ArmInfo. The current domestic political situation could be described as reciprocal trolling involving Armenia`s authorities and opposition, Alexandr Iskandaryan, Director of the Institute of Caucasus, told ArmInfo.
ArmInfo.The West-orchestrated geopolitical struggle round the status of Nagorno-Karabakh could well turn into acrimonious struggle capable of changing numerous facts of real life, the orientalist Alexey Malashenko, Head of the Dialogue of Civilizations research center, told ArmInfo.
ArmInfo. Against the background of the violation of the balance of power established in 1994 in the region, the fact that the South Caucasus is just entering a period of serious geopolitical breakdown and reformatting, any spark on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, in Georgia or Iran can serve as a trigger for the resumption of hostilities. Former Foreign Minister of Artsakh, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Arman Melikyan expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.
ArmInfo.The 21-kilometer section of the Azerbaijani-controlled Goris-Kapan road will soon become unusable. Head of the Public Council of Armenia, founder of Armenian Institute of International and Security Affairs (AIISA) Styopa (Stepan Safaryan told ArmInfo
ArmInfo. Of course, there is no point in expecting breakthroughs following the regional visit of U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Erika Olson to the Transcaucasian countries on November 2-4. However, it is premature to write Washington off from South Caucasus. A similar opinion was expressed to ArmInfo by Sergey Markedonov, Leading Researcher at the Euro- Atlantic Security Center of the MGIMO Institute for International Studies.
ArmInfo. I think that, sooner or later, a meeting between Nikol Pashinyan, Vladimir Putin and Ilkham Aliyev will take place, and a document will certainly be signed, Mikael Hayrapetyan, Chairman of the Conservative Party of Armenia, told ArmInfo.
ArmInfo.On November 3-4, Erika Olson, Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, by all appearances, bought the new ideas of the U.S. policy in the South Caucasus.
ArmInfo.Professor of the Georgian Technical University, Doctor of International Relations, Conflictologist Amiran Khevtsuriani, in an interview with ArmInfo, comments on the latest internal political impulses in Georgia. He forecasts the prospects of the "3 + 3" format, Georgia's participation in the communication projects promoted by Russia as well as shares his vision of the future of Armenia and Georgia.
ArmInfo. The question is not at all when and where Nikol Pashinyan and Ilham Aliyev will meet, but what resources Armenia has to defend its own interests and positions at this meeting. Director of the Caucasus Institute Alexander Iskandaryan expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.