 Azerbaijanis hold a protest rally in Karabakh. A group of Azerbaijani journalists and NGO representatives have held a protest rally on the Shoshala Chinrod in Karabakh. Azerbaijan's breakaway region where Russian peacekeepers have been stationed, the demonstrators were protesting Armenia's illegal exploitation of gold mines in Karabakh and what they described as Armenia's environmental terrorism in the region. The peaceful rally was held in front of the post of Russian peacekeepers. The protesters expressed dissatisfaction over the fact that Russian peacekeepers were preventing Azerbaijan's Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources and other state institutions from carrying out ecological monitoring in the area of soil control. Peacekeepers were also preventing free movement of Azerbaijani citizens in Lachin region in Karabakh. Protesters said. The protesters demanded that the commander of the Russian peacekeeping forces stationed in Karabakh, Major General Andrey Volkov, came to the area. An officer of the Russian peacekeepers appeared in front of the participants. However, he refused to answer their questions. According to protesters, the officer was drunk. A dispute arose between the Russian peacekeepers and their participants of the protest. Azerbaijan regained control over its Armenian-occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region in the war in 2020. The November Statements that ended the war stipulated the stationing of 2000 strong Russian peacekeeping contingent in the region for the duration of 5 years.