Russia lacks well-defined policy as regards the South Caucasus, deputy director of the center of Caucasian studies at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, professor Vladimir Zakharov said at Caucasus and Middle East: Possible Partners in Formation of Regional Security System international conference in Yerevan. South Caucasus becomes one of NATO's priorities forming a new geopolitical configuration where Russia has no place, he said.

"Georgia and Azerbaijan have actually separated from Russia. Losing Armenia, Russia will lose the way to South Caucasus," he said adding that any armed conflict in Georgia will initiate U.S. incursion in the region and, possibly, further attack on Iran.