Russia has no interest in inflaming Karabakh conflict, says American expert
I do not believe Russia has an interest in inflaming the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, American analyst, professor in several universities Gordon Hahn said at an internet press conference organized by “Region” Research Center.
“The conflict is largely local and built on interethnic distrust between Baku and Yerevan and the legacy of Soviet state-building,” he said.
In his words, unless Yerevan and Baku can come to terms on their own, then with Russia’s close ties to Armenia long-standing and now further consolidated under the EEU, there are only two options.
According to the analyst, the first is “continued conflict driven by the parties themselves and/or by competition between Russia and the West with the latter taking Azerbaijan’s side to counter the Russian-Armenian alliance,” while the second is “a resolution of the conflict sponsored and guaranteed by Russia.”