Azerbaijan iri kuisa kambani yeKremlin pakutongwa

Fungidzira imwe oligarch yakagadzirwa neRussia yakaiswa parachuti kuita nyika yenhema inogara zvisiri pamutemo nharaunda yeimwe nyika kuti itore hutongi hwayo kuKremlin. Fungidzira mumwechete uyu oligarch - zita remadunhurirwa rekuti "Putin's Wallet" - akatemerwa chirango neUkraine nekutsigira kwake kurwisa kwemauto eRussia nyika iyoyo, uye kambani yake yemauto yakatemerwa neUnited States, Britain, uye EU yekugovera midziyo kuuto reRussia. Zvino fungidzira kuti oligarch akazovharirwa nehurumende pane yaitonga nyika iyo yenhema yakanga yashanda kwemakore anopfuura makumi matatu. Nei US neEurope dzisiri kuombera mhosva yake, anonyora Taras Kuzio.

Russia inoshandisa nzira dzakafanana, mushure mezvose, muUkraine inogarwa. MaRussia oligarchs nemakurukota ehurumende vakatumwa kuti vafambise matunhu akagarwa eUkraine - Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya, uye Kherson - vakamirira Kremlin se "macurators" - Sergey Kiriyenko, anochengetedza hutongi hwezvematongerwo enyika hweKremlin pamusoro penzvimbo idzi, Alexander Malsegandaesn ruzivo uye Sergei Malsegandaestsy. anodzora mapurisa nemabasa epachivande. Pamwe chete vanomanikidza hudzvanyiriri hweRussia hwefascist kuUkraine yakatorwa, kudzvinyirira vagari venzvimbo, kudzinga vana uye kubvisa huwori hwakawanda sezvavanogona ivo nevakuru vavo vematsotsi.

Asi ngatitarisei chokwadi pamusoro peArmenian-Russian oligarch Ruben Vardanyan.

Makore makumi matatu apfuura nyika yenhema, sezvo USSR yakanga ichiparara, yakagadzirwa neArmenia - nerubatsiro rweRussia - kuburikidza nekutora kwemauto kwechikamu chimwe chete muzvishanu chenharaunda yakazvimirira yemuvakidzani wayo, Azerbaijan. Nekukurumidza kusvika 2022 uye, nekuguma kwenyika zvisiri pamutemo kwave kuonekwa, Kremlin yakatumira oligarch aivimbwa naye, Vardanyan, kuti atore hutungamiriri hwayo hweArmenia hwakakundikana netariro yekurebesa kuvepo kwayo.

Vardanyan aigamuchirwa nebasa iri nekuti akavaka humambo hwake hwebhizinesi muRussia 'Wild East' muma1990s uye ane chikwereti chake chemabhiriyoni ekuita basa rehupfumi hweKremlin. Masevhisi eRussia ane simba akavanzika akange aunganidza humbowo hwehuori hwake se kompromat (compromising materials) zvakamuita gofer wavo. Vardanyan aigamuchirwawo kune avo vari munzvimbo yemanyepo yaakatora kutonga nekuti iye pachake dzinza reArmenia. Akagamuchirwa kune vanopikisa-Russian vanopikisa muArmenia avo vaimuona semotokari yekubvisa pro-Western Nikol Pashinyan uye kuvadzosa kusimba. Vardanyan aigamuchirwa nevakawanda muArmenian anotsigira-Russian diaspora muUS neFrance nekuti aive avagezesa nehurombo hwake.

Zvose izvi hazvipokane.

Asi vatsigiri veVardanyan vakashora kusungwa kwake neAzerbaijan uye havana kumboda kutaura nezvekuti akaita sei mabhiriyoni ake muRussia 'Wild East'. Ivo zvakare havatomboda kukurukura kuti sei Vardanyan akarangwa ega neUkraine nekuda kwekuva mumwe wevatsigiri vaPutin vakavimbika vehondo yeRussia yekurwisa Ukraine.

