Views from Moscow: No one can put the genie once let out by Gorbachev back into the bottle
Karabakh conflict can be resolved with the help of foreign moderators only, Yevgeny Satanovsky, President of the Independent Scientific Center "Middle East Institute" told ArmInfo.
"It can be resolved only if the Soviet Union, the Ottoman Porte or the empire of any of the Iranian sheiks is revived. Such conflicts are resolved only if you have a foreign moderator that is directly managing the territory on an everyday basis and you stop slaughtering each other. London, Istanbul, Moscow, even Beijing," the analyst said.
Satanovsky is sure that the conflicts in the South Caucasus were blown up by "some moral monsters in the hero city and the capital of the USSR - Moscow - under Gorbachev and by him personally." It was done the same way as the notorious military takeover that was based on the scheme "you want too much independence; let us restore the old mechanisms and you will rush to Moscow for conciliation."
"Mikhail Sergeyevich [Gorbachev] in his infinite wisdom did not understand that those mechanisms created under Iosif Vissarionovich [Stalin] stopped working after it turned out that there is no longer any conciliation means. He was rushing about doing stupid things in Baltics, in Tbilisi, in Azerbaijani Sumgait. The guys let the genie out of the bottle and now he is flying and no one can put it back into the bottle," Satanovsky said.