I'm here with Alexander Merkiris and joining us once again on the Duran is Stanislav.

Stanislav, how are you doing?

Where can people follow your work?

Oh, good.

Yeah, so you can either follow me on YouTube, Mr. Slavic man, that's with a K, not a C, or

Telegram, that's Stastoday Abratna, the Russian language channel and Stasso there is the English

channel and I do have an X account that I'm starting to build up on just under Stascarpivnik.

Okay.

All right, so Alexander Stanislav, let's talk about the developments between Azerbaijan and Russia. Alexander. Absolutely. I mean, this is a topic that's attracting a huge amount of attention. Now, Stanislav has actually been there. He knows Azerbaijan. I have never been to Azerbaijan. But we have on the Duran already done a program about

this. I suggest that organized crime is playing a major role in the whole affair, both in terms of

the gang that has been sorted out, if I could put it like that, by the Russian authorities and the

Caucasus, and in terms of

the reaction from the Azerbaijanian authorities, that I understand that this is a country

where organized crime has a very, very significant political and social role. But it's likely

that there are also geopolitical factors and economic factors. So somebody who

knows the country and has been there, Stani Slav can tell us more. So Stalyslav, over to you. What are your

initial thoughts about this situation? Well, as my background, when I was director of supply chain for Halliburton, Eurasia,

Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan was one of my country, so I spent quite a bit of time over the two and a half

years there.

It was also one of my favorite places because all the oil is on the north side of the peninsula

and you drive over the sp of the peninsula and you're in Baku and you can relax in a city in the evening,

as opposed to most places are very far away from any kind of civilization.

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