ArmInfo."The age-old challenges facing the Armenian and Russian peoples are still relevant today," editor-in-chief of the Sevodnya.ru portal, a well-known military observer Yuri Kotenok said at a press conference.
According to the war correspondent, now the society in Armenia is split and the country is in a rather difficult situation. "However, I believe that the country will be able to overcome this situation, move along the path of creation and begin to develop allied relations with Russia.
Now it is necessary to overcome the split in the society caused by the situation related to Artsakh. All this affects people's mood. The Armenian Apostolic Church and the Catholicos of All Armenians should play their role in the consolidation of the nation. They will be able to keep people from chaos and destabilization, " Kotenok said.
"Now the country has claims to the authorities. But I would like to note that "Maidans" will not benefit the Armenian people. We all see what such phenomena lead to. And the chance, it seems to me, is in strengthening relations with Russia. They say that friends are known in trouble. During the second Karabakh war, it was Russia that brought a peacekeeping contingent to Artsakh. It seems to me that Armenia has the right to strengthen military-political cooperation with Russia. You can conclude a new union agreement, you can hold a referendum in the country to strengthen relations with Russia," the expert said.
He stressed that the international community is not capable of really helping Armenia. Russia is also constrained by some circumstances, however, this did not prevent it from quickly deploying a peacekeeping contingent to Artsakh, which saved the people from the threat of genocide," Kotenok said . According to him, now the country needs to get out of the destructiveness and search for the culprit in the current situation. "Of course, it is necessary to understand why the situation with the surrender of territories has developed. There were both objective and subjective reasons for this. Huge claims to the military leadership and Armenia needs to reform its Armed Forces. To re-equip with modern models of military weapons and military equipment, since the war showed that the Armenian people did not always manage to cope with the challenges that were thrown down. There are big problems militarily and they are obvious, "the war correspondent emphasized.