“The main goal of Pashinyan’s visit to Moscow was to understand Russia’s position and not so much to simply receive a “dabro” – 168․ammentioned in a conversation with cultural technologist, analyst Vigen Hakobyanelaborating, “For Nikol Pashinyan, the behavior of all geopolitical and regional players was approximately calculable and predictable, except for Russia’s position.”

The geotechnical expert noted that, for example, although it is clear for Pashinyan that Europe supports him, unfortunately for him, Europe is not particularly represented on the ground in our region, and the maximum that Europeans can do from a political point of view is to turn a blind eye to all possible illegalities of Pashinyan, etc.

According to him, it is objectively not necessary to wait for the activity of the USA and Iran in this matter. “They are quite mixed.”

“He is confident in the support of Azerbaijan and Turkey. There remains the position of the Russian Federation, which is completely unpredictable in the sense that the chain of possibilities of Russia is large, starting from doing nothing, ending with doing something. That’s why he decided to meet Putin to understand his mood,” Vigen Hakobyan remarked.

To the question, what did Pashinyan understand, the cultural technologist answered: “I think he realized that he has quite serious problems with Russia.”

The expert drew attention to the format of the meeting, noting that usually the official part of the meeting does not last long, while in this case it was longer, stretching for about 20-25 minutes.

“This reminded me more of the Trump-Zelensky meeting. Of course, the matter here did not reach a direct debate, and also with the difference that, if Zelensky was not given lunch in the White House, Pashinyan was given that meal.

Putin immediately went to the agenda, started with the election topics, and put forward the entire problematic agenda himself. energy, gas supply, relations with the European Union, political persecution of pro-Russian figures. Putin immediately set a condition to forget about the Moldovan scenario, etc.”

Vigen Hakobyan considers the reference to the issue of Artsakh to be remarkable, noting that by doing so, Putin recorded that the Karabakh issue is not closed.

“In fact, Putin raised all the complicated issues at once, without giving them a chance to avoid it. It was quite a sharp conversation,” added the civil technologist.

I think Pashinyan was advised by his outside curators to behave the way Zelensky behaved with Trump. It was the same tactic: counter-speech, sometimes insulting, just to create an image of a hero, someone who does not give up to the internal audience, but, I suppose, as in the case of Zelensky, the consequences can be the same here too,” the analyst summed up.

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