About the publication “Karabakh without cuts”

Why there will be no discussion on this topic in Novaya Gazeta

I consider it impossible for unilateral opinions on the situation around Karabakh to appear on the pages and website of Novaya Gazeta, such as “Karabakh without cuts”.

The editors removed it from the site, but in the paper version this mistake of ours is now forever.

The authors representing the side of the conflict expressly approve of the use of weapons, freely quoting international documents. And the editors, instead of studying the situation through the eyes of only their correspondents, give the floor to one side, and even invite them to a discussion.

I love both countries.

I was in Baku during the introduction of troops and saw innocent victims and the capture of the television center by a group of the KGB of the USSR. I saw Sumgayit and would like to forget it, but if I tell you at least something, you will never forget it either.

I remember well how the intelligentsia of Baku and Yerevan ignited the conflict of peoples, looking for evidence of who had previously mastered the land of Karabakh.

My comrade Akram then said: “How much you need to love your land in order to kill other people’s children for its sake!”

I apologize for the editorial error. Sorry.

And there will be no "kerosene" discussion. We cancel it. Because now there are only negotiations about peace and alleviation of the lot of the living and the dead.

A negotiating table is better than a funeral table.

And if the current politicians are not able to stop in mutual extermination, pass the question on to the next generations.

Maybe they'll be smarter after all.

Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta