As NEWS.am reported earlier, on August 13-16, Armenian sportsman Ashot Danielyan (74 kg) participated in an international sambo tournament for the prize of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, held in Uralsk (Kazakhstan) and took the first place.

Recently, the Azerbaijani mass media published an article with a pompous headline “Another falsification of Armenian media exposed,” saying Azerbaijan’s embassy in Kazakhstan investigated the reports on Armenian Internet resources about the victory of the “citizen of Nagorno Karabakh Republic” Ashot Danielyan at the international sambo competition in Uralsk, Kazakhstan.

The embassy said according to the report of the Ministry of Tourism and Culture of Kazakhstan Ashot Danielyan represented Armenia and attended the competition under the Armenian flag.

In this regard, Armenian Sambo Federation recalls Ashot Danileyan, born in NKR capital Stepanakert, represented Armenia and participated in the competition under the Armenian flag.

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In 1993 Russian Kstovo hosted Sambo World Cup and Italian Turin-Sambo European Championship. Nagorno-Karabakh was represented by its own teams in both tournaments and NKR flag waved 14 times on the victory stand.