The Russian Foreign Ministry will study the inquiry of parliamentarians on denouncing the Moscow Treaty of Friendship and Brotherhood with Turkey signed on March 16, 1921, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said, according to TASS.

"Indeed, the Russian Foreign Ministry has received a query from State Duma members proposing to denounce the treaty," Maria Zakharova said Wednesday, February 10, as she answered a question on the impact of the move on Russia’s relations with Azerbaijan.

"I can tell you that at this stage the inquiry should be carefully studied."

Valery Rashkin and Sergei Obukhov from the Communist Party faction propose annulling the treaty, signed on March 16, 1921, by the government of Soviet Russia (RSFSR) and the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

We should consider a legal review of all Russian-Turkish agreements that are unfavorable for our country and its allies, Obukhov said. According to him, Ankara must understand what the escalation of conflict could be fraught with.

The newspaper notes that under the treaty "the former Kars region and the southern part of the former Batumi region that were part of the Russian Empire since 1878 as well as former Surmalin district of Erivan Governorate that formed part of the Russian Empire since 1828 with Mount Ararat were ceded to Turkey."