That is sure a problem. But it can be avoided if Azerbaijan joins the Eurasian union. Than Russia will make pressure upon Armenia to give the occupied land back to Azeris. Russians and Azeris was a great union in Soviet times. It can be like that again. The west is not your countries friend. Your turkic brothers the Turks also have just their own benefits in mind. I saw how they put Azeri flags into a trash can, when soccer game between turkey and armenia was played. Erdogan don´t wanted to disturb his armenian guests.
Russian authorities would never allow such barbarity.
In contrast to what common people might think, the Azerbaijani elite has very good relations with Russia in contrast to Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict, ... Many Azerbaijani businessman even from Aliyev family and other important and notable Azerbaijani elite families live and have business in Russia. Even a couple of my maternal family live in Russia and have businesses in oil industry. Most of the elites can speak Russian fluently, ... So, we don't have some deep animosity between each other. There is one problem, which is very important, and it is Karabagh conflict. This Karabagh problem is prolonged too much and needs to be solved. We, South Caucasian people, are very cultured people, and don't seek to massacre each other in the 21st century, and don't have wet dreams about ruling each other like middle-eastern people. Russia needs to be more active in political scene and try to make peace, then we can boost relations much more and have more trust on Russia. Russia should not take sides, and I believe that she can play this role. About Turkey, They are our blood brethren, and we like their people but they have chosen a very wrong and dangerous path, which is involving in Middle-East and dreaming for a new ottoman system, as Davutoglu has already told this before as "New-Ottomanism". They would finally end up like an another Iran without oil, if they continue these policies. Anyway, I believe that Azerbaijan should have a neutral and friendly relation with all of her important neighbors, and keep having business with all of them.
@rmi5
This is the third time that you have referred to Azerbaijan's supposed amount of funds, without even having a clue. Annual oil income aside, the country has $60 billion in its oil fond alone, a figure which increases annually. Azerbaijan is not rich on the level of gulf Arabs, but still it has enough funds for its size. I mean your logic does not make any sense, given that Azerbaijan's military spenditure will not decrease, but only increase, one cannot talk about toning down the arms purchases, actually the very exact opposite. Azerbaijan will hold its first defence exhibiton in two months, much of the military ambitions lies ahead. And btw, I don't have any intention to talk about this with you, you seem to enjoy every bit of discussion about smallest things.
And it perhaps would help you to learn that the Mi-35M are bought by Border Guards, a different organization from the Ministry of Defence. So the Air Force, which the Ministry of Defence is responsible for, might very well have plans for separate procurement of attack helicopters.
Azerbaijan budget for purchasing arms is around 3-4 billion dollars at most. Azerbaijan is in a serious need to upgrade her air force, which is too weak. Even if we spend all of this budget for air force, it would take about 8-10 years just to build a top notch air force. We definitely have good oil revenue, but it is not unlimited, and government needs to carefully spend it on tons of different stuff. Azerbaijan is not like Saudi Arabia or UAE. So far, Azerbaijan government has done a good job in reducing poverty, increasing GDP, and providing some of the best military equipments from different countries with reasonable prices. The trend needs to be continued, with involving all of the interested countries in our market and keep them competitive to achieve their own share from our market.
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