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    RUSSIA HAS EXPERIENCE IN SETTLING INTERETHNIC CONFLICTS

    Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
    Feb 16 2015

    16 February 2015 - 8:36pm

    Veronika Krasheninnikova, the head of the Russia Today Center
    of International Journalism and Studies, the director general of
    the Institute of Foreign Political Studies and Initiatives, deputy
    head of the Presidential Council Committee for Social Support of the
    Population of the Southeast of Ukraine, a member of the Russian Public
    Chamber, has visited Vestnik Kavkaza today. She gave an insight into
    the Russian position on conflicts in the post-Soviet space and the
    world and relations with the South Caucasus states.

    Speaking about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Krasheninnikova
    emphasized that it was one of the most tragic pages in the history
    of the USSR, independent Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia. She
    called Yugoslavia an analogy of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,
    where interethnic tensions had sparked the tragedy. In her words,
    Russian history has unique experience in solving such problems. The
    USSR consisted of 200 ethnicities, according to the expert. She urged
    the modern generation to use the experience to build a future.

    Krasheninnikova pointed out the progress of Russia in developing
    relations with Azerbaijan and Armenia, their reaching a new level in
    2014. The analyst reminded about the meeting in Astrakhan and progress
    in the settlement of Caspian problems. In her opinion, the authorities
    of Azerbaijan have the political wisdom to make the right decisions.

    Armenia, says Krasheninnikova, made the right choice by joining
    the Eurasian Economic Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. She
    reminded that the Baltic states had joined the EU in May 2004,
    their population had decreased by about a quarter or a third, their
    economies entered a deep crisis. The expert noted that the U.S. and
    NATO members continued paying special attention to the countries of
    the South Caucasus. Not a week went by without NATO drills, visits
    of defense ministers and of other military officials in July-August.

    http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/politics/66457.html

    Krasheninnikova added that the Ukrainian crisis had made the region
    even more topical. Russia Today prepared a report "The Trans-Caucasus
    in the strategic plans of the U.S. and NATO" with "a very deep"
    study of the actions of the Americans and their allies in the Caucasus.

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