Russia cannot choose between Armenia and Azerbaijan, it must maintain a balance, but this balance does not increase the optimism of Armenians.

Axar.az reports that this was said by Russian political scientist Sergey Markedonov.

"Armenian society really wants Russia to support Yerevan as a whole and often says: "Turkiye is an ally of Azerbaijan, always on its side. But Russia somehow maintains a balance between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Russians should be like Turkiye." I answer them that it will not work, we have different goals. We say that neither Armenians nor Azerbaijanis are our enemies, and once we built a common state together," he said.