Forecast from Moscow: Russia will not openly interfere in internal  political developments in Armenia

ArmInfo.Serious changes in the situation around Ukraine require the Russian Federation to clearly define with whom Moscow intends to work in Armenia. Russian expert on  the Caucasus Andrei Areshev expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.

" It is known that the problems related to the Prime Minister of  Armenia Pashinyan arose not yesterday.  However, I am not at all  inclined to believe that Moscow will openly interfere in internal  political developments in Armenia. It seems necessary for the Russian  Federation to work with the entire political spectrum and  organizations. I think we should put aside our wrong practice of  working exclusively with the country's authorities, not only in the  case of Armenia, but also in the case of any other country. This  policy has already demonstrated its ineffectiveness, both in the case  of Ukraine and in the case of other countries," he said.

In this light, Areshev forecasts Moscow's expectantly neutral rather  than active stance on the protests in Armenia. He considers it  unlikely that Russia will openly support the opposition or the  authorities, considering that it will act according to the situation. 

In general, the expert considers the developments taking place in  Armenia quite expected, especially in the light of the almost  unceasing struggle over the past four years between the ruling force  and the opposition.  According to the expert, the head of government,  in turn, with his rash statements and actions did everything in the  direction of destroying his own post-revolutionary rating. And  according to Areshev, as of today, the ruling party and the  government of Pashinyan, have serious problems, due, among other  things, to the failure of the government of many programs in the  direction of economic development.  

"It is clear that all this together strengthens the resistance  movement. And it can already be stated that it has gone beyond the  electorate of the "Hayastan "and "I have the Honor" blocs, and  various segments of the population are joining it. The authorities,  in their turn, apparently, as a result of removing their own  supporters from them for many years, continue to rely on public  apathy. And in the conditions of the spread of total disinformation,  it is extremely difficult to predict today how all this may end  tomorrow," Russian expert on the Caucasus summed.