Azerbaijan Can't Defy Wikipedia

The book “Conflicts and wars after the collapse of USSR” has been republished thanks to the efforts of the Armenian community of Ukraine and ANALITIKA.at.ua information-analytical center in particular. In the new edition of the book no distortion about the history of Armenia and the Nagorno Karabakh Republic is observed. Reportedly, T Y. Bogdanovich, and A. Ya. Manachinsky, the authors of the edition, had included articles with false information about Armenia.

As ANALITIKA.at.ua website informs that the city libraries of Odessa have already received the republished versions of the book. In the coming month the Ukrain's bookshops will increasingly receive the new books as well about Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh.

Armenian youth organizations of all over Ukraine alongside with ANALITIKA.at.ua information-analytical centre will promote to the implementation of this activity.

The officials in Azerbaijan are quite disappointed over this as their efforts to fabricate the historic facts are systematically failing. A new reason for disappointment was observed yesterday in one of the well-known websites of Azerbaijan Bakililar.az. This time Azeris are complaining against Wikipedia.

For example, they are surprised that Nagorno Karabakh Republic is named Artsakh at the mentioned website. They are just bewildered: “Azerbaijani officials must undertake corresponding steps…prior to the conditions these steps may be of different kinds as diplomatic, public or scientific interventions.

In Azerbaijan, they themselves accept the lack of corresponding specialists in the state. As an expert on international relations in one of US universities Elhan Agamirzaev says, it is useless to address a letter to the Wikipedia management as the articles of that on-line encyclopaedia are written and posted on the basis of facts collected all over the world .“This method admits to get more objective information through discussions and comparison of different opinions, as to Azerbaijani side it has no mechanism to work with Wikipedia”

The whole point of the mechanism is to prove the credibility of the introduced facts.

“State officials are better to exert efforts aimed at this issue rather than directly to the on-line published materials. Otherwise Azerbaijan will lose the information war”, an expert from Azerbaijan notes.

Source “Aravot” daily