ArmInfo. Arman Melikyan, the former foreign minister of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic believes that the old model of security and interests in the South Caucasus has been breached and Moscow will not manage to restore it.
Talking to ArmInfo, Melikyan said the incumbent leadership of Russia does it utmost not to let the military-political, economic and ethnic-cultural influence of Turkey go beyond the borders determined by the Moscow and Kars Treaties in 1921, the borders that became Soviet-Turkish after 1922.
"Yet, it is quite clear that losing foothold in Georgia, Russia has no chances to do it. Even if it manages to gain temporary foothold in Azerbaijan with the help of Iran, this is an inherently lost cause, as the old model of security and protection of interests in the South Caucasus has been breached and the Russian leadership will not manage to restore it," Melikyan says.
In his words, the Kremlin will manage to make effective counteractions only after it reconsiders its basic worldview approaches fundamentally. However, it does not look like Moscow is going to do it so far.