...Azerbaijani prisons “I, Maxim Sherifov, from the village of Zukhrabkent, lived in the village of Samur, Magaramkent district, worked as an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Makhachkala. Now I am retired and go in for winter swimming. By the way, I am the champion of the western coast of the Caspian Sea in winter swimming and the champion of Makhachkala in summer long-distance sea swimming without insurance.

Author of the article “Whose city is Derbent?” a certain Lezgin patriot Gyadzhizkhva ChIudhuri (“Cheka” No. 34 of September 2, 2005), in his righteous anger against the “Baku libel writers” and “Turkic chauvinists,” goes to such extremes and allows such odious interpretations of the historical past that he himself, perhaps , can be described as a chauvinist.