News
Newsfeed
News
Thursday
March 28
Show news feed

The pandemic wasn’t the only reason why the leader of Armenia didn’t attend the Moscow Victory Day Parade, even though the coronavirus situation in Armenia is very serious. This is what leading researcher at the MGIMO Institute for International Studies Sergey Markedonov declared during a teleconference.

According to him, the relations between Russia and Armenia are serious strategic relations, not relations of persons or groups, and they trace back to 90 years.

“The participation of Armenia’s leader in the parade isn’t an extreme issue. What is important is the participation of the Armed Forces of Armenia. Primary figures come and go, but strategic relations remain. There are issues, including the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, military-technical cooperation and settlement of the situation in the Middle East. There might be someone who doesn’t like Russia, but this isn’t above strategic relations,” he stated.

The analyst added that the issue needs to be viewed from the perspective of the domestic political situation in Armenia, including the change of the composition of the Constitutional Court.

“All these factors, as well as the coronavirus were the reason why Nikol Pashinyan didn’t participate in the parade. The leaders of the former Soviet republics aren’t secretaries of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. They are the heads of independent states and make decisions on their own,” Markedonov concluded.

!
This text available in   Հայերեն and Русский
Print
Read more:
All