The parties to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict will reach a consensus by next summer, according to a Russian expert.
Speaking in Baku, the vice Dean of the Moscow State University's History Department and the editor-in-chief of information-analytical center Vestnik-Kavkaza, Aleksey Vlasov, disagreed to the opinion that the Kazan meeting between the Armenian, Azerbaijani and Russian presidents was a failure.
He said the parties did not reach an agreement because of existing conflicts in their approaches. The expert did not share the opinion that Moscow is interested in keeping the conflict frozen.
"The unsettled Karabakh conflict negatively impacts the situation in the North Caucasus and the south of Russia. That's why Russia is interested in its settlement," the Azerbaijani news agency APA quoted him as saying.
Vlasov further denied the media reports that Russia is going to give up its role as a mediator. He said such disinformation pursues a bias, as interested parties attempt in this way to monopolize the peacekeeping mission.
The expert explained such manipulation by the current information warfare.
"But Russia will have a decisive role in the conflict settlement process," he added.
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