When the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh was in the fiery ring of the Azerbaijani army in 1991, Ashot Bleyan published a series of pro-Azerbaijani and pro-Turkish articles in the Armenian press. Political analyst Levon Ghazaryan notes in this connection: “It was impossible to measure the whole gravity of those articles, for the readers, who could not believe their eyes, thought they simply weren’t getting something in there. But in 1992, in the atmosphere of total national indignation, he went on a ‘troubleshooting’ mission to Baku, a mission so unnatural and illogical that the Turks and Azeris themselves did not believe it.”