Yerevan, 04/03/14 . Turan- ArmInfo : Russia failed to force Ukraine to start a war , which was a significant setback for Moscow . This opinion during the February 4 press conference in Yerevan was expressed by the director of the research center "Concent" , the former head of the National Security Service of Armenia David Shahnazaryan.
"All the recent actions of the Kremlin and Vladimir Putin personally were openly of provocative nature and were designed to ruffle the new authorities in Kiev and get them to go to open defense of the territorial integrity of Ukraine in arms. Fortunately , the new government, well remembering the South Ossetian scenario, refrains from using force than confuses Moscow's cards. I think that in the next 72 hours, the situation will be clarified completely," he said.
As estimated Shahnazaryan, by today's action in the Crimea, Moscow is trying to repeat the aggression against Georgia undertaken in August 2008. The analyst described the actions as aggressive and contrary to international law and obligations assumed by Russia under international treaties .
According to him, such aggressive actions are initiated personally by President Putin. Russia will not win anything by that. The best proof of that is yesterday's collapse of the index of the leading Russian companies and the collapse of the ruble.
" All this shows the main thing that the market was in a fever after the start of freezing Western accounts belonging to today's ruling elite of Russia. Putin is trying to deploy Russia against the world , against the existing world order that cannot finish successfully for the country. Today the West, somehow, does not notice that Putin's Russia has become another "evil empire" - an analog of Brezhnev's USSR, far superior to it in its unpredictability. The West today is afraid of two things: insanity of Putin who has lost the sense of reality, according to the German Chancellor, and Russian nuclear warheads," the analyst said. -02D-
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