December 3, 2004 - 21:05 AMT
BAKU AFRAID OF "EXPORT OF REVOLUTIONS" TO ITS TERRITORY, RUSSIAN NEWSPAPER WRITES
The transport war between Azerbaijan and Georgia has little to do with the Armenian-Azeri conflict. As reported by Novie Izvestia Russian newspaper, this is the opinion of Azeri analysts. According to them, Russia, discontent with the policy pursued by Mikhail Saakashvili, is trying to exert pressure on Georgia via Azerbaijan, and she has been successful in it as Baku is cautious towards Saakashvili: his coming to power is the result of a revolution. If in Tbilisi the events, which took place on November 23, 2003 and ended with President's Shevarnadze's resignation, are called "rose revolution", so in Baku it stated as a coup d'etat, the source says. Today, after the latest developments in Ukraine, Baku is afraid of "export of revolutions" to its territory, the newspaper writes.