Armenia has been treading the path of Ukraine for a long time, political scientist Yury Svetov told Izvestiya.
According to him, Pashinyan came to power in 2018 with a very clear goal: to separate Armenia from Russia and move toward the West. According to the expert, Nagorno-Karabakh was a burden on Armenia, which Pashinyan wanted to remove.
“Pashinyan clearly decided that this burden should be lifted. He lost the conflict with Azerbaijan; he was not going to defend Karabakh, did not recognize it and did not show real support. As a result, the people left Karabakh,” Svetov said. At the same time, Pashinyan blamed Russia for the loss of Nagorno-Karabakh.
According to the expert, this is “a rather unpleasant situation.”
“And throughout the past year, the secretary of the Security Council, Grigoryan, traveled to the U.S. for negotiations. Moreover, Armenia has the largest U.S. embassy in post-Soviet territory. Now announcements are being made that he does not need the CSTO; he is going to attend the NATO summit. It was all leading up to this. In addition, a strategic partnership agreement is being signed with the U.S.,” the expert noted.
“Here, of course, it is important how Turkey and Iran will act. We have no border with Armenia; we can communicate with it only via Georgia, Turkey, and Iran. I think that the latest meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan did not pass without the discussion of the Armenian issue,” the political scientist noted.
