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The parties did not reach an agreement on the rental fee of the station. According to Azerbaijani sources Baku demanded a rental fee 40 times more for the military object, than it was paid before (USD 300 million instead of 7).

 

The ‘Daryal’ RLS located in the area of Gabala was handed for exploitation in 1985. It was one of the 9 stations of the USSR missile systems, and today it is a property of Azerbaijan and was rented out to Russia until 2012 according to the signed agreement (the deadline expired on December 9).

 

This ‘commercial’ maneuver of Azerbaijan more reminded indirectly expelling someone living by a rent from its territory. By the estimation of many, Azerbaijan will receive a corresponding reaction from Moscow as a response to Russia’s abandoning the station.

 

The fact that Azerbaijan does not do concessions the experts ‘link with the deviations regarding the gas transfer by the bottom of the Caspian Sea that Russia creates for Baku’ writes the website ‘aze.az’.

 

However, Russia has given its reply much earlier when a new RLS ‘Voronezh-DM’ was handed for exploitation in Armavir in Krasnodar area.

 

The exploitation of this new military object has already launched. It is expected that during one year it will be fully exploited. According to the experts’ estimations the ‘Voronezh-DM’ exceeds Gabala station. As the senior constructor of the military object Sergey Boyev evaluates, such a missile defence system is the only in the world.

 

It is absolutely clear that Azerbaijan falls behind in terms of energy resources transportation. However, Azerbaijan’s ‘gambit’ is not conditioned only with that, the reason is much deeper. For instance, the Chairman of the ‘Atlas’ political research center Elhan Shahinoglu notes that ‘the the presence of the Russian military base in Azerbaijan contradicts to the military doctrine of Azerbaijan’. According to him, the exploitation of the RLS by the Russians put Azerbaijan in an awkward position, since ‘Azerbaijan has signed an agreement on military-strategic cooperation with Turkey’.

 

While talking on the same topic the expert Sulkhaddin Akper noted that Azerbaijan is in a military condition and Russia is the military ally of Armenia and assists in the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh issue. In this regard the exploitation of the station by Russians contradicts to the steps of Azerbaijan. ‘The station needs to be liquidated’. As the ‘aze.az’ informs a new issue has arisen, namely who will rent to station now. Moreover, they are planning to solve this matter with the help of new partners, e.g. the US and Turkey. In that case it will not be a deal of USD 300 million, there will not be such environmental issues as Azerbaijan had put in front of Russia. New standards and approaches will come in force.