When it comes to Russians: "Aliyev outsourced certain segments of power to the British"

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has outsourced some segments of power to the British and Ukrainians, political analyst Ugur Mammadov, who monitors the situation in Azerbaijan, believes.

He noted that yesterday, December 24, on Ilham Aliyev's birthday, he "quite calmly received congratulations from Vladimir Putin" — "no visible signs of a furious interstate conflict."

At the same time, as the expert notes, there is an active media anti-Russian campaign in Azerbaijan in parallel. Mammadov believes that this is done with the permission of the country's authorities.

"I would venture to assume that Ilham Aliyev outsourced certain segments of power and certain tools to Ukrainians and the Europeans (British) behind them. This is clearly seen in other media narratives in Azerbaijan. The only epic fail directly related to British interests — the incident with the contamination of oil with organochlorine — was amicably put on the brakes by almost all Azerbaijani media. Most likely, Aliyev's people have the opportunity to influence the media policy of quite a few Baku mouthpieces, but they do not consider it necessary to do so when it comes to attacks on Russians," he writes in the Ugur Mammadov telegram channel.

And for the rest, the expert is sure, "many media resources, especially social networks, are directly controlled by British PR people and the CIP of Ukraine."