A columnist for Rossisskaya Gazeta, the government’s official newspaper, wrote simply: “How wretched it all looked.”
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova echoed the Azerbaijani narrative, saying that “Paris is provoking another round of armed confrontation in the South Caucasus, and they are doing it in different ways.”
Russia is not a member of the global court, does not recognise its jurisdiction and refuses to hand over suspects, meaning there is no immediate likelihood of either suspect being detained.
According to the information I received, Father Nikolai was killed in a church in Derbent and his throat was cut. He was 66 years old and very ill.
Surely, all good Christians pray for peace every day.