One of the leaders of the unrecognized authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh, Ruben Vardanyan, faces 14 years in prison in Azerbaijan, as follows from the articles of the republic’s Criminal Code brought against him. RIA Novosti writes.

Earlier on Thursday, the State Security Service of Azerbaijan reported that Vardanyan had been charged under articles 214-1 (financing terrorism), 279.3 (participation in the creation and activities of armed formations or groups not provided for by law) and 318.1 (Organizing the illegal arrival of a foreigner or stateless person in the Azerbaijani Republic) of the Criminal Code of the Azerbaijan Republic.

These articles provide for a prison term of up to 14 years.