“GEGHARD”
SCIENTIFIC ANALYTICAL
FOUNDATION
2026
2026
2026-06-17
The “Geghard” Scientific Analytical Foundation strongly condemns the anti-Armenian racist propaganda promoted by Azerbaijani state officials, members of parliament, and so-called “experts”. It also calls for the boycott and rejection of Azerbaijani propaganda in all possible forums and platforms.
Baku once again attempts to mislead the international audience by claiming that the Armenian educational system contains hate speech and anti-Azerbaijani propaganda.
The latest event took place in Baku, where a report titled “Hate Speech and Falsification of Historical Facts in Armenian Secondary Schools” was presented in both Azerbaijani and English. The project was led by Ali Abdullayev, Vice President of the Center for Strategic Communications, who claimed that their “study” was based on materials discovered in educational institutions in Karabakh. Abdullayev, who pretends to expose Armenian “historical falsifications,” was “surprised” to see that Armenian maps depict Nakhijevan as a historical Armenian territory. He further asserted that, during the analysis of more than 1,000 materials, the researchers had allegedly identified nearly 3,000 instances of historical falsification.
A. Abdullayev, a notorious falsifier, has once again made unfounded accusations against Armenians and Armenia, overlooking the fact that, since the Soviet era, Baku has pursued a systematic policy of erasing Armenian religious, cultural, and historical heritage in Nakhijevan. One of the most well-known examples is the destruction of the Armenian cemetery and khachkars in Jugha (Julfa), along with hundreds of other documented cases.
According to Abdullayev, the “textbooks and ideological literature examined in the report were published in Yerevan by state institutions” and as if contain “hate speech directed not only against Azerbaijanis but also against ethnic minorities living in Azerbaijan.”
Jabi Bahramov, head of the “History of Western Azerbaijan” department at the Institute of History and Ethnology of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, also claimed that “the Armenian side has falsified the history of Azerbaijan both during the Soviet period and after the collapse of the USSR.”
It is ironic that accusations of historical falsification are being made by the head of a department devoted to the “History of Western Azerbaijan,” given that “Western Azerbaijan” itself is a fabricated and politicized concept.
Azerbaijani MP Rizvan Nabiyev, in turn, accused that “administrative resources of the state were used at various stages and in various forms to fuel hatred towards Azerbaijan.” One of the MP’s unfounded claims is that people in Armenia are drawn into “ideological wars” from an early age.
In fact, Nabiyev’s statement more accurately describes what is taking place not in Armenia, but in Azerbaijan.
In Azerbaijan, hostility toward ethnic Armenians is cultivated from an early age, in kindergartens and schools. Numerous videos available online show anti-Armenian events and activities taking place in Azerbaijani schools and preschools. Similar footage was also shared by Azerbaijani journalist Javid Ahmadov.
“Look at this madness in an Azerbaijani school. This is how they brainwash young people. School has become a venue for propaganda, not for education. Students role-play capturing an Armenian and forcing him to say “Karabakh is Azerbaijan.” What a shame for education!” he wrote.
In almost all subjects in Azerbaijani school textbooks, there are materials with anti-Armenian content. Information about Armenia and Armenians is distorted. The “Geghard” Scientific Analytical Foundation had previously provided a detailed analysis of the anti-Armenian propaganda present in Azerbaijani textbooks. These pieces of evidence have been formally submitted by Armenia to the International Court of Justice of the United Nations as part of its case against Azerbaijan.
“For decades, the government of Azerbaijan has cultivated racist hatred toward ethnic Armenians. Azerbaijani children are instructed to hate and kill Armenians through school textbooks. State media actively spread hate speech, and government officials openly advocate for the complete extermination of Armenians,” on April 16, 2024, during hearings at the International Court of Justice in the cases “Armenia v. Azerbaijan” and “Azerbaijan v. Armenia,” Armenia’s Representative on International Legal Matters, Yeghishe Kirakosyan, made this statement. Yerevan had filed the case against Baku in September 2021 for violations of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Such events have a political objective: to shape a distorted perception of Armenia in the international community.
What has taken place once again demonstrates that Baku continues its anti-Armenian activities in various directions, and that the accusations of “hate speech” and “historical falsification” in Armenian schools are part of anti-Armenian propaganda, in contrast to the arguments presented by Armenia.