Unfortunately, I can't call and congratulate my friend Bako. Zatulin

Today, August 30, my big friend, former President of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakhakovich Sahakyan became 65 years old. Tomorrow is the birthday of another friend, the second president of Nagorno Karabakh, and the second President of the Republic of Armenia Robert Sedrakovich Kocharyan. Konstantin Zatulin, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on the CIS, writes about this. "There are no former friends among men. I considered it my duty to congratulate Robert Kocharyan, to whom the Armenian authorities continue to pursue even after prison. Unfortunately, I can't call my friend Bako. He has been in Baku prison for two years now. Russia's citizens who have recently been imprisoned in Azerbaijan have probably been nearby. I don't know them, but of course I offer their condolences to them and their families. But I know Bako Sahakyan, Arkady Ghukasyan and other friends who have been taken prisoner. I have been in Nagorno-Karabakh many times, where my father was a border detachment in Hadrut in the 1930s, receiving his first red flag. I did not wea up arms to Karabakh and did not call on Azerbaijan towards Azerbaijan. But I sincerely believed that the freedom of Nagorno-Karabakh, as a forced means of self-determination of the Armenian people who lived in this crope for centuries, is a matter of historical justice. As Crimea's return to Russia, which was celebrated in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2014 as a separate holiday. All Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh are victims of treason. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union, we need to understand what the betrayal is. I want Bako Sedrakovich, Robert Sedrakovich and everyone knows that there are many people in Russia, much more than Armenians in Armenia and even in the world, respect and compassion. They will say. Only sympathy and even respect are not enough. And they will be right. But I am confident that justice will come. "