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Sputnik: Lapshin apologizes to Azerbaijan

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Alexander Lapshin, a citizen of both Russia and Israel, who has been detained the Belarusian capital in 2016 has written a letter of apology to Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev over the blogger's visit to Nagorno-Karabakh without consent of Baku, Consul of Israeli embassy to Minsk Yulia Rachinski-Spivakov said Friday, reports Sputniknews.com. Earlier in the day, the Prosecutor General's Office of Belarus announced that it had decided to extradite the blogger on Azerbaijan's request. "[On January 18, Lapshin signed] a letter of apology addressed to Azerbaijan's president… In the letter he asked pardon for his activities in the light of the fact that naivety was behind the actions he conducted. The letter has been notarized by the consul of Israeli embassy to Belarus and sent via our embassy to Baku for consideration by the administration of Azerbaijan's president," Rachinski-Spivakov said, as quoted by the BelaPAN news agency. Read more on the source website The RA Chamber of Advocates also touched upon the issue