Any power in Armenia will be pro-Armenian, any other forces will not hold out even a minute

PanARMENIAN.Net - "Before becoming a part of the Russian Empire the Eastern Armenia was a province of Persia. That period was much longer than the "Russian stage". And so what, does it mean that Persian-Armenian ties guarantee any special privileges for modern Iran within Armenia? In this connection I'd like to remind that at the beginning of the 20th century Armenian revolutionaries did not favor too much the Russian Empire when imperial authorities nationalized property of the Armenian Apostolic Church. And still I put it mildly. Today Armenian Revolutionary Federation "Dashnaktsutyun" is one of the "power parties" in Armenia and supports the idea of strategic partnership with Russia," candidate of science, head of the department of international relations at the Institute of Political and Military Studies Sergey Markedonov stated in the interview to PanARMENIAN.Net He thinks that at the end of 1980ies Armenia was one of the most anti-Soviet republics in the USSR. "In March of 1991 Azeri authorities urged to vote for "refreshed union", however Armenian leadership was already busy with preparing a civilized divorce with the USSR. Today Yerevan is a CSTO and EURASEC member-state and makes efforts towards closer integration in the framework of CIS. Thus, all those who write and show about Armenia, as well as other republics of the former "inviolable union" must understand a simple truth. There will be no pro-American or pro-Moscow powers in Armenia. There will be a pro-Armenian power only in Yerevan. And any other forces in Armenia will not hold out even a minute. Any force will cooperate with Russia only as much, as that cooperation corresponds to the interests of that political force. Parliamentarian or presidential elections will not change that iron rule," the Russian political scientist underlined.

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