Armenian Foreign Ministry stands in support for Russian-Israeli blog  writer Alexander Lapshin 

ArmInfo. Armenian Foreign Ministry stands in support for Russian- Israeli blog writer Alexander Lapshin arrested by Belarusian authorities on Baku's demand, Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia Shavarsh Kocharyan told journalists on  January 19 after the government's session. According to the Deputy  Minister it is difficult to forecast how the issue will be solved as  Aliyev's regime actions contradict to the international law. 

"Obviously, this is a harsh violation of the norms of international  law both in the context of free movement of citizens and freedom of  speech. At the moment international structures and states have  already reacted.  Let us see how the situation will develop",  Kocharyan noted.

To remind, in the middle of December the citizen of the Russian  Federation Alexander Lapshin has been arrested in the Republic of  Belarus with the purpose of extradition on the demand of Azerbaijan  for visiting Nagorno-Karabakh and making notes about those  visitations in his blog. Lapshin is included in Azerbaijan's black  list for visiting Karabakh and he was forbidden to enter Azerbaijan.   However, in June 2015 Lapshin arrived in Azerbaijan via Georgia with  his Ukrainian passport. After that Azerbaijan put him on wanted list  for violation of the law on state border and migration code of the  country.  General Prosecutor's Office of Belarus informed earlier  that the issue of extraditing Lapshin to Azerbaijan is being studied  but no decision has been made yet.  

To note, Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister stated at the  annual press conference in Moscow, commenting the detention of  Russian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin in Minsk due to  Azerbaijan's request for his visit to Nagorno Karabakh. "Russia is  against criminalization of journalists or simply private persons  visiting any region", he said. "Second, we are against extradition of  Russian nationals arrested in any country, to third countries. We had  consular contact with Lapshin, we know that he is also an Israeli  citizen and Israeli diplomats had contact with him as well. We will  take all the steps to solve this situation within the respect to all  the rights of Russian citizen, which is also an Israeli citizen,"  Lavrov accentuated.