ArmInfo.There is nothing to replace Armenia in the South Caucasus. This opinion, speaking at the round table in Yerevan "Armenia, 2 years in the EEU" was expressed by the Director of the Caucasus Institute Alexander Iskandaryan.
"Armenia can not play the role of Yerevan, neither Abkhazia nor South Ossetia, nor Azerbaijan, let alone Georgia." Yes, Armenia is a small country, however, with the current goal-setting of the Russian elite, Armenia is now a necessity for Russia. absence of the EAEC, the situation for Armenia would be, say, somewhat different, "he said.
In this light, the political scientist assesses the EAEC as one of the formats of interaction between Armenia and Russia, considering the union as part of a rather complicated "cabbage" regime, which also includes CSTO and direct Armenian-Russian relations.
Noting the inexpediency of parallels and the very comparison of EAEC with the European Union, Iskandaryan described the EAEC as a wheel without a rim, emphasizing the prevalence of one state in the organization. According to him, in virtually all political, military and economic parameters, Russia bypasses the remaining countries of the EAEC combined.
"This is just one of the problems of this education, but the existence of such problems looks quite normal, and today the EAEC is developing in three conventional vectors: the Belarus, the Caucasus - Armenia and the Central Asian - Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, which is just one of the features of this integration education" , - Iskandaryan summed up.