Comments by "SantomPh" (@SantomPh) on "KGB Encounters In Azerbaijan 🇦🇿" video.

  1. i'm worried they won't let him in with the Azerbaijan stamp in his passport (unless it is detachable)
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  2. he is nowhere near Baku, can't be for the tournament
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  3. Azeri is just a dialect of Turkish, after all
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  4. Russian was made an optional subject in school over a decade ago, and people outiside of the big cities don't speak it at all since the government ordered all official events and items to be in Azeri. There are places with strong Russian speaking populations like at the border and I believe it is compulsory for police and military officers to learn it. Unlike many ex USSR members and satellites Azerbaijan hated the Soviet cloak and threw it off as soon as possible, since their oil industry supported their new economy. Armenia on the other hand lost access to the coast and is still dependent on Russia for a lot of things given that most of their neighbors are not that friendly (Azerbaijan and Turkey hate them, Georgia is wary of Russia etc). Hence Bald will have no problem speaking Russian in Armenia. Russia in fact has the most Armenians outside of Armenia.
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  5. he is going to Armenia via Georgia- anyone who has been to Armenia can never enter Azerbaijan.
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  6. national security policeman.
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  7. it can be Haidar Hyder Hidyr Heyder etc. Remember Azeri is a Turkic language so the vowels are different
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  8. he might say something horrible. better not to try without an actual guide. That is why he asks locals the basic greetings first in Russian.
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  9. search. it is in the video archive
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  10. Azerbaijan is not an Arabic speaking country
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  11. he is a national security agent, like FBI or KGB
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  12. Nagorno Kharabakh. the biggest facepalm in Caucasus history
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  13. he became president after the fall of the USSR
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  14. he has been there. Do you not watch all of his videos?
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  15. Azeri is part of the same Oghuz family of languages Turkish is in
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  16. that is for more intellectual and more well-funded channels
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  17. Azerbaijan is not really dependent on Russia for anything so links are not as strong. While there is still an ethnic Russian population and Russian is spoken in Baku, Azeri is the only official language in Azerbaijan with Russian now degraded to optional status in schools. Apart from Georgia the other countries you mentioned have good links with Russia and somewhat depend on it for technological and economic support. As you might have seen in Bald's Georgia videos, Russian is not spoken by everyone, especially outside Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The Georgians also rather dislike the Russian government.
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  18. do they? show some proof. of your narrowmindedness
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  19. why are you on a no fly list?
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  20. he can't type or read Azeri, can he?
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  21. the state farms were never owned by people before collectivization.
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  22. all Muslim countries know that phrase.
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  23. the CaucaSUS. A caucus is a poll type of election
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  24. the INS and overzealous local sherrifs and militia are also non democratic?
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