Moscow may use ‘South-Ossetian scenario’, says Muradian

“In case of resumption of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh, the best scenario to Russia is
’Rushing Russia’s Rescue Rangers’,” said analyst and political scientist Igor Muradian.

He said doesn’t exclude that Moscow wishes for realization of the South-Ossetian scenario in process of settlement to the conflict; in particular, as if Russian troops would have come to Nagorno-Karabakh ‘to rescue Armenians.’

“This scenario hasn’t even been kept secret,” Muradian said pointing that the Russian administration in everyway tries to undercut role of Armenia’s Army.

“Some actually not-real and not-existing statistics are often provided with citing ‘from some non-official resources’. While the reality has nothing common with those ‘statistics’ for more than dozens years,” stressed Muradian.

“Azerbaijan is not in a superior or advantageous position. There is, perhaps, some slight advantage in the Air Forces.”

According to expert, Russia is seriously concerning about Armenia-Turkey reconciliation as Armenia may become one of the U.S. allies.

“We do not pay an attention to Russia’s concerns. In fact, Russia considers the situation right. Actually, the U.S. government moves us to a certain zone, which is believed may become a zone of holding Turkey in check,” said Igor Muradian and added that thinks Russia-Turkey alliance will hardly be formed in case of alienation in Turkey-U.S. relations.