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RUSSIAN ANALYST: MOSCOW AND YEREVAN TO SERIOUSLY DISCUSS THE MATTER OF SERZH SARGSYAN'S POSSIBLE SUCCESSOR
by David Stepanyan
Wednesday, April 15, 12:29
The matter of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan's successor will
become a topic for serious discussion of Moscow and Yerevan, Russian
political expert Sergey Markedonov has told ArmInfo.
"Naturally, the discussion will cover other issues as well. Yerevan
will immediately raise the issue of its acquisitions and expenses in
its integration with Russia and the Eurasian partners. I think Moscow
will be unable to speak in generalities this time," he says.
The analyst thinks that the Kremlin should give serious considerations
to the forthcoming electoral cycle in Armenia in 2017-18 and should
start the preparations beforehand, both strategically and in PR
campaigns. Markedonov stresses the need to establish contacts with
all political associations, non-governmental and youth structures of
the republic.
Markedonov thinks that Russia should give up constantly declaring
the success of its alliance with Armenia given the fact that now
the situation in the Transcaucasia depends on external factors more
than ever. He says that the fate of the protracted conflicts and the
prospects of the post-Soviet integration projects are mostly hanging
in the balance in Donbass.
"So, along with removing the wrinkles in the Russia-Armenia relations,
Moscow gives high priority to a positive dynamics in Ukraine, at
least reached through long-term "freezing" of the conflict around
the Luhansk and Donetsk regions," he says.
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by David Stepanyan
Wednesday, April 15, 12:29
The matter of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan's successor will
become a topic for serious discussion of Moscow and Yerevan, Russian
political expert Sergey Markedonov has told ArmInfo.
"Naturally, the discussion will cover other issues as well. Yerevan
will immediately raise the issue of its acquisitions and expenses in
its integration with Russia and the Eurasian partners. I think Moscow
will be unable to speak in generalities this time," he says.
The analyst thinks that the Kremlin should give serious considerations
to the forthcoming electoral cycle in Armenia in 2017-18 and should
start the preparations beforehand, both strategically and in PR
campaigns. Markedonov stresses the need to establish contacts with
all political associations, non-governmental and youth structures of
the republic.
Markedonov thinks that Russia should give up constantly declaring
the success of its alliance with Armenia given the fact that now
the situation in the Transcaucasia depends on external factors more
than ever. He says that the fate of the protracted conflicts and the
prospects of the post-Soviet integration projects are mostly hanging
in the balance in Donbass.
"So, along with removing the wrinkles in the Russia-Armenia relations,
Moscow gives high priority to a positive dynamics in Ukraine, at
least reached through long-term "freezing" of the conflict around
the Luhansk and Donetsk regions," he says.
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