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State TV and pro-Kremlin commentators have showered the Russian leadership with praise since the new #Karabakh deal was announced, but open some of today's papers, and it's an entirely different story. Here are a few quotes:
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In Vedomosti, pundit Konstantin Makiyenko says the geopolitical consequences will be "disastrous" not only for Armenia, but also for Russia. /2 https://www.vedomosti.ru/opinion/articles/2020/11/10/846462-rossiya-proigrala
He adds: Moscow's influence in the South Caucasus has been "drastically reduced" while the regional standing of Turkey has "grown mind-boggingly".
What's more, Baku can now talk to Moscow in a "very different tone". /3
What's more, Baku can now talk to Moscow in a "very different tone". /3
Military expert Col Alexander Zhilin tells Nezavisimaya Gazeta that the deal signals victory for Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the South Caucasus. /4
https://www.ng.ru/armies/2020-11-10/1_8010_peacekeepers.html
https://www.ng.ru/armies/2020-11-10/1_8010_peacekeepers.html
He says: "Russia, having yet again swallowed a massive moral humiliation and not retaliating even for the downed military helicopter and pilots' deaths, has suffered a devastating reputational defeat." /5
This, he goes on, "may result in the loss of the entire Caucasus" since Russia does not have a "single, even hypothetical, ally left". /6
And from Moskovsky Komsomolets columnist Mikhail Rostovsky: In order to avert a "disastrous massacre" in Nagorno-Karabakh, Russia has accepted the obligation of "paying the potentially very high price of our soldiers' lives". /7 END https://www.mk.ru/politics/2020/11/10/rossiya-spasla-karabakh-ot-boyni-no-armeniya-eto-ne-cenit.html