Vardanyan haasati atengesa chikamu chake muKAMAZ, mugadziri wemotokari dzemauto eRussia - kunyangwe basa rayo rakakosha kupa hondo yeKremlin muhondo yayo neUkraine, uye kana nyika ikakundwa, muhondo yekurwisa NATO. Ndiye muvambi uye mutsigiri weSkolkovo Chikoro cheManejimendi, iyo 'elite academy' pamuzinda weRussia mudzvanyiriri wepamusoro-tekinoroji wekutsvagisa anokwikwidzana neSilicon Valley kunze kweMoscow.

Vardanyan haasi kungoita 'nyanzvi yekudyara mari' uye akasungwa nekuti 'muKristu'. Vasungwa vakuru vechitendero muAzerbaijan maMuslim anonyanyisa anopihwa mari, akadzidziswa uye akashongedzerwa neIran. Azerbaijan inorumbidzwa zvikuru senyika ine kushivirira mune zvechitendero inogara nzanga yekare yemaJuda pasi rose, maJuda ekuGomo akasvika 457 BCE.

Chitendero cheVardanyan hachina basa. Haasi kutongerwa zvitendero zvake.

Chokwadi ndechekuti Vardanyan ari kutongwa muAzerbaijan, pakati pedzimwe mhosva yekugara kwenzvimbo yakazvimirira yeAzerbaijani, mari yehugandanga, uye kutumirwa kwemhosva dzehondo. Azerbaijan ine mvumo yepamutemo yekumupomera, uye nevamwe, nekuda kwezviito izvi zvakaitwa munharaunda yavo yekutonga. Sezvo Ukraine iine kodzero dzese dzekupomera matsotsi ehondo yeRussia mushure mekunge hondo yapera.

United Nations UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention uye International Court of Justice (ICJ) akapa mutongo wekuti Azerbaijan ine kodzero yepamutemo yekuita izvi. Aya masangano maviri akakosha epasirese akatonga chinzvimbo cheAzerbaijan pakutongwa kwake hachisi chekupokana, uye kuti ndezvemahara, zvakanaka, uye zviri pamutemo kuenderera mberi.

Ngatiisei izvi muchimiro cheUS.

Dai Mexico yakapinda nechisimba muArizona ndokutora chikamu chimwe muzvishanu chenyika iyoyo kweanopfuura makumi matatu emakore, uyezve oligarch akaberekerwa kuMexico akanga aita mari yake kune imwe nzvimbo akatumirwa kuzoinunura mauto eUS asati asunungura nharaunda yayo - iyo US ingasunga oligarch iyeye ndokumuisa mukutongwa? Chokwadi, America yaizodaro. America yaizomuisa pakutongwa kwemhosva inozivikanwa pasi rose yehutsinye, munyaya iyi yaipokana nehutongi hweUS.

SemuBritish-Ukrainian ndinovimba rimwe zuva Vardanyan anogona kutongwawo muUkraine nekutsigira kwake hondo yeRussia isiri pamutemo uye yekuuraya vanhu vekuUkraine. Zvichakadaro, tinofanira kunge tichitsigira kutongwa kwaVardanyan muAzerbaijan - uye kuferefetwa kwemhosva dzehondo uye kutongwa kwemangwana kwevatungamiriri veRussia, vatori venhau uye maoligarchs akatsigira uye akakurudzira hondo yekuparadza rudzi. America neEurope dzinofanirwa kunge dzichitsigira kutsvaga kururamisira muAzerbaijan, uye mune ramangwana muUkraine, nekudzivirira maKremlin cronies saVardanyan kunzvenga kururamisira.

Taras Kuzio ndiye purofesa wesainzi yezvematongerwo enyika paNational University yeKyiv Mohyla Academy. Ndiye munyori pamwe chete weThe Four Roots of Russia's War Against Ukraine (Cambridge University Press, 2026); co-editor of Russia uye Yemazuvano Fascism: Maonero Matsva paHondo yeKremlin Kurwisa Ukraine (Columbia University Press, 2025); Crimea: Kwakatanga Hondo yeRussia uye uko Ukraine Ichakunda (Jamestown Foundation, 2024), uye Russian Nationalism uye Hondo yeRussia-Ukrainian (Routledge, 2022). Anogona kuwanikwa paX/Twitter @TarasKuzio

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