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News and analysis from Armenia. I'm an independent and free-thinking journalist who focuses on the problems of the South Caucasus.

Mar 30, 2023, 11 tweets

1/11 Russia's FM #Lavrov is leaving for #Turkey in a week. Attention! In #Ankara, Lavrov will also discuss the settlement of #NagornoKarabakh with Turkish FM Cavusoglu, in addition to the topics of #Syria, #Ukraine. Zakharova announced this information today. What does it reveal?

2/ 🇷🇺 no longer hides that Karabakh is the subject of its and 🇹🇷's political trade. 🇷🇺 can concede one benefit to 🇹🇷 in the Karabakh issue, and instead receive a benefit in the directions of Syria, Ukraine. The settlement of the NK issue actually fell victim to 🇷🇺-🇹🇷 cooperation.

3/ The facts testify to that. After the Sept 2020 war, the #Russia's MoD #Shoigu announced that a successful operation was carried out with #Turkey in #Karabakh. Probably, he meant the defeat of Nagorno Karabakh. A joint Russian-Turkish monitoring center is located in #Aghdam.

4/ A few days ago, #Lavrov expressed how he sees the future of #NagornoKarabakh as part of #Azerbaijan. He cited the example of #Donbas, according to the Minsk agreements, and the model of the Serbian minority in #Kosovo.

5/ #Lavrov said that in his opinion it would be acceptable for the people of NK to have language, religion, local self-gov, other rights, special economic ties with 🇦🇲. Pro-Russian forces in 🇦🇲 have already stopped deceiving the public that 🇷🇺 will never hand over NK to 🇦🇿.

6/ Even they dare to disagree with #Lavrov. But the future is important. Recently, in a press conference with 🇦🇲FM Ararat Mirzoyan, Sergey Lavrov accused the #West of destroying the 3+3 format. He accused the West of violating the interests of #Turkey, #Russia, and #Iran.

7/ Lavrov will try to agree the time, agenda of a new meeting in 🇹🇷 in the 3+3 format. It has already been revealed that these dictatorial countries aim to keep #Georgia, #Azerbaijan, #Armenia in their sphere of influence, prevent their democratic develop., cooper. with the West.

8/ It is also a fact today that Azerbaijan's attacks against #Karabakh, #Armenia, the 2020 #war, were planned by Russia with Turkey before the attack on Ukraine. The Kremlin aimed to cede Karabakh to 🇹🇷 and 🇦🇿 so that they would take a neutral position in the war against Ukraine.

9/ 🇹🇷, 🇦🇿 are reselling 🇷🇺 gas to 🇪🇺, supporting 🇷🇺 to buy weapons, make war. But while 🇷🇺 threatens 🇦🇲 not to ratify the Rome Statute, accuses the West of trying to enter its sphere of influence, 🇦🇲 Pashinyan thanks the US for stopping 🇦🇿's attacks at the For Democracy Summit.

10/ This says everything about Russia's real weight in the South Caucasus. Russia is not a stabilizing factor, but a source of conflict. He is not the ally of Armenia, but the author of conspiracies.

11/ The presence of the #West in the #SouthCaucasus gives hope that #Russia will not be able to colonize #Armenia through the pressure of #Turkey and #Azerbaijan, and deprive Armenia of its sovereignty and the chance of a democratic future.

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