ArmInfo.Russia has always played a very active role in the settlement of the Karabakh conflict. This May 23 at a press briefing said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, responding to a journalist's question about whether Russia is going to play first fiddle in the Karabakh settlement in the near future.
"Russia has always played a very active role in the settlement of the Karabakh conflict, there is no desire to play any violin in the numbered order.There is a desire to bring the settlement closer to those ways that are recognized as civilized and really would be tested for its effectiveness. We played a very active role, and we will continue to do so," the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry said.