism, but purely by profit. Azerbaijan is oil, Turkey, which stands behind it, is a NATO member, and a capricious and capricious one. Armenia has nothing to offer them except a headache.

[carpenter]

Quote from Pharmacist

Why should the States and allies recognize Artsakh? They are not guided by the law or humanism, but purely by profit.

By recognizing Artsakh, the United States could make its presence there.

[Blackmokona]

Quote: carpenter

Quote from Pharmacist

Why should the States and allies recognize Artsakh? They are not guided by the law or humanism, but purely by profit.

By recognizing Artsakh, the United States could make its presence there.

Armenia was in the CSTO, an ally of Russia. She was confident that Russia would fight for their interests, so any promises from the United States sounded ridiculous.

[Foul skeptic]

I haven’t heard that in modern Azerbaijan

Then maybe you can explain why it was necessary to destroy the ancient Armenian cemetery, which is a UNESCO cultural heritage site 20 years ago? That is, already in the 21st century. National discord is a terrible thing. And now it has not passed us (Russians and Ukrainians) either. Unfortunately.

[Silver99]

You answered your own question. There was a single Power where they didn’t bother about what nationality you were, apparently that’s how they won the Second World War, as soon as, at the instigation of thieving local elites, they remembered their ancient roots and nationalism clouded their minds.

[decimalegio]

Because every Armenian and every Azerbaijani thinks that they arrived in this area before others. Therefore, we must destroy everything that contradicts the generally accepted opinion and strengthens our opinion. Unfortunately, when history is subordinated to the political needs of the moment, these are the consequences.

[A17ttt]

I would like to ask - what is this resource pursuing by posting this news?

I’m not asking out of nowhere, because... there is a reason for this.
For example, on another information resource there was news that

The President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Samvel Shahramanyan signed a decree on the termination of the existence of the state. The unrecognized republic will cease to exist until January 1, 2024.

[media=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6239337]

So, with such input data, is it worthwhile to insert (specifically) information about the police from Azerbaijan?

[Seal]

Quote: Mikhail-Ivanov

And the fact that he leaked Artsakh will always be remembered. We had such a Khrushchev, who gave Crimea to Ukraine.

If comrades Lenin and Stalin once decided that Crimea is the RSFSR, and Karabakh is Azerbaijan, then so be it. There is no need to audit the decisions of the leaders. This will not lead to anything good. One bald opportunist voluntarist tried to engage in revisionism and handed over Crimea to Ukraine. And what ? But the fact is that nothing good came out of it and Crimea still returned home to Russia.
Across Karabakh.
Let me remind you that we, Russia, from the very beginning, since 1992, have consistently and invariably recognized Azerbaijan within its internationally recognized borders. That is, with Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan. This was our demand to all Armenian leaders to solve the Karabakh problem. We have never given anyone any reason to doubt this fundamental position of ours. The only thing we wanted was for the problem to be resolved without bloodshed.
But the Armenians, as well as many of our compatriots, for some reason preferred to listen not to the official statements of our authorized persons (President, Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs...), but to all sorts of Bagdasarov and Zatulins. Who fed the Armenians fairy tales that Russia supposedly only verbally recognizes Azerbaijan within its internationally recognized borders, but in reality Russia supposedly supported, supports and will support the Armenians.
Pashinyan is simply the first of the Armenian leaders to realize that we are not joking about the issue of Karabakh’s ownership. All the previous ones simply did not take this demand of ours seriously.
Although... the first was probably Levon Ter-Petrosyan. But after his “epiphany,” his own people quickly removed him from the post of President of Armenia.
If it were not for Russia’s firm and consistent position on the issue of Karabakh’s ownership, then no Turkish assistance to Azerbaijan would make sense.

[Seal]

Quote: Nefarious skeptic

Then maybe you can explain what was the need to destroy the ancient Armenian cemetery

Apparently, they are following the example of Alexei Petrovich

In the city of Tiflis itself, some changes began to occur. The streets were widened as much as possible by the destruction of buildings that were threatening to fall, squares were established and both government and some private buildings, better than the previous ones, were erected. I ordered the destruction of the dilapidated and useless city walls in order to connect the suburb, on which, out of habit of fearing previous disturbances, the inhabitants did not want to settle. There was the most terrible murmur against me in the city and my actions were called whimsical. So they scolded me for the old Armenian cemetery, located in the best part of the city, which I ordered to turn into a square, but in this square, less than two weeks later, well-placed illumination, staged music and song books attracted a lot of people, and those who blamed me were no longer dissatisfied with my order. One can hope that the city will take on a different appearance, and even this could soon follow if the local nobility were not extremely confused in their affairs and very poor.

[Foul skeptic]

Apparently, they are following the example of Alexei Petrovich

Hardly. The cemetery near Julfa was located in an uninhabited area. And since the destruction, nothing has been built on this square. And besides the cemetery, there are at least two dozen (at least, since the most ancient and famous ones are simply heard) Armenian churches. The story of honoring Safarov and lifelong banning of Ibragimov from football are just grains that simply became known due to resonance in a series of general atmosphere of hatred. So the Armenians of the former NKR have no illusions about the possibility of further coexistence with the Azerbaijanis. There is no USSR.