August 27, 2013 - 16:00 AMT
Azerbaijan may blacklist Anna Chapman over Karabakh visit

Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry has instructed the embassy in Russia to investigate information about the visit of a number of Russian public figures to the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, APA said.

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Elman Abdullayev told APA that if the fact of the visit is confirmed, those who visited Karabakh , will be included in the “persona non grata” list.

At the invitation of a Moscow-based Armenia-Russia cooperation organization, a group of Russian journalists and public figures are visiting Karabakh. The delegation includes former Russian intelligence officer Anna Chapman, member of Russian Public Chamber Denis Dvornikov and others.

As the members of the delegation told PanARMENIAN.Net commenting on the info above, the news can cause nothing but laughter. “It’s not even provincialism, it’s much worse,” they said.