Nonstandard Europe: EU ambassador to Baku enlisted in criminal  circles 

ArmInfo.  Today, more than ever, Armenian society is observing European double standards, which are manifested here and there, based on narrowly opportunistic interests.  For example, yesterday the reaction of the EU Ambassador to Azerbaijan Peter Michalko to the events in Russia caused  bewilderment. And this is in conditions when Russian law enforcement  officers, within the scope of their authority, came to members of an  organized criminal group - Russian citizens with Azerbaijani roots,  who have been terrorizing and killing their own compatriots for  decades.

Yes, and it would seem that where is the EU Ambassador to Azerbaijan,  and where is the fight against crime in Russia - processes taking  place within the framework of exclusively internal Russian  jurisdiction.  If the EU Ambassador to Russia had said something, for  example, about the harshness of law enforcement officers, then this  could have been placed in some logical "humanitarian" framework.

And so, Mikhalko from Baku, no less, decided to express so-called  deep concern in connection with the reports of "inhumane treatment"  of ethnic Azerbaijanis in Russia. "I am deeply concerned about the  reports of violence, torture and inhumane treatment of ethnic  Azerbaijanis in Russia, which even lead to deaths by Russian security  forces. My thoughts are with the victims and their families," he  wrote on his Facebook page.

You must admit that this text "with thoughts" is more than strange,  and in terms of genre it is more suitable for a memorial speech of a  member of a friendly criminal "community" than an official ambassador  of free Europe.

It is curious that this same ambassador, whose mission includes  monitoring the state of affairs in the field of human rights as an  important element of the system of European values in the territory  of Azerbaijan, has never touched upon the illegal staged trials of  the Armenians of Artsakh, who have been subjected to a cruel trial  for the second year, with the same zeal. We have not seen a  compassionate reaction from a European diplomat when Azerbaijani  thugs, using methods typical of ISIS terrorists, beheaded young  children, defenseless old people, women in Artsakh, only because they  wanted to live on their own land. 

We also do not remember Ambassador Mikhalko's special reaction to the  persecution of journalists, opposition figures, representatives of  national minorities in Azerbaijan, who have been especially zealously  "pressured" by the Azerbaijani authorities in recent years. After  all, according to the same official data of Azerbaijan, over three  hundred Azerbaijani journalists and bloggers are in prison only for  daring to present to the citizens of their country a different truth,  not dreamed up in the offices of Aliyev's officials. And Ambassador  Mikhalko has never spoken out so fiercely on any episode directly  concerning Azerbaijan, but on Russia, of course, he can be patted on  the head in Brussels, and in Baku he will be presented with a "jar of  caviar".