View from Moscow: The key to the continued existence of Armenia is  the revision of its relations with Russia

ArmInfo. If Armenia really strives to get out of its current situation, which is already threatening the very existence of the Armenian statehood, Yerevan needs an immediate  revision of relations with Moscow. Director of the EurAsEC-EAEU  Institute Vladimir Lepekhin expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.

"The essence of this revision is the formation between Armenia and  the Russian Federation of a qualitatively new military-political  treaty, in which the interests of Artsakh would be taken into account  in a separate line. However, as far as I understand the situation,  the current Armenian administration does not need such an agreement.  Meanwhile, it is important to emphasize that Russia provides full  support only to the sovereignty of countries struggling with the  prospect of absorption from the collective West," he stressed.

The political scientist emphasized that we are talking about  countries that officially turn to Moscow for help. In this light, he  singled out Syria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, etc. According to  Lepekhin, Moscow's passivity in relation to the current situation  around Armenia is primarily due to the complete lack of desire to  resist the prospect of absorption of NATO and aggressive neighbors in  Armenia itself.

" We see that Russia defended Artsakh, which opposeed Azerbaijan. But  it cannot do the same with respect to the factually pro-Western  Armenia. Even if Russia respects led by pro-Western politicians, but  the legitimate government in Yerevan, it simply cannot provide  Armenia with large-scale support,"  he stressed.

According to Lepekhin, in this light, the role of Russia was reduced  to active assistance in ending last year's war. And in the same  trilateral statement of the heads of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan,  there is not a single line about the further fate of Artsakh, which  is not mentioned at all in this document. As a result, there are no  negotiations on the future fate, on the status of Artsakh even today.  Yerevan is silent, and Baku simply demands to surrender Artsakh to it  completely.  

"The future of Artsakh, and of Armenia itself, in the light of such  geopolitical realities, no doubt does not inspire optimism. And, in  the current  the Armenian line, I do not see  any special  alternatives for the implementation of the the so-called Georgian  scenario, which, by the way, is no longer limited Adzharia alone. Turkey will increase its presence and gradually assimilate the  population of Armenia, up to the transformation of the country into  its own protectorate," Lepekhin summed up.