Referring to the four-day war and the role of the Russian Federation in it, the Republican lawmaker Lernik Alexanyan in an interview with us made an important remark. First of all, he said, “Russia’s policy has not been changed since Peter the First. The ideological statistics is built in a way that small nations’ conflicts always exist. This is a policy that neither we nor anyone … purely Russian institutions have worked on it. In other words, today, we want it or not, the West also reckons with this policy and they do not resist in many respects.”
To our question of whether he thinks that in this four-day war Putin was not aware of what Azerbaijan wants to do, Lernik Alexanyan replied, “He was not only aware of but it was done by him. It is so much associated with Turkey, this short war, even the shape of the war if it was not made by him … it was Russia’s policy of stick and honey-cake. It happened in 1918 and now. In other words, Russia showed both their places. Russia said to Azerbaijan, look, Azerbaijan, it is going to be this way, and then to Armenia – it is going to be this way. This is a policy that has always been used.” To our question of what about our strategic alliance, he replied, “The strategic part is that our interests with Russia coincide more than with Azerbaijan. Russia is in favor of the status quo, which is to our benefit. The West does not support the status quo.”
To our observation of whether we should “hold Putin’s hem” and do not release it, Lernik Alexanyan replied, “We do not hold the hem but we must recon. Diplomacy is such a thing that it is not by desires. There are much worse options, it is an art to reach the possible, what is possible. Is it possible to take the Armenian lands from Turkey today? It is not possible. We must take as much as we can. Number one task for us is to build an inner house to raise our benchmark so that Turkey and other reckon. We must leave everything: our home, our statehood, the army, the faith to the authorities, people’s appetite must be reduced, we must do these things. If we do not regulate this, no one will do it from outside, if two spouses do not get along with each other, the neighbors cannot do it for them.”
We reminded that he has voted in favor of the EaEU, the MP said that he was and is now in favor of the EaEU because “we cannot do without the North.” To our surprise that actually it turns out from your words that both Russians are traitors and allow a war on us for their own benefit, and on the other hand you also says that we cannot do without them, Lernik Alexanyan replied, “Who says that they are traitors, everybody is doing for its own benefit, so do we. Why should the Russian soldier come here to die for us?”
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