the problem was that the head of our forces couldnt even speak Azerbaijani. He was working for Russia. previous defense minister was Lezgi, who are actually speak only Russian language. the guy who was pointing ministry of interior, and head of everything was also Russian guy and were reciving medal every year,I assume the Azerbaijani army is not going to buy Russian arms from now on only when absolutely necessary?
Our president was a young guy when he came to power, they appointed him thinking that if anybody else comes, there would be huge protest in Azerbaijan and they could kick our Russian guy immidiately with help of Turkey. for example, Azerbaijan was first country who kicked our USSR forces, millions of people went against Russian forces in city without weapon, thousands died but finally Russia understood that they need to live. my dad was one of them too, they were using molotov cocktail and hunting weapons against Russian forces. so, Russia though he can come, as everybody respected his dad and were fine him being a president, and they can keep controlling the country. But, when he came, he also knew that he is weak. he first showed himself on their side, cleaned inside one by one. 3-4 years ago changed defense minister that was more into Turkey, i even said it some years ago some people might remember. some months ago he changed the government system how its ruled and simply kick out the guy who used to appoint all ministers(the russian guy). the same day when they started the war, he also arrested the head of all forces. basically he first changed defense minister for his mistakes, he put someone close, then that guy appoints all people who study in Turkey and they kick our the bigger guy. Russia was too strong in Azerbaijan, but not anymore, they lost all their trusted people, also had no support from local people as everybody wants to be with Turkey.
We still export 3 billion$ goods to Russia, which is big, when you imagine that whole Armenian economy is 2 billion$. also, if we loose it, Armenia could gain it.. the only reason armenia couldnt gain it is our Mafia is too strong in Russia, they are the head of all Mafia there. unlike other mafias, our mafia dont control drug sales, because of islamic rules. they are totally against it. but They control all Bazaar. sales of all vegetables, or import from Turkey about shoes and so on. even in Karabagh war, they kicked all armenian sellers from bazaar, even Russian government couldnt do anything about it. or, at one video, Armenians kicked 5-6 of them 1 Azerbaijani, to make him say Karabagh is Armenian, but he didnt say and got kicked so bad. the next day, hundreds of Armenians got shoot in Russia. all their cafes, restaurants destroyed(they are normally in that business) and all of them even closed their places. finally they said sorry, thousands of them, and also Russian government stepped in to stop it. as you can see, Russian cannot really do much in itself. they even wanted to make Chechen people get all the control as CHechen leader is close person of Putin, our side killed huge part of them immidiately and Chechen people officially said that they have no intention to take it anymore and they are sorry for that. our side were still not happy and Chechen people themsels killed they guy who said bad things about the head of our mafia and it stopped.
even our government used them in their favour, for example, Russia killed the head of Azerbaijani mafia, who killed all Russian, Armenian and Georgian mafia and became like a king. theyr though the is no guy to replace him. but our president immidiately freed the guy from prison who got life sentence and he again replaced him. thats when Chechens tried to got the business and got their ass kicked.
I think the main reason our mafia is too strong, our army trains thousands of SOF units every year. some of them later get off and join to mafia with huge salary. with that level training, so far, nobody in Russia even try to go against them as they killed hugeeee Russian mafias. imagien that all Russian prisons work for the mafia, send money to them too.
so, probably they will still keep relations, but not as before. they will move to Turkish systems. even our president mentioned that they will make a small version of Turkish army.. the only problem is EU and USA also has embargo on us even though our land is occupied. We want to buy armored vehicles but because of engine we cannot, we wanted to purchase 36 Firtina artillery, again engine problem, we wanted to purchase SOM missiles, again engine problem and none of them finalized. probably 2021 will be the year of difference and most probably thats what our president was waiting for..