ArmInfo. Should a referendum on joining Russia take place in Artsakh, Russia has every chance to win, the independent analyst Armen Hovhannisyan said in an interview with ArmInfo.
ArmInfo.Regardless of all the accompanying circumstances, threats, challenges to the national security of Armenia and Artsakh, regardless of the current geopolitical circumstances, it should be understood that another Azerbaijani-Turkish attack will have serious consequences. Independent analyst Saro Saroyan expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.
ArmInfo.Unlike the Tripartite Statement that ended the 44-day war, the peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan will most likely not be concluded under the auspices of the Russian Federation. A similar opinion was expressed to ArmInfo by chief researcher of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, orientalist Alexey Malashenko.
ArmInfo.Geopolitical instability in Eurasia will continue for another ten years. Accordingly, we must be prepared to withstand shocks throughout this period. Former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Artsakh, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Arman Melikyan expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.
ArmInfo. The current developments in Ukraine are quite capable of generating hostilities and clashes in Artsakh. And the more the conflict continues in and around Ukraine, the more the likelihood of such a possibility increases. Garik Keryan political scientist, chair of the Department of Political Institutions and Processes of the YSU Faculty of International Relations told ArmInfo.
ArmInfo. Despite the fact that the current crisis around Nagorno- Karabakh is clearly not provoked by the situation in Ukraine, and the settlement of this conflict will be within its own logic, it would be wrong to completely deny the influence of the Ukrainian factor in all this. Sergei Markedonov, Leading Researcher at the MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Editor- in-Chief of the Journal of International Analytic told Arminfo
ArmInfo. Describing its own advance in the direction of the village of Parukh as a "clarification of positions", Baku simultaneously demands the withdrawal of all Armenian military presence from Artsakh.
ArmInfo. The talks of the Armenian authorities about peace with Azerbaijan, if they are not accompanied by concrete steps towards the strengthening of Armenia, are a false category. Political scientist Robert Ghevondyan expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.
ArmInfo. As soon as Russia hands over Artsakh to Azerbaijan, it will immediately become superfluous in Armenia. Conservative Party Chairman Mikayel Hayrapetyan expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.