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There was no threat of extinction of population in Crimea wich is not the case in Karabakh (video)

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Drawing comparisons between Crimea and Karabakh is unacceptable. When Crimean was annexed by Russia there was no threat of physical extermination of the Crimean