The new cold war is already developing. But everybody keep up appearances. However, the existing platforms for removal of disagreements do not work, Russian political expert, deputy director of PIR - Centre for International Studies, Dmitriy Polikanov, said at today's Internet press-conference.
"Neither UN, nor OSCE or "seven"and "twenty" can settle the available crises and are not an instrument for making arrangements. The competition between different poles will grow. In fact, there are three big poles. The first, chiefly the Anglo-Saxondom, consists of the USA and its allies, which protect a certain collection of moral principles and their right to render justice on the basis of these principles. The second pole consists of Russia, China and other members of BRIC, which protect more ordinary, conservative and traditional values. The third pole is an Islam world: ISIL, radical Syrian opposition, which protect their own code, that meets or does not meet the first two poles",- he said.
These poles have been still fighting each other and building walls. No "iron curtains" have been built, at least, the Russian party does not want that. But the cold war has been developing at the level of the information war and the war for the conscious of a man. In this context, he said that small countries should be maximally neutral in the cold war between the West and Russia. "Everybody were pleased with Ukraine's status-quo, when it had an out of the bloc status and could play a part of a bridge between the West and East. But as soon as this fragile balance was broken, a sharp confrontation appeared", - he said. He thinks that another tactic of small countries should be resolving of their own problems at the expense of disagreements between the big actors.
"The crisis in Ukraine has shown that the machinery at least at the OSCE platform, which would make it possible to find mutually acceptable solution of such conflicts, did not function. I think that Karabakh as well will not avoid that, especially when the parties to the conflict will accumulate forces for such confrontation. There will be also external provocations, as the West is not pleased with Eurasian Economic Union and with the fact of Armenia's joining EEU. So, they will try to destabilize the situation",- Polikanov said.