Russia is fully capable of preventing the escalation of the armed conflict in the zone of the Karabakh conflict.  

Expert of the Anatoly Sobchak Fund, Sergey Stankevich, who is also the Party of Growth council member, said the aforementioned at the press-conference organized for Armenian media outlets by Region Research Center, responding to the Armenian News – NEWS.am question as to how will the improvement of the Turkish-Russian relations impact the Karabakh conflict settlement and whether that will be a constraining factor for Baku.

But Russia, in his words, cannot accelerate the diplomatic settlement of the conflict on its own.

“Here it will be necessary to again rely on the OSCE Minsk Group on Nagorno-Karabakh and the additional diplomatic efforts of Russia and France. The Karabakh conflict itself belongs to the relatively rare type of “three-generation conflict” in the world history. In the conditions of the ceasefire, at least three generations should be changed on both sides before the final and long-lasting settlement becomes possible,” Stankevich noted.

Indeed, everyone will have to arm themselves with patience, he continued. “Neither the conflicting parties, nor Russia and not even the West want the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to become another platform of resistance between Russia and the West,” Stankevich added.