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 Thursday, June 24 2021 12:16
David Stepanyan

Forecast: Pashinyan has nowhere to turn. He will keep talking more  than doing

Forecast: Pashinyan has nowhere to turn. He will keep talking more  than doing

ArmInfo. During the rule of Armenia after the victory in the early parliamentary elections, the policy of Nikol Pashinyan's government towards Russia and the EAEU  and CSTO integration projects supervised by Moscow will not change.  Pashinyan will continue the course he took before the elections.  Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian  Academy of Sciences Alexander Skakov expressed a similar opinion to  ArmInfo.

"In support of this vision, I will simply note Pashinyan's lack of  political, geopolitical and other resources for the roll, especially  the turn of Armenian foreign policy from north to west. It is also  necessary to remember that the West in the geopolitical sense is,  first of all, NATO. NATO for Armenia - this is Turkey, and Turkey,  taking into account all the latest realities and geopolitical  transformations in the South Caucasus, is Azerbaijan, "he said.  In  this light, the Russian expert noted a significant strengthening of  Ankara's positions in the South Caucasus following the results of  last year's war in Karabakh. As well as a significant deepening of  cooperation between Turkey and Azerbaijan, in which Ankara, for  obvious reasons, plays a leading role.

"Whether Azerbaijan is satisfied with this state of affairs is a  separate question. The answer to which we will receive as a result of  analyzing the behavior of Baku in the near future. But in any case,  it is necessary to state that the Azerbaijani-Turkish relations have  taken a completely new level, surpassing the level of their relations  throughout the past. For Armenia and Pashinyan personally, all this  means one thing - there is simply nowhere to turn, "he stressed.

Skakov does not expect any special changes during Pashinyan's second  term in office and in domestic politics in Armenia. According to his  forecasts, as before, the prime minister will rearrange the figures  in the government, and, as before, will prefer to say more than to  do, trying to avoid a policy based on a single, well-thought-out  strategy in the form of a concept.

According to the preliminary results of the CEC, Pashinyan's "Civil  Contract" party won the early parliamentary elections in Armenia by  687,251 votes(53.92%) . Pashinyan won in all regions of Armenia,  including Yerevan. Of the remaining 25 political forces that took  part in the elections, only the "Armenia" bloc (by 268,165 votes-  21.04%) , and the "I Have Honor" bloc (5.23% ),  as the third force  provided by the legislation, will be represented in the new  parliament.  All other political forces together collected 15.7%.  Of  the 2.578 million citizens eligible to vote, 1,281,174 or 49.4% of  voters took part in the voting.

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