There is a popular saying in Azerbaijani: “It’s so absurd it would make a cooked chicken laugh” or, in its English alternative,"when pigs fly". Listening to statements from Russian officials, one cannot help but recall this expression. The latest remarks by Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk regarding the TRIPP project (or the Zangezur Corridor) are no exception.

Overchuk claimed that recent regional agreements have "disrupted the regional balance that has existed since the 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay."

It is difficult to comprehend this Russian obsession with historical stagnation. The world is evolving at breakneck speed, yet a Deputy Prime Minister speaks with pride about a 200-year-old status quo as if freezing time were a diplomatic achievement. Someone should remind Mr Overchuk that when the Treaty of Turkmenchay was signed in 1828, the world was just discovering the steam locomotive. Today, we are discussing Artificial Intelligence and space colonisation. Russia, however, praises a world order from two centuries ago. One wonders why they stopped at 1828 - why not go back to the era of the dinosaurs? In geopolitics, the only constant is change. History is littered with empires that either adapted to change or were swept into the dustbin of history.

Moving further, Overchuk indirectly........

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