Even the most wonderful projects with Turkey will not affect Russia's position on the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict just because the South Caucasus and North Caucasus are connecting vessels of security, Head of the Center for Euro- Atlantic and Defense of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies Grigory Tischenko said in an online interview to ArmInfo.
"Russia's unexpected moves in Turkey are first of all an attempt to diversify economic and trade relations because of Europe's discriminatory policy, so, they will hardly grow into some big political projects. Putin's successful visit to Ankara was to a certain extent a result of progress in Russian-Armenian strategic partnership. Today Turkey has no military problems with Armenia, which is something it has always dreamed of considering the trouble spots it has near its southeastern and eastern borders," Tischenko said.
He said that what Turkey needs today is Russian markets, gas transit, a condominium with Russia in the Black Sea, but not Armenia. The only thing the Turks may want from the Russians now, in Tischenko's opinion, is not to make too much noise about the Armenian Genocide during its centennial.
"Today Turkey's military security is facing terrible problems: Syria, Kurds, Iraq, Iran, ISIL fighters. But Russia will not be its active ally on any of them. The only area Turkey and Russian may cooperate in the military is the Black Sea," Tischenko said.
Concerning NATO, he said that it is an old geopolitical invalid, whose only role now is to ensure the United States' military dominance in Europe at the expense of the Europeans.