Armenian and Azerbaijani Main Languages in Armenia?

Bookstores in Armenia affectionately present to the attention of the buyers a geographical encyclopedia published in Russia with a page devoted to Armenia that will horrify and infuriate any Armenian.
The thing is that Armenia is presented in the encyclopedia with facts beyond all limits of logic: first that the main language in Armenia along with Armenian is Azerbaijani, that the main religions in Armenia are orthodoxy and Islam, in particular – Shia, as well as false information about the Artsakh issue.
In particular it is mentioned that in 1988-1989 there was a war between Armenia and Azerbaijan because of the Artsakh status where Artsakh is presented as follows: “Historical territory of Azerbaijan populated mainly by Armenians.”
The encyclopedia worth about ten thousand drams and titled «Большая иллюстрированная энциклопедия географии» has been published in 2009 by the Russian publishing house «Махаон» in cooperation with British «The Kingfisher Geography Encyclopedia» Company.
Ridiculous and infuriating is also the picture presenting Armenia: two elderly villagers, a woman and a man, collecting potatoes in the field; their image can be associated more with Azeries than Armenians.
In short, a foreigner wishing to get information about Armenia and Armenians after watching this encyclopedia can only decide that Armenia is a backward Muslim country with a backward population engaged mainly in agriculture.
“Couldn’t they find a more appropriate picture to present Armenia – Garni, Etchmiadzin or one of thousands of historical cultural monuments?” after seeing the encyclopedia says a surprised young man. “We are a civilized nation and live not only by growing potatoes… to say nothing of religion and language. I think this is specially developed policy to discredit Armenia.”
We learned about non-trustworthy information about Armenia in the encyclopedia from a citizen’s call to the “Kentron” TV channel’s “Good morning, Armenians” program.
The woman was indignantly telling how she bought the encyclopedia and opening the article on Armenia found false and non-trustworthy information.
She also asked the anchormen to raise the question with “top leadership”. The anchormen promised to deal with the issue saying that first they would inform reporters and asking the woman to leave her phone number.
We were interested with the issue and decided to follow the case and make a story. We called “Kentron” TV company to take the woman’s phone number (since the title of the encyclopedia, its publishing data etc. were not quite clear from her call).
The coordinator of the program told us that the woman’s phone number wasn’t registered for some unconvincing reasons.
So we were obliged to visit all the bookstores of Yerevan, burrow in all Russian language geographical encyclopedias to find the one.
Fortunately our efforts were not in vain. At one of the well-known bookstores on Mashtots Avenue we found the encyclopedia. Employees of the bookstore told us they had been selling it for several months but could not tell how many copies were already sold. They also said they received no negative response about the encyclopedia.
“Ankakh” will pursue raising this issue at state and public level. If necessary it will sue the Russian and British publishing houses that published the encyclopedia.