In this period, Arsenijević also wrote for other publications: his April 2012 commentary inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest about to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan was published in German daily "die Tageszeitung" as a guest column. In it, Arsenijević compares Azerbaijan to Serbia, on one hand finding differences "in their respective cultural, political and economic concepts" by describing the former as a "country getting richer by the day while being muzzled by a family dynasty in the making along with its own personal nouveau riche clique" while considering the latter to be a "land of perpetual economic ruin ruled by an unscrupulous and insatiable political class", but on the other hand also noticing many similarities in what he sees as "both countries' desperate search for a new, modern identity that's in parallel accompanied by each country's respective unwillingness, or maybe even inability, to let go of old ways, creative misuses of power, and historical and territorial obsessions". He considers Azerbaijan and Serbia to both have "bad reputations in the international community" and views them both as being "well-known for widespread corruption that's deeply embedded in every pore of their societies". He further sees a similarity in how both countries handle their territorial disputes by "'defending' their disputed areas, Nagorno-Karabakh and Kosovo, respectively, in bloody wars that they later lose along with the disputed territory".