Russia's behavior during the escalation of the conflict drew criticism from Yerevan.
They say here that Russia, being Armenia’s ally in the CSTO and a partner in the bilateral Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, has essentially taken a neutral position.
Yerevan is dissatisfied with Moscow not only because of its policy of non-interference.
On September 29, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, without naming specific countries, said that the allies were not fulfilling their obligations on arms supplies. “We have cases where hundreds of millions of dollars have already been paid for weapons, but supply obligations to Armenia are not being fulfilled,” he said at a government meeting.
The ex-president and leader of the opposition alliance “Armenia” Robert Kocharyan agrees with him, noting that “the leverage of Russia and the CSTO has significantly decreased” and proposing to revise the “security architecture of Armenia” by including Iran in it.
Against this background, both Yerevan and Baku are looking for more influential mediators for the negotiation process than Russia.
As Arkady Dubnov, an expert on Central Asian countries, noted, he sees nothing that Russia could offer today in the South Caucasus. “Moscow’s mediation has reached a dead end. And this deadlock is caused by the diversion of funds - peacekeepers, the army and everything else.”