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Armenia`s recognizing independence of Donetsk or Luhansk to prove major blow to Artsakh

ARM INFO
Feb 24 2022
David Stepanyan

ArmInfo.Armenia's recognizing or even showing any signs of approving the independence of Donetsk or Luhansk will prove a major blow to the Armenian positions in the Artsakh peace process, Hovsep Khurshudyan, Head of the Free Citizen  NGO, told ArmInfo.  

"In the context of Armenian Premier Nikol Pashinyan's forthcoming  visit to Moscow at Russian President Vladimir Putin's invitation I  see such a threat as well. Moreover, that meeting is pregnant with  other threats to us as well. The ongoing situation in Ukraine clear  demonstrates Putin's unpredictable actions. I think he will pursue a  policy of forcing as many state leaders as possible into sharing the  responsibility for his own actions," he said. 

The prospects of expansion of the Russia-Belarus allied state to the  other post-Soviet states poses a threat to their independence. And  the Belarusian president's recent statements are not a mere  coincidence. Amid the Ukraine developments, Moscow will first of all  take steps toward its satellite states. And it is extremely important  under the circumstances that Armenia should not be among the states  hailing Russia's latest actions.     

According to Mr Khurshudyan, the Russian elite's actions cause that  state to embark on an extremely dangerous path, which is pregnant  with the most negative consequences. In this context, he points out  that the USSR, a rather powerful state with serious resources, lost  the cold war with the West and disintegrated. 

However, starting from his meeting in Munich, Russian President  Vladimir Putin changed Russia's status as the West's partner to that  of rival. And his latest actions in Ukraine have been proving this  status, while he has forgot that Russia is not the USSR and half of  the world is not communist. Russia is an isolated state with even  some of the post-Soviet states being hostile to it, Mr Khurshudyan  said. 

"The West has until recently avoided a strong reaction to Russia's  revisionism. However, I think the West will respond by measures  against the Russian authorities. The collective West will not  tolerate it for long, especially amid the discontent in Russia's  society. Thus, the West must have made a decision on Putin. And they  will spare no effort to put it into practice by undermining Russia's  power pyramid to have Putin replaced with a more predictable  political figure," he said. 

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