Epress.am News from Armenia
Russia is changing, it’s already changed, but it won’t turn its attention on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, said Yerevan-based Caucasus Institute Director Alexander Iskandaryan, speaking to journalists in the Armenian capital on Jan. 10.
In the analyst’s opinion, Russia will isolate itself more in the near future. “The political elite will focus on internal issues and will pay less attention to foreign policies — including the South Caucasus region. Russia presently already has huge issues in its budget and economy. These will extend until the elections, and then the new president will face these issues.”
Iskandaryan isn’t expecting drastic progress in the Nagorno-Karabakh issue at the possible meeting of the presidents of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan in the Russian resort city of Sochi at the end of this month — “if a force majeure situation isn’t created, which I cannot imagine.”
The analyst characterized the current state of the resolution of the Karabakh conflict as a process of stagnation, which, in his opinion, will continue also in 2012.