"Armenia will resort to all kinds of provocations to bring Russia into the active phase of the conflict." APA's Moscow correspondent reports that this was stated by well-known Russian political expert, Doctor of Historical Sciences Alexander Sitin. He said he fully agreed with and supported Azerbaijan's official position on the ceasefire violation in Nagorno-Karabakh.
"I have said and written in advance that Armenia will resort to all kinds of provocations to involve Russia in the active phase of the conflict. It is said that Armenians are fleeing Karabakh for fear of what Azerbaijanis will do to them. I answer that the Armenian people are like that, they are always afraid of something. Just as they began to fear in 1915, they have been afraid for the whole 100 years. They ask, do you deny the right of peoples to self-determination? I answer that I deny it. They ask, then, who owns Transnistria, Donbass, Crimea? I answer that Transnistria belongs to Moldova and Donbass to Ukraine. My position on Crimea has been known since its unification. I will not express this position now, because it is a criminal offense. The question itself is provocative. "