ArmInfo. In the event of a confrontation between Moscow and Ankara, Armenia and Azerbaijan will be in the role of a proxy. Director of the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) at Russian Academy of Sciences Professor Feodor Voitolovsky expressed a similar opinion at the Geopolitical Session "Armenia and Russia: Imperative of a New Strategy" held at the Russian-Armenian University (RAU) in Yerevan.
ArmInfo. There is no reason to expect an early exit from the current state of geopolitical turbulence in the South Caucasus. Political scientist Stepan Danielyan expressed this opinion to ArmInfo.
ArmInfo. The search for common interests by Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan seems to have no alternative. Because only in this way, we will all together be able to develop our region, the South Caucasus, with common benefit and in common interests. A similar opinion was expressed to ArmInfo by Senior Researcher at the Tbilisi Centre for Social Studies""(CSS), Professor Marina Muskhelishvili.
ArmInfo. In the coming years, I do not expect another big war around Nagorno-Karabakh. Nikolay Silaev, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Studies of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of the Russian Foreign Ministry, expressed this to ArmInfo.
ArmInfo.The Indian leadership is well aware of the importance of its own mission in keeping Syunik together with Armenia and Iran and in getting the beaten path from south to north. An independent political analyst Saro Saroyan expressed this opinion to ArmInfo, commenting on the forthcoming visit of the Indian Foreign Minister to Armenia.
ArmInfo.In Moscow, Putin and Pashinyan, apparently, will discuss the development of two trilateral formats with the participation of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. A similar opinion was expressed to ArmInfo by Head of Armenian Institute of International and Security Affairs (AIISA) Stepan (Styopa) Safaryan.
ArmInfo.Participation in the proposed regional "3 + 3" format will in no way prevent Moscow from squeezing Ankara out at the first opportunity, if not completely ousting it from the South Caucasus. A senior analyst at the Georgian Strategic Analysis Center (GSAC) Gela Vasadze expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.
ArmInfo.The idea of concessions on Karabakh arose in the Armenian political discourse from the moment of the definition of political identity, the construction of a state in Armenia by this very Karabakh. Sergey Markedonov, the leading researcher at the Euro-Atlantic Security Center of the MGIMO Institute for International Studies, expressed this opinion at the international "Caucasus in the 21st Century" conference organized by the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan. "In my opinion, the concessions on Karabakh are far from the result of the events of 2020, it all started much earlier.
ArmInfo.The problems of Armenia and Azerbaijan are by no means limited to Karabakh. Sergey Markedonov is the leading researcher at the Euro-Atlantic Security Center of the MGIMO Institute for International Studies, expressed this opinion at the international "Caucasus in the 21st Century" conference organized by the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan.