{"id":87075,"date":"2024-09-02T15:48:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T11:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=87075"},"modified":"2024-09-02T18:04:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T14:04:12","slug":"markov-baku-has-become-moscows-main-ally-in-the-south-caucasus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/87075\/","title":{"rendered":"Markov: Baku has become Moscow\u2019s main ally in the South Caucasus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The results of the parliamentary election in Azerbaijan will have a positive impact on relations with Russia, Sergei Markov, the director of the Institute of Political Studies, said in a conversation with NEWS.ru<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to him, after Armenia turned toward the West, Baku became Moscow’s main ally in the South Caucasus.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Milli Majlis deputies are in a new political situation, when intense rapprochement is being observed between Russia and Azerbaijan. President Putin’s state visit to Baku in August marked a new political reality. Currently, Russia’s main ally in the South Caucasus is Azerbaijan, not Armenia,” Markov stated, claiming that Western countries also have a pro-Armenian stance, and Baku understands that. The parliament is being formed on the basis of the intention to continue the closeness with Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n

To remind<\/a>, the country’s ruling New Azerbaijan Party, led by President Ilham Aliyev, secured 68 out of 125 seats in the Milli Majlis (Parliament) in the snap election held on Sept. 1.<\/span><\/p>\n

Voter turnout was 37.27%. There is no voter turnout threshold in Azerbaijan, and an election is recognized as held regardless of voter turnout.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The results of the parliamentary election in Azerbaijan will have a positive impact on relations with Russia, Sergei Markov, the director of the Institute of Political Studies, said in a conversation with NEWS.ru. According to him, after Armenia turned toward the West, Baku became Moscow’s main ally in the South Caucasus. “The Milli Majlis deputies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,95,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-azerbeijan","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}