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Western media have described the final communiqué on the prospects of the anti-Russian sanctions as weak. The document states that the European Commission will prepare necessary measures. EU Chief Diplomat Federica Mogherini said that the measures will be clarified on February 12. No new sanctions were passed, the old ones affecting individuals were extended, sector-targeted sanctions were left unchanged.
17 Armenian and 3 Azerbaijani soldiers have died in Nagorno-Karabakh throughout January. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said at a solemn session dedicated to the 23rd anniversary of the Armenian Army yesterday that the country was mourning its losses and Azerbaijan would pay for the life of every Armenian soldier killed. The president added that symmetrical responses to asymmetrical losses would be substituted by asymmetrical responses. “Hotshots should expect surprises,” Sargsyan warned.
The stressful policy of Armenian complementarianism
NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia James Appathurai has urged the sides of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to show moderation in the context of the Armenian helicopter recently shot down by Azerbaijani forces. The OSCE had earlier expressed concerns over the fresh violence in the region.
Akhmat Erkenov: “We are tied by something more than economic reasonability”
The Russian Public Chamber Commission for Development of Public Diplomacy and Support of Compatriots Abroad organized a round table conference entitled “A new stage of relations of Russian and Azerbaijan. The results of 23 years of independence of the Azerbaijani Republic.” Participants in the conference discussed visits of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Vice Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, Minister for Agriculture Alexey Ulyukayev, Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu, Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky and other politicians to Baku in the last 4 months.
Yesterday the senate of the American state of California made the decision to recognize the independence of the self-proclaimed "Nagorno-Karabakh Republic". The relevant draft resolution was submitted in January and actively pressed …
Russian political analyst, the head of the international cooperation committee of Russia's Public Chamber and the director of the Political Research Institute, Sergey Markov, talks about the prospects of Eurasian integration and Azerbaijan's possible entrance to the Eurasian Union.
US Secretary of State John Kerry is going to pay a visit to Azerbaijan soon. Vestnik Kavkaza discussed the coming visit with Azerbaijani lawmakers Asim Mollazade and Rasim Musabekov and Deputy Head of the Plekhanov Russian Economic University Sergey Markov.
Two scenarios of saving President of Ukraine by Sergey Markov
Sergey Markov, Head of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Alexander Karavayev, Deputy Director General of the MSU IAC, and Yevgeny Korchevoy, Director of the WTO-Inform Analytical Center, have rounded up Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Armenia.
Sergey Markov, head of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, and Maksim Shevchenko, told Vestnik Kavkaza that the settlement of the conflicts of the early 1990s was the key to peace in the South Caucasus.
Russian political scientists on results of the Georgian elections
The vice-principal of Plekhanov Russian Economics University, Sergey Markov, thinks that the presidential elections in Georgia which took place last weekend were democratic. The scientist believes the campaign has brought no surprises. However, Markov is sure that if Georgian Dream initiates an investigation into Zurab Zhvania’s death, the Georgian scandals will outshine Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.
Sergey Markov, head of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Mamuk Areshidze and Ramaz Sakvarelidze, political analysts from Tbilisi, have discussed Georgy Margvelashvili’s victory at the presidential polls in Georgia. According to 90% of ballot sheets processed, he took 62.09% of the vote.
Leonid Slutsky, head of the Russian parliamentary committee for the CIS, Eurasian integration and compatriots abroad, emphasized that relations between Russia and Azerbaijan were as stable as never before, despite the outrage caused by Orkhan Zeynalov (an Azerbaijani native), accused of stabbing Yegor Shcherbakov to death in Russia. He called the focus on Zeynalov’s origin an informative provocation targeting relations between Moscow and Baku.Slutsky reminded that many Azerbaijanis lived in Moscow and other cities of Russia and many of them were doctors and teachers. The MP assured that relations with Azerbaijan will be constructive and fruitful after the presidential polls won by Ilham Aliyev on October 9.Sergey Markov, Pro-Rector of the Plekhanov Russian University for Economics, urged mass media sources to correct their position on pointing out nationalities of criminals. He reminded that millions of Azerbaijanis were citizens of Russia. Most of them work and contribute to the economy and socio-political system.Markov said that not a single incorrect statement had been made by Russian officials. He agreed that the nationality of criminals had no importance.Leonid Slutsky, head of the Russian parliamentary committee for the CIS, Eurasian integration and compatriots abroad, emphasized that relations between Russia and Azerbaijan were as stable as never before, despite the outrage caused by Orkhan Zeynalov (an Azerbaijani native), accused of stabbing Yegor Shcherbakov to death in Russia. He called the focus on Zeynalov’s origin an informative provocation targeting relations between Moscow and Baku.
Sergey Markov, head of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, said at a Moscow-Baku video conference at ITAR-TASS that the elections had two intresting points: the percentage of people voting for President Ilham Aliyev and the legitimacy of elections. Markov called Aliyev’s victory a ‘silent triumph’. He believes that people have faith in Aliyev due to his economic progress, comparable with that of China.The Russian expert called Aliyev a flexible, progressive and young politician. The defeat of the opposition proved its weakness.
Presidential elections in Azerbaijan are expected to be held in four weeks. Seven people have already been registered as presidential candidates.
Member of the Russian Public Chamber Sergey Markov believes the federal government and mass media should promote inter-ethnic peace in Russia. It's very important to promote the cultures of the various peoples of Russia, he says.
Moscow has held a press conference for the federal purpose program on strengthening consolidation of the Russian nation and ethnic-cultural development of its people (2014-2020). The program explained and clarified by Alexander Juravsky, Director of the Department for Interethnic Relations of the Russian Ministry for Regional Development, Mikhail Remizov, President of the Institute for National Strategy, Margarita Lyange, President of the Guild for Interethnic Journalism, Sergey Markov, a member of the Russian Public Chamber, and Boris Mejuyev, Director of the Novaya Ploshchad Foundation.
