Who is Limonov and what is he doing in Karabakh

Since the very beginning of the conflict around Nagorno-Karabakh, it became obvious that it's possible to restore peace only through dialogue. Over the years, diplomats and human rights activists have repeatedly tried to contribute to the settlement of this conflict. Armenians and Azerbaijanis, who call for dialogue, are convinced that there are much more things that unite then, rather than divide. They don't say that we should forget about all tragic events, but urge to do everything possible to make sure such events want occur once again.

Over the past two decades Russia has continued to work intensively, both independently and as part of the OSCE Minsk Group, to resolve the Karabakh conflict, since it's much more interested in restoring stability in the South Caucasus compared to any other country. 

Meanwhile, the war party in Armenia periodically finances trips of odious characters from Russia to the occupied territories to draw attention to its "work", but the results of these trips often bring the opposite result, since all their activities haven't brought anything but hostility and hatred to the region.

A few days ago 74-year-old writer Eduard Limonov (Savenko) visited Karabakh. His It's pretty embarrassing to quote his "Karabakh notes" due to how delusional and aggressive they are. The initiative to invite Limonov seems very strange, especially considering his "track record". He was previously seen with weapons in various self-proclaimed republics, including in the territory of former Yugoslavia. "In October of 1992 I stood with President of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia Karadžić near Sarajevo, we were filmed by BBC. I made a mistake there - I did not see how BBC cameraman filmed me while I was holding a machine gun ... These shots (the film was shown in the US, France and England several times) cost me a lot. They 'confirmed' my bad reputation as a nationalist, fascist and killer of civilians," Limonov wrote in "Book of the Dead".

Writer's political views have always been controversial. In the USSR, he was considered anti-Soviet activist. During emigration he wrote accusatory articles about capitalism and bourgeois way of life, handcuffed himself to the building of The New York Times, changed citizenship, wives, participated in elections to Russia's State Duma, offered his candidacy for presidency to the opposition, tried to please Russian authorities, supported 2014 referendum in Crimea, criticizing Western leaders.

Limonov's National-Bolshevik party later transformed into the "Other Russia" party, which very few people took seriously. His supporters urged to establish "power of Russians in Russia", fight against "black" and "yellow" occupants. Limonov's political views are extremely simple - they may be shocking, but they are groundless, there's no logic in them.

Limonov's literary works, in which he uses profanity and naturalistic descriptions of sexual scenes, including homosexual ones, have been successful at one time, but now he tries to find other means of expression. Every person has his own way of getting rid of complexes, and the fact that Eduard Limonov was declared persona non grata in Azerbaijan due to visit to the occupied territories is the problem of Limonov himself. But it's the problem of society that while artists urge Azerbaijanis and Armenians to lay down their weapons and sit down at the negotiating table, Russian writer, who desperately tries to sow interethnic discord in Russia itself, is now doing it in the Caucasus.