Russia may refuse to accept trains and planes from Azerbaijan — MP

Konstantin Zatulin, first deputy head of the Russian State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, said that Russia may react to the "renaming" of Russian cities by Azerbaijan and refuse to accept planes and trains from there.

"As for the renaming of Russian cities and geographical concepts that Azerbaijan decided to carry out in retaliation, I wish him success. The only thing is that in this situation we are unlikely to be able to receive trains and planes from Azerbaijan if the destination is written there as they have decided now," Zatulin said on RTVI.

Earlier, the Russian state agency TASS in a publication about the demolition of the monument to the artist Ivan Aivazovsky in Stepanakert replaced this name with Karabakh, as requested by the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry. For the fact that the Russian media used the name Stepanakert, and not the Azerbaijani version of Khankendi, the Azerbaijani media began to take revenge — to write in their notes not Kaliningrad, but Konigsberg, not Orenburg, but Orynbor.