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    PROMINENT RUSSIAN ANALYSTS URGES RUSSIA TO STEP UP ITS CLOUT ON CAUCASUS

    Armenpress
    May 17 2006

    YEREVAN, MAY 17, ARMENPRESS: A prominent Russian political analyst
    of Armenian descent slammed today Russia for its unwillingness to
    help Armenia resolve a string of sensitive problems it shares with
    neighboring Turkey.

    Andranik Mihranian, who used to consult ex-Russian president Boris
    Yeltsin, told an international conference in Yerevan, entitled 'The
    South Caucasus without Terrorism and Conflicts' that many of these
    problems had been created by Russia itself. The conference organized
    by World Armenian Congress (WAC) has brought experts and analysts
    from Russia, Turkey and some other countries.

    Mihranian said because of Russia's reluctance to deal with
    these problems the U.S.A. has seized the initiative and holds
    actually an exclusive right in this domain. "Unfortunately, the
    other superpower-Russia- that has always been Armenia's ally, and
    a strategic partner today, is inactive in helping Armenia resolve
    its problems with Turkey," he said. Mihranian went on to argue that
    Russia's pullout from the South Caucasus together with withdrawal
    of its military bases from Georgia would be fraught with a string of
    very serious problems for Armenia.

    Mihranian said Armenia has no allies in the region.

    Its relationships with Turkey can be described as 'cold war,'
    it has no relations with Azerbaijan, while Georgia in the north is
    still a failed state hit from time to time by political and economic
    turmoil. He argued that Russia's withdrawal from Georgia would leave
    Armenia totally isolated since Georgia is driving towards NATO, while
    Armenia remains in the Collective Security Treaty Origination (CSTO).

    "Russia has to step up its political, economic and cultural clout on
    the region in order to thwart attempts to change the existing balance
    of forces here," he said.
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