YEREVAN. – Haykakan Zhamanak daily spoke with Ukraine’s First Ambassador to Armenia, Alexander Bozhko. Below is an excerpt from the interview.  

“There are views that Russia wants to maintain power in the region and puts the pressure method into action for that. What do you think? Will Russia succeed in achieving its goal?       

“It seems to me that by putting pressure on Armenia and Ukraine, Russia solely slowed down these countries’ course leading to Europe. [But] you cannot rotate the laws of social development backward, return to the former USSR alternative, which has depleted itself, since Russia’s economic and technological resources will not be enough for it. Unfortunately, we, together with you again, are appearing in the ‘gray zone,’ albeit European integration could have given our countries the necessary economic development dynamics and the social development prospects.”