ArmInfo.It should be noted that the clashes on November 16 were preceded by information about the Putin-Pashinyan-Aliyev meeting. And, judging by the insider information, it can be stated that the Armenian Prime Minister rejected it at the very last moment.
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.
ArmInfo. As a result of the next escalation of the situation on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, we have to state that it was the situation on the border that came to the fore, bypassing Karabakh. It will be more difficult to untie the border knot between Armenia and Azerbaijan than even the Karabakh one.
ArmInfo.Several causes account for the latest armed escalation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, the military expert Vladimir Yevseyev, Head of the Caucasus Section, CIS Institute, told ArmInfo.
ArmInfo.The global silence and international organizations` passive attitude, their unaddressed appeals to the "parties to escalation" to stop, leave Armenia with only way-out, namely, standing up to Azerbaijan`s armed aggression, Stepan Safaryan, Director of the Armenian Institute of International and Security Affairs, told ArmInfo.
ArmInfo.The main reason for the current military escalation on the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan is the cancellation of the trilateral online meeting of the leaders of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan, announced by press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation. Director of the Caucasus Institute Alexander Iskandaryan expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.
ArmInfo.Failing to get a "peace treaty" from Armenia, in the sense in which it is imagined by Baku, Azerbaijan is quite capable of starting a large-scale war against Armenia. Arkady Dubnov, a Russian expert on the CIS countries, expressed this to ArmInfo.
ArmInfo.All the recent actions of the opposition are not motivated by anything, and, accordingly, they are not able to have an effect on overcoming the existing problems in Armenia and the current internal political crisis. On the contrary, they are aimed at further aggravating them. A similar opinion was expressed to ArmInfo by the public and political figure Garegin Miskaryan.
ArmInfo.Armenia's withdrawal from the current, constantly aggravating security problems is primarily due to the change in psychology, respectively, in the thinking of our leadership. Independent analyst Saro Saroyan expressed this opinion to ArmInfo.
ArmInfo. Having made the choice between the bad and the worst in the early parliamentary elections in June, limited by two political forces, the Armenian voter drove himself into a dead end with his own hand. A similar opinion was expressed to ArmInfo by public and political figure Suren Sahakyan.