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A question
Hello Alex Bakharev!

I have a question. My Russian ain't that top notch these days I can self-admit, but I feel like someone is playing with us. I couldn't find it in his given "link", but perhaps you can? According this certain user (who's willing to war about it) this piece of information "should confirm" this content he added in front of it; "Some cession treaties were signed by individual Azeri khans, such as Ibrahim Khalil Khan (Treaty of Kurakchay), Huseyngulu Khan who ceded Baku Khanate and Mustafa Khan who ceded Shirvan Khanate." I think he's frauding with us, as I couldn't find anything in it that stipulated that this happened. Funnily enough (and much to the pain of such nationalists), I did find this information;

"'Semenov YI National policy in imperial Russia. Civilised outskirts (Finland, Poland, the Baltic states, Bessarabia, Ukraine, the Caucasus, Central Asia - Caucasus as a whole. 'The treaty of eternal peace and friendship signed between the Emperor of Russia and the Persian state in the Russian camp in the town of Gulistan in the river Zeyva, through appointed to both sides and of confirmed mutual agreement. (...) The treaty was concluded between His Majesty the Emperor of Russia and His Majesty the Shah of Persia. - For the peace between Russia and Persia. Regarding the policy to revise the Transcaucasian region, orders are given to Senator E.I Mechnikov, to transform the management system in the South Caucasus and the colonization of the region (between 1830 - January 20, 1831).'"

Am I correct with both my findings here? Regarding the unsourced addition of that material an this quote I added here above? I had Suvorov on my watchlist, and saw that you edited it not that long ago, so I wondered whether you could help me out with this one. I hope this wasn't too much asked from you, btw. :-) Bests - LouisAragon (talk) 02:55, 6 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi, User:LouisAragon. You are certainly right with the second finding. Regarding the first, the user might be acting in good faith (I am not sure what statement they were trying to prove by the reference). The link is a table of content and a download link that after registration allows to download a word file with a collection of 19th century Russian official documents (compiled by Semenov Y I). The section Б. Восточное Закавказье (Eastern Transcaucasia) that starts on page 195 of the word document) is related to the modern Azerbaijan. There are a number of documents of granting individual khans Russian citizenship, some rank within the Empire and/or gifts and thanking them for giving their khanates to the tsars, there are a number of documents from individual khans swearing allegiance to Russia and renouncing allegiance to Persia. One document mentions an agreement between the khan and Russian general Tsitsianov:


 * № 81. Грамота императора Александра I 21 мая 1805 года о принятии Селим-хана Шакинского в подданство России
 * Божиею поспешествующею милостью мы, Александр Первый, император и самодержец всероссийский, московский, киевский... и проч., и проч.. Нам любезно-верноподданному шакинской земли владельцу Селим-хану наша императорская милость и благоволение. Снисходя на прошение Ваше, изъявленное нашему генералу от инфантерии, кавказскому инспектору и главно-управляющему Грузией князю Цицианову, вступить в вечное подданство Российской империи, и видя нелицемерные знаки сего желания, равно как и преданности Вашей к высокому нашему престолу в заключенных Вами с помянутым генералом от инфантерии и князем Цициановым условиях, утверждаем и признаем Вас,, нашего любезно-верноподданного, владетелем ханства Шакинского под верховным покровительством, державой и защитой Российской империи, приемля Вас и дом Ваш и всех шакинской земли жителей в число наших верноподданных, обещая Вам и преемникам Вашим нашу императорскую милость и благоволение. Приняв за благо все статьи постановления, заключенного по взаимному согласию Вашему с нашим генералом от инфантерии князем Цициановым мая 21-го дня 1805 г., каковое слово от слова при сей жалованной нашей грамоте прилагается, утверждаем оное во всей силе нашим императорским словом на вечные времена ненарушимо за нас и преемников наших. Для славы дома Вашего и в память нашей императорской милости к Вам и законным преемникам Вашим, шакинским ханам, жалуем Вам знамя с гербом Российской империи и саблю, которые повелеваем хранить в доме Вашем наследственно и при каждой перемене нового преемника испрашивать высочайшего утверждения в звании хана Шакинского нашими императорскими грамотами, которые, равно как и сия, по неизреченному милосердию нашему будут к Вам всемилостивейше посылаемы. За сим поручая Вам управлять шакинским народом с кротостью и правосудием, пребываем [уверены], что Вы и наследники Ваши как в преданности Вашей к нашему [престолу], так и в точном выполнении Ваших обязанностей пребудете непоколебимы. [ ] и в залог монаршей нашей к Вам и народу шакинскому милости дана сия императорская наша грамота за собственноручным нашим подписанием и с приложением государственной печати в престольном нашем граде Святого Петра июля 10-го дня в лето от Рождества Христова тысяча восемьсот пятое и царствования нашего в пятое.
 * АЛЕКСАНДР
 * Князь Адам Чарторыский
 * Печатается по изданию: Под стягом России. Сборник архивных документов. М., 1992. С.288-289.

I guess that on top with the treaty with Persian Pasha, the Tsar and his government negotiated with individual khans sometimes ending up with a formal agreements, sometimes with an informal agreements that the khan would swear allegiance to Russia and in exchange would get some position within the Empire and/or gifts. Obviously those negotiations would only make sense if Persia would not be able to stop the power transfer. The last but not least the documents related to the khans are of 1805 and the Treaty of Gulistan is signed in 1813. There events are 8 years apart. Alex Bakharev (talk)


 * , thanks alot for your prompt response! Would you thus agree with me that adding such information to a general country's overview article (Azerbaijan) would be WP:UNDUE as well as clear (at least partial) source manipulation? These treaties would indeed as you correctly say, only viable if Persia would not be able to stop them, however, unfortunately they were still at war until 1813, and Persia did not ratify any of these treaties while the borders constantly changed. I wanted to assume GF firstly as well, but then I realised the user who added this stuff simply wanted to make it seem as if what is modern-day Azerbaijan got "independance" from Persia earlier than 1813, which is nonsensical in his particular way of describing the story. It can be added, with better sources, to articles such as Treaty of Kurekchay etc, but simply not there. Alex, perhaps you can, if you have time, post a comment about it here? Me and another user already clearly stated that it should be removed (note also that the user who decided to add it to the article has a history of making such "related" edits, as I demonstrated down below the talk page with a diff) but perhaps your new comment can decisively end it as it would be three well-established argumentations vs 1 not well established one. After all, its a GA article, thus I believe the effort is worth it. Bests and thanks again. - LouisAragon (talk) 21:51, 6 November 2015 (UTC)


 * , you won't be able to? No problem if you can't, but I'd like to know if so, whenever you have time to reply :-) - LouisAragon (talk) 20:14, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, Louis. I was away from wiki for a couple of weeks. I will look into the discussion (although I am ignorant in the subject manner). Alex Bakharev (talk) 00:46, 25 December 2015 (UTC)


 * , heh, I noticed, no problem. A comment, for the archiving record there would be nice indeed, if possible. A happy new year in advance btw! )) Bests - LouisAragon (talk) 01:38, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

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 * I visited it a few times long time ago in Soviet period, it looked like an oasis of a different life then. Wish to visit it again sometime. Regarding the gallery tags - I guess nobody knows all the usable wikipedia macros, tags and format details. Only cooperative editing allows to use the full potential of those gadgets. Cheers Alex Bakharev (talk) 00:27, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

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 * Dear User: Alex Bakharev, thank you for your neutral input. I believe that your compromise is an excellent solution. The only one point of concern - why should we keep UkSSR flag-reference in the infobox. I afraid that you simply didn't noticed it (correct me if I am wrong) as the UkSSR flag clearly contradict to your neutral text. Please change it if I am right - I don't want to do it myself as it irritates my opponents.--Viggen (talk) 09:54, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
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 * The references on the wiki-page said nothing about the battalion being far right, they said that some members of the battalion have fierce far right views and that some members were accused of human right violations. I still do not understand how a military formation (whether being conscripted or volunteered) can be a far right. The purpose of military formation is not related to politics, same goes for metallurgical plants, mines, software companies, etc whether they are own by oligarchs or not. The sources probably allow us to state that Aidar Battalion has links with far right. But in Nadya Savchenko's article it will be an accusation by association and violation of WP:BLP Alex Bakharev (talk)

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Please remove protection from "Nadiya Savchenko" page. Some sections of this page contains biased propaganda information - I tried to remove it, but you just blocked the whole page. I mean russian proverb "__ in a skirt" means something like "worse then men" it has nothing to do with american gender relation culture. User:Volunteer Marek added this propagandist cliche and then reverted all my edits on the pritext of "deletion of cited text for propaganda purposes" (!). Check it please Kazzura (talk) 23:50, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
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I am currently looking to expand and improve this article, in no small part to removing Baddeley, a journalist and not a reliable source.

I found this book, which gives the impression that Sheikh Mansur's rebellion was in and of itself a separate conflict from the Russo-Turkish War (1787-92). In this book page22, states the Russian High Command had made no plans for the Caucasus during the 1787 war. In your opinion, of what you know and/or can find, should Mansur's rebellion and the Russian response(s) be separate from the 1787 war or included?

This book page 99 states operations in the Caucasus front was ruled out. --Kansas Bear (talk) 20:20, 5 June 2016 (UTC)


 * I am afraid that those matters are way above my knowledge of the matter but if you need to translate a source from Russian or search Russian websites for more information I will try to be helpful Alex Bakharev (talk) 03:12, 6 June 2016 (UTC)


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Hello Alex! I ask you protect my edit here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fascism&action=history English users can not understand Russian on normal level. Good source is used in the article. Thank you! Ivano Capuler (talk) 01:31, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
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 * RunnyAmiga is right I am not very active last months. I agree with Ivano that the question of relations between fascism and Marxism ideologies is a very interesting topic. But just one random citation from Mussolini sourced to a Russian website is not something that must be in the article. We might need a good secondary sources that refer to this citation when narrating Fascism topic. As a native Russian speaker I can confirm that hrono.ru has good reputation and in the articles related to Russian history we consider it as a relable source. Alex Bakharev (talk) 23:57, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

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A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

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As an AfC reviewer you're probably aware that a new user right has been created for patrolling new pages (you might even have been granted the right already, and admins have it automatically).

Since July there has been a very serious backlog at Special:NewPagesFeed of over 14,000 pages, by far the worst since 2011, and we need an all out drive to get this back down to just a few hundred that can be easily maintained in the future. Unlike AfC, these pages are already in mainspace, and the thought of what might be there is quite scary. There are also many good faith article creators who need a simple, gentle push to the Tea House or their pages converted to Draft rather than being deleted. Although New Page Reviewing can occasionally be somewhat more challenging than AfC, the criteria for obtaining the right are roughly the same. The Page Curation tool is even easier to use than the Helper Script, so it's likely that most AfC reviewers already have more than enough knowledge for the task of New Page Review.

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Vadim_Yakovlev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadim_Yakovlev I read the information, which is entirely based on Babel's book. According to Norman Davies Babel's book is fiction and in this case I found information on Russin wiki that contradicts account of Babel. The name of the person was apparently different. Could you please check with Russian sources and tell me if there were 2 Yakovlevs fighting with Reds in Poland, or we need to rewrite the whole article?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Kowerda Russian version: Вместе с редактором газеты «Беларускае слова» А. В. Павлюкевичем и белогвардейским казачьим есаулом М. И. Яковлевым подготовил покушение на полпреда СССР в Польше П. Л. Войкова, которое должно было стать актом возмездия за участие Войкова в расстреле царской семьи и вообще за красный террор. 7 июня 1927 года Борис Коверда выстрелил в Войкова, в результате чего полпред скончался.

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 * Yakovlev is a very common Russian surname, I am pretty sure there were more than two of them fighting with the reds (or with the whites for that mater). Babel is indeed not a very reliable source, he was a fiction writer not a historian by trade. I will try to check the sources. Alex Bakharev (talk) 00:52, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

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Приветствую, Алекс! Возможно, Вас не затруднит: просьба создать на английском коротенькую статью (размером с русскую версию примерно) про этого человека, используя интервики. С Вашим опытом и знанием языка, это пустяк. И пусть не смущает, что Леонов из России. Надеюсь, что Вы не откажете. Благодарю! - 95.29.144.92 (talk) 22:05, 25 October 2018 (UTC).
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