Russia has failed to elaborate a strategy on the South Caucasian states and this resulted in indistinct foreign policy towards these states, head of the center of Caucasian Studies at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) Vladimir Zakharov said in an interview with PanARMENIAN.Net. "I can say that Russia assumed a strange and temporizing position. Absence of precise interests in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia leads to wrong decisions. With all responsibility I say that Russia has maintained one political ally in the South Caucasus - Armenia. On one hand it gratifies but on the other hand it upsets because during the recent decade our foreign policy and economic relations led not to development of ties with Russia but worsened them. Hasty decisions of the Russian government forced the Armenian people and power structures to turn to other political players," he said.

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