Gevorg Mirzayan: "Unlike Armenia, Russia able to live with poor Russian-Armenian relations"

vestnikkavkaza.net

uncaptioned image (presumably of Mirzayan) from article

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The signing of the agreement between Armenia and the European Union has given rise to many conflicting assessments of this event for Russian-Armenian relations, including a new wave of anti-Russian sentiment among Armenian radicals, which hit the Russian TV channels and Russian experts giving a balanced analysis of the consequences of the new stage of Yerevan's rapprochement with the West (Armenian nationalists vs. Russian TV channels and experts). One of the radical political scientists who had been criticized by the radical political scientists, the head of the Department of Political Science of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Gevorg Mirzayan, told Vestnik Kavkaza about "virtual diversification" of Armenia's foreign policy and threats to Russian-Armenian relations from nationalists. ...

- How should one perceive negative assessments of an objective analysis of the Armenian-Russian relations, including yours?

- People who do not make decisions can just laugh about it. But people who make decisions should shudder at the harm to public diplomacy and the relationship between the two states caused by these radical critics. And put a muzzle on them.

What is interesting here is that Russia's actions towards such critics were rather pragmatic, a simple apology - despite the fact that although Russia needs this, but it is not vital for it. Moscow is able to live with poor Armenian-Russian relations, while Yerevan, whose security depends on good and constructive relations with Moscow, took a passive position, fearing the reaction of a local group of flag-wavers. ..