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It has been a while since the authorities in Azerbaijan have been trying to present the critical articles, published in Western prestigious outlets about the corruption of the ruling regime, as ‘the order of the Armenian lobby.’ The situation has reached to a point where the authorities in Azerbaijan claim that the US president Barack Obama is ‘controlled by the Armenian lobby’, and the opposition of the country is ‘funded by the Armenians and get grants from them,’ Azerbaijani newspaper Azadlig writes.

However, as a result we get quite a controversial picture: from the upper echelons of power to the MPs, the officials in Azerbaijan unanimously convince that ‘Armenia is starving,’ and the governmental TV channels claim, “Armenia is on the edge of utter poverty.” Hence, according to the logic of the Azerbaijani authorities, ‘Armenia, moribund in hunger and poverty,’ rules over the whole world and funds a number of well-known international organizations. Moreover, adhering to such position, Azerbaijani authorities unwittingly confess that they lose Armenia in foreign politics, the newspaper writes.

Now, as Azadlig has it, ahead of the European Games, the Azerbaijani authorities have made up a new way to justify the crackdowns on their own citizens, apparently realizing at last that the ‘Armenian version’ already comes to be overtly ridiculous to the population. Apart from the accusations addressed to Armenia and Armenian lobby, the authorities have set on spreading the thesis of ‘Islamophobia’. So, according to the new version, the criticism in the foreign press is ‘the result of the Islamophobia of the West and the activities of the anti-Islamic circles.’

According to the new tactics of the authorities, the prestigious outlets of Germany, the UK, France, the US, as well as international organizations speak out against Azerbaijan only out of anti-Islamic motives, the article reads. Nonetheless, even this rhetoric contains obvious controversy: the girls are not allowed to go to school in hijabs because of the ban of the Azerbaijani authorities, and well-known theologians in Azerbaijan are behind bars on trumped-up charges together with the political prisoners.

Summing up, Azadlig concludes that the present authorities in Azerbaijan are ready to call the whole world their enemy just to go on with their politics of robbing the population and violating the human rights in the country.

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