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Armenian experts on Russia's further policy
tert.am
16:14 - 06.03.12
Russia is unlikely change its policy toward the other members of the
Commonwealth of Independnent States (CIS), particularly Armenia,
because no serious cabinet reshuffle is expected, Alexander
Iskandaryan, Director of the Caucasus Institute, said during a
Yerevan-Moscow-Kiev-Astana space bridge on `Russia and CIS: new
scenario of relations.'
`Russia is important for Armenia, and the relations need to remain
traditional,' Iskandaryan said. Armenia is interested in Russia's
predictable domestic policy and traditional foreign policy, as Russia
is Armenia's major strategic partner.
With repect to Russia's ties with its neighbors and the CIS
member-states as its foreign-policy priorities Iskandaryan said that
neither `Medvedev's' nor `Putin's' foreign policy has ever existed.
`Decisions have always been, to put it mildly, concerted ones,' the
Armenian expert said.
As regards Russia's policy in the South Caucasus, Alexander Markarov,
Dirdctor of the Armenia branch, CIS Institute, does not expect any
essential changes.
`A different leader, but the same content,' Markarov said. The
`leader's style' is the only difference between Vladimir Putin and
Dmitri Medvedev, he added.
Russia will focus its policy in the South Caucasus on retaining its
positions, with further development of bilateral political, economic
and humanitarian cooperation, Markarov said.
Not only bilateral relations, but also multilateral cooperation,
particularly, cooperation within the CIS and Collective Security
Treaty Organization (CSTO) will play a decisive role in Russia's
policy in the post-Soviet area, the expert said.
tert.am
16:14 - 06.03.12
Russia is unlikely change its policy toward the other members of the
Commonwealth of Independnent States (CIS), particularly Armenia,
because no serious cabinet reshuffle is expected, Alexander
Iskandaryan, Director of the Caucasus Institute, said during a
Yerevan-Moscow-Kiev-Astana space bridge on `Russia and CIS: new
scenario of relations.'
`Russia is important for Armenia, and the relations need to remain
traditional,' Iskandaryan said. Armenia is interested in Russia's
predictable domestic policy and traditional foreign policy, as Russia
is Armenia's major strategic partner.
With repect to Russia's ties with its neighbors and the CIS
member-states as its foreign-policy priorities Iskandaryan said that
neither `Medvedev's' nor `Putin's' foreign policy has ever existed.
`Decisions have always been, to put it mildly, concerted ones,' the
Armenian expert said.
As regards Russia's policy in the South Caucasus, Alexander Markarov,
Dirdctor of the Armenia branch, CIS Institute, does not expect any
essential changes.
`A different leader, but the same content,' Markarov said. The
`leader's style' is the only difference between Vladimir Putin and
Dmitri Medvedev, he added.
Russia will focus its policy in the South Caucasus on retaining its
positions, with further development of bilateral political, economic
and humanitarian cooperation, Markarov said.
Not only bilateral relations, but also multilateral cooperation,
particularly, cooperation within the CIS and Collective Security
Treaty Organization (CSTO) will play a decisive role in Russia's
policy in the post-Soviet area, the expert said.