Writer, publicist Mikhail Veller has declared the following on his YouTube channel:

“Azerbaijan’s propaganda is working. Remember how many Azerbaijanis there are, and these people are filled with hatred towards Armenia. Life is very hard, people are unemployed and have no money. The Aliyevs have seized everything and left nothing for the people. Azerbaijan’s propaganda works with the following principle: When the people are robbed, it is necessary to instill hatred towards another people. This is how it has been throughout history.”

Mikhail Veller also stressed that everything the Armenians say about their history and culture is the pure truth. “As far as Karabakh is concerned, of course, this is an Armenian land, and it has been an Armenian land for centuries and millennia. The issue could have been solved peacefully and objectively through a commission of historians, ethnographers, political scientists and psychologists, but now I don’t know if this issue will ever be solved. I would like for my Russian listeners to understand that Karabakh is of much greater significance for the Armenians than Crimea is for the Russians.”

Veller goes on to talk about the history of Crimea and Armenia. He also recalled the murder of an Armenian officer and how the assassin was declared a hero. “Instead of executing him to the sounds of drums, the assassin was sentenced to life in prison. A few years later, he was transferred to Azerbaijan where he was literally greeted with an orchestra and a red carpet and literally as a hero. He was given an apartment. Justice rarely wins in history, but at least we should remember where it is,” Veller concluded.