There is a crisis between Baku and Moscow, and Margot Simonyan's nose is sticking out of it again

The events in Yekaterinburg – or rather, those who orchestrated them – have provoked another aggravation in Azerbaijani-Russian relations. But now it's not about the crisis or the events themselves: let’s talk about a strange episode that happened yesterday.

After a wave of indignation erupted in the Azerbaijani media and among public organizations, a statement from a so-called “Azerbaijani Diaspora in Russia” appeared in Russian news feeds.

In its statement, this “Azerbaijani Diaspora” acted as if its office were located not just in the Kremlin, but practically next door.

The “Azerbaijanis” repeated almost verbatim the talking points currently being pushed by Margarita Simonyan and the media outlets under her control. Isn’t that odd?

This "diaspora" has no known address, no office, and no representatives. The only thing it does have is an unnamed Telegram channel with 3,000 subscribers.

The Azerbaijani State Committee on Work with Diaspora explicitly labeled the organization as fake, but Simonyan’s network of media outlets and Telegram dumps began to widely replicate the “statement.”

Simonyan waited a day, and then, having received her instructions from the Old Square, she got to work.

They invented it themselves, spread it themselves, and then read it themselves.

What’s even more troubling is the shortsightedness of those pulling Margarita’s strings. It is precisely because of attack dogs like Simonyan, Solovyov, and others that the Russian Federation is so quickly turning recent friends into adversaries.

All by yourself. Only yourselves to blame.