Wednesday, June 28 2017 16:08

ArmInfo.A thorough analysis of the processes, including around Russia, allows one to come to the conclusion that Moscow is preparing for a geopolitical retreat to new  "defensive" lines with the goal of saving everything that can still  be saved. An ex-NKR Foreign Minister, independent analyst Arman  Melikyan expressed such an  opinion to ArmInfo.

"Many people think  the Kremlin is preparing for another military and  political expansion in order to regain control of all that is left of  the USSR, intending to build a new Russian empire, of course, without  the Baltic states and most of Ukraine." I think this opinion is wrong  within the consideration of  ongoing reformatting of the political  space of Eurasia, at least in the Middle East and in the post-Soviet  countries, and this reformatting will take place at an accelerated  pace, "he said.

The initiators of this global process, according to his estimates,  are already engaged in the tactics of fragmenting individual states:  Iraq, Libya, Syria into relatively small fragments. The analyst  believes that the power centers that oppose global reformatting will  try to slow the process of fragmentation. This will allow them to  gain time necessary to adapt to new challenges and to ensure the  possibility of subsequent absorption of some individual fragments  that are the products of such disintegration.  As an example, the  analyst noted so far a poorly developed model of behavior in the  maturing conditions of Russia around the Crimea and Donetsk with  Lugansk. In the same context, Melikyan also considers Moscow's  decision to grant Russian citizenship to all persons born in the  territory of the USSR. The same purpose, in his opinion, will be the  propaganda of imperial nostalgia for the Soviet Union, actively  practiced by the Russian media.