ArmInfo. Remaining in the EAEU and the CSTO, Armenia will demand and receive all that is entitled to this membership. Expert at the Armenian Institute of International Relations and Security, Ruben Mehrabyan, expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.
"Of course, this looks ridiculous, but in Russia any step of Armenia towards and in the name of its own sovereignty is considered a manifestation of a "hybrid war.'' Whatsoever, that unilaterally does not proceed from the interests of Moscow, all that is called by their own names, is called by the Russians a hybrid war. And this is in the conditions of irremovability of our country's foreign policy, confirmation of its membership in the EAEU and the CSTO. However, at the same time, Armenia will demand the observance of all that is entitled to this membership, to the maximum, "he stressed.
In this light, Mehrabyan considers it necessary to reduce the degree of Armenia's dependence on its northern ally, if possible. According to his estimates, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan inherited a very disappointing legacy from his predecessors not only in terms of resolving the Artsakh conflict, but also in almost all other vectors of foreign policy, in particular, the vectors of national security policies with the participation of Russia. "The policy, in which the" power instead of sovereignty" formulation followed the "power instead of sovereignty "I can only describe as degenerate. One bunch of degenerates has succeeded another over the past 20 years. And I am not trying to offend anyone here, I give only an assessment of the phenomenon, since only degenerates could handle the sovereignty of the country in this way. Pashinyan got all the "lovely" consequences of such a policy in all directions, primarily in the process of resolving the Artsakh conflict, "the expert concluded. Since 1992, the OSCE Minsk Group, represented by the co-chairs from Russia, the USA and France, has been engaged in the settlement of the Karabakh conflict. Currently, the settlement process is nominally taking place on the basis of the Madrid Principles put forward by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs in 2007 and updated in 2009