Demanding compensation is meaningless. Damage is caused to the three parties of the conflict: Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Nagorno-Karabakh, Russian political scientist Alexander Skakov told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Commenting on Azerbaijani analyst Shelale Hasanova’s statement that Azerbaijan should demand compensation from Armenia at international level, he stressed: “This is stupid, nothing more; this cannot and will not have any result. Compensation is possible if there is an aggressor country, like what happened, for example, with Germany after the First, or the Second World War.” 

Skakov added that in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, however, there is no and there has not been an aggressor country. 

“There was a situation of the collapse of the Soviet Union. In reality, this is simply a transition from a civil war within a country to a war for the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh,” the Russian analyst noted.