Sociologist: Formation of anti-Russian sentiments has become  irreversible in Armenia

ArmInfo.Russia's failure to fulfill its obligations assumed by Moscow under the 1997 Treaty with Armenia now has absolutely the same reasons as failure to fulfill its  obligations in the past - Russia has simply not been a strategic ally  of Armenia for a long time.

And it is extremely important to understand that this state of affairs is in no way conditioned by the relations of Armenia's leadership with Moscow. Sociologist Karen  Sargsyan expressed this opinion to ArmInfo.

"This is due to the changes in Russian policy that took place as a  result and after the famous Munich speech of Russian President Putin  in 2007. This was followed by the well-known actions of Russia in  Georgia and Ukraine for several years. I do not know for what reasons  the current Russian elite considers it permissible for itself to  neglect the agreements it has concluded at the international level.  But since 2014, when the Russian Federation simply forgot about the  existence of as many as three interstate treaties with Ukraine and  carried out the secession of Crimea, it became finally clear that  Armenia should definitely not expect much from treaties with the  Russian Federation, "he said.

In this light, sociologist described as completely groundless the  expectations of a certain part of the Armenian society according to  which " at least, Russia may still save Armenia, from the Turkish  yataghan at the last moment ". And this is also due to the low level  of awareness of the Armenian society, for which no small "merit",  unfortunately, belongs to the Armenian mass media. For example, the  presentation of the entire flow of international information from the  news feeds of Russian colleagues, moreover, without any filtering.

The current dissatisfaction and even indignation of the Armenian  society with the de facto inaction of the strategic ally in the light  of another act of military aggression by Azerbaijan against Armenia,  the sociologist explains by the inconsistency of the current hopes  and current realities in the society.  Expectations of salvation from  a savior in the foundation of which initially there was not a single  grain of rationality, if only because Bolshevik Russia never saved  anyone in its entire history.

"First of all, we need to understand for ourselves one thing that is  extremely clear for Russia itself - Russia has no allies. Russia only  has partners. In this particular case, it is Erdogan's Turkey, with  which Putin's Russia has a common and very specific interest in  squeezing the West out of the entire Black Sea region. And projecting  the joint actions of the Russian Federation and Turkey in the region,  in general, on the situation around Armenia, everything finally  becomes clear. And starting from the current moods in our society, we  have to admit that the progressive decline in sympathy towards the  Russian Federation and the formation of anti-Russian sentiments in  Armenia has become irreversible. This is neither good nor bad - this  is a fact, " the sociologist summed up.