Pashinyan was not appointed for Armenia to do well — Yevgeny Satanovsky

 
Speaking with Alpha News, Russian political scientist Yevgeny Satanovsky commented on Armenian-Russian relations and Russia’s role in Armenian-Azerbaijani talks.
 
“Russia is losing the South Caucasus as a historical region in which it has been present for the last 300 years. Just like Kazakhstan and Central Asia. This is what happens at the moment. We do not know what will happen tomorrow. 

From Erdogan’s point of view, which is largely true, Turkey is acquiring Transcaucasia at the expense of Russia. But Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s appetites are much bigger. They extend to all those regions where the Ottoman Porte once was and to a significant part of the world that had nothing to do with Turkey, and its rulers periodically destroyed the Turkish sultans. But smart, cunning and stubborn Erdogan replaces the history that was with the history that he would like to see,” the expert stressed.

He believes that official Moscow no longer wants to host the talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and it has its own reasons for this.

“The Russian leadership does not consider it necessary to host meetings between Aliyev and Pashinyan. Why? Well, for example, because of our relations with Pashinyan. Because our relations with Aliyev have always been normal. But when Russia tried unsuccessfully to mediate despite the fact that conditions were better for the same Karabakh, even at the beginning of the Second Karabakh War, Pashinyan proudly refused and today has done almost everything to break relations with Moscow, if not to break, then to spoil to the limit. 

I call Nikol Pashinyan, from a historical point of view, the Armenian version of Mr. Zelensky for a reason. The Americans didn’t appoint him in Armenia’s favor. In the same way, Zelensky was not appointed for Ukraine to do well. Thank God our relations have not reached the level of Ukrainian-Russian or even Georgian-Russian relations. Maybe they will someday. It’s all a matter of money, effort, and political strategy,” Satanovsky concluded.