WASHINGTON, D.C. – Russia is selling weapons to all parties to Karabakh conflict, and 38 flights have been operated from the territory of Montenegro, senior fellow of the American Foreign Policy Council Stephen Blank said.

The planes were carrying weapons for the conflicting parties, expert said during “Security and Energy Implications for the South Caucasus after Ukraine” conference cosponsored by the Kennan Institute.

While Azerbaijan is purchasing from Russia modern weapons at high prices, the Armenian side is buying more obsolete weapons, but at extremely affordable prices, Blank said.

The expert emphasized that Azerbaijan indirectly helps Armenia to buy weapons from Russia at low prices, the Armenian News-NEWS.am correspondent reports from Washington. If hostilities resume in Karabakh, Russia can interfere directly, and this will lead to greater problems than the war itself.

The American experts are confident that Russia is not interested in the settlement of Karabakh conflict. Moscow is much more interested in preserving a frozen conflict, says Jeffrey Mankoff, deputy director and fellow with the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program.

According to the experts, after the Ukrainian events, Russia sent a strong message that they can destroy any country of the South Caucasus if it is necessary, and the West will not help. They voice criticism against official Washington's inactive role in the South Caucasus which is considered as weakness.

Washington's indifference to the South Caucasus countries will be perceived as evidence of America's weakness, which leads to strengthening of positions of Russia and Iran in the region, and meanwhile, stability in the South Caucasus is essential to the security of the United States, said Michael Rubin, an expert of the American Enterprise Institute.

In turn, the expert of Woodrow Wilson Center Audrey Altstadt offered Washington to make the sides seat at negotiating table and facilitate direct negotiations between the parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, without waiting for the mediation efforts.