To answer the question why Armenians do not like Azerbaijanis, one should turn to the history of the two peoples, and then it will become more or less clear why for more than a century between them, acute conflicts have been fading, then re-emerging, leading to mass clashes and a large number victims.

First, these two peoples profess different religions.

The Armenians were the first people in the world to adopt Christianity as their state religion. This happened in 301 AD. For more than 18 centuries, despite all the historical troubles, Armenia has been professing Christianity.

Azerbaijanis adhere to Shiite Islam. In this they differ from their close relatives, the Turks, who profess Sunnism.

Secondly, the penetration of Armenians into the territory where their country is now located began several thousand years ago. There are several hypotheses about exactly when. According to one, the Armenians are part of the Phrygians who migrated to the east around 7-8 centuries BC. According to another hypothesis, the Armenians live on their territory even longer, which is recorded in the Hittite hieroglyphic sources. How true both assumptions are is the subject of scientific debate.

Azerbaijanis migrated to Transcaucasia already before the eyes of medieval historians. The Turkization of the former Caucasian Albania (an ancient and early medieval state) began around the 11th century AD.

Thirdly, in early XIX century, the Russian Empire began to pursue a policy of repatriation of Armenians on the territory of the former Turkic khanates conquered as a result of the Russian-Persian wars of 1804-1813 and 1826-1828. It is believed that the Muslims of Transcaucasia have always felt themselves part of a single Muslim world, while the Armenians have perceived themselves as a separate nation for many centuries. Obviously, when returning to their ancestral lands, the Armenians were not inclined to get along easily with people who were perceived as "invaders". In addition, in tsarist Russia there were certain restrictions on the participation of non-Christians in the affairs of the state, which led to political discrimination against the Azerbaijani population.

Finally, the events of the beginning of the 20th century laid the foundation for the irreconcilable enmity between these two peoples. During the revolution of 1905, the so-called Armenian-Tatar massacre broke out (in Russia, Azerbaijanis were then called Transcaucasian Tatars). Ethnic problems escalated during the period of anarchy after October revolution which led to the Armenian-Azerbaijani war of 1918-1920. Each military clash between Armenians and Azerbaijanis was accompanied by heavy losses among the civilian population, which could not but provoke new conflicts.

For a long time, in contact with each other, Azerbaijanis and Armenians clashed a lot. Differences in language, culture and religion, multiplied by high density population of Transcaucasia and a relatively small amount of free land, often gave rise to interethnic clashes.

The end of the 20th century was marked by a new full-scale crisis in Armenian-Azerbaijani relations: in 1988, a Karabakh conflict, which led to full-fledged military operations in 1991-1994. The status of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic remains controversial to this day.

The reason for the increase in the number of divorces is the collapse of the system of family values.

About it Oxu.Az said the head of the Public Association for Assistance to Women Təmiz Dünya Mehriban Zeynalova.

According to her, there are many reasons for divorce:

“First of all, some people run the family according to outdated orders. Of course, not everyone agrees with this, as a result of which the relationship deteriorates and a divorce occurs. Forced early marriages, forced marriage due to age, unemployment and infidelity also play a role. Some women do not want their freedom to be forcibly restricted.”

Mehriban Zeynalova stated that it is impossible to prevent a divorce:

“The value system has cracked. There is no way to prevent divorce. The process is self-regulating. This will continue until the process of creating a family becomes conscious.”

Head of the Department of Demography and Population Geography of the Institute of Geography of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan Nizami Eyyubov stated that at present one of the most big problems Azerbaijan is the erosion of national and spiritual values:

“The Internet leads to the erosion of values, social media, the increased cruelty of people. Previously, we did not live very well, but people got along, agreed with each other. Now problems appear out of nowhere and grow. People cannot accept each other and get divorced. Research shows that problems between people are not grounds for divorce."

Nizami Eyyubov stated that over the past 10 years, the number of divorces has increased by 70-80 percent:

“If we compare the first years of independence and our time, now there are more divorces. Natural population growth has declined and continues to decline. The natural increase per 1,000 people has decreased from 19-20 to 9.

The state has adopted programs to solve demographic problems, but the natural increase continues to fall. It's all about divorce and a sharp reduction in the birth rate. Does a divorced person want children? Of course not".

The head of the department noted that the natural population growth will continue to decline:

“Now the population of Azerbaijan is growing both due to natural growth and due to visitors. The migration balance has been negative before.

Also, part of the natural increase left the country. Now it's not like that. In Armenia, natural growth and population are three times lower than ours. Compared to Armenia, our situation is very good. But it is imperative to prevent the destruction of national and family values.”

It should be noted that in the first half of 2018, the district (city) registration departments of the Ministry of Justice registered 27,525 marriages and 7,219 divorces. The number of marriages per 1000 population was 5.7, divorces - 1.5.

For the corresponding period of last year, 40,256 marriages and 9,787 divorces were recorded in the country. The number of marriages per 1000 population was 6.2, divorces - 1.5.

I wonder why Armenia has developed such relations with almost all of its neighbors? No, I'm not for the sake of inciting ethnic hatred, but just to find out opinions, maybe someone has some interesting thoughts on this matter.

The difficult history with Turkey is understandable, but why did it start? Why don't Azerbaijanis like them? They continue to dislike why the Baku pogroms occurred several times in history? And at the beginning of the 20th century there were, and at the end of it?

Why even a large number of Georgians do not like Armenians? To be honest, many Georgians have extremely negative feelings towards Mikheil Saakashvili himself, accusing him of being an accomplice of the Armenians in Georgia and actively promoting their interests in the republic. Some people there even consider him an Armenian. In Tbilisi, the Armenians generally have a whole area where they have been living for many centuries - Avlabari. There I stopped. In the south, closer to the border, there are even more of them. But the Georgians are clearly not very positive about them there either.

The indigenous population of Sochi also treats them extremely negatively. I don’t know if it’s true or not, but they say that there is an unwritten rule in the Krasnodar Territory - not to hire them in law enforcement agencies and government agencies. In a private conversation, this will be argued to you like this: if you take one Armenian, he will then bring all his relatives to the authorities and hello. The further implications of this are clear.

One Azerbaijani told me a clever thing on the way to Istanbul:

"I even envy the Armenians a little. They are very close-knit, unlike us. We are Turks and we have many nationalities of brothers. You are Slavs and there are many of you too. You also have those who understand you. But the Armenians (well, the Georgians ) there is no one else. A small people, a small land, and no one else understands their language except themselves. That is why they are so close-knit. Maybe that is why we lost Nagorno-Karabakh then. If one of us grows career and financially, others start pull him back down, they don't want someone to be higher. The Armenians are different. One rises, he leads all the others. So they are great in this. A small country, a small people."

One thing really annoys me about the Armenians. Talked about it theme . The Armenian Genocide by the Turks is one of their main export goods. It is hammered into the heads of children from childhood. Even in Saratov we have a monument erected by Armenians to the victims of the Armenian genocide. Saratov something to do with it? Well, we have a lot of them here :-)

Similarly, our main product in Volgograd is the 2nd World War. That is, you will arrive there, and there is an echo of war all around. All.

I don't kindle. It's so words and opinions different people. The topic of interethnic conflicts has long been interesting.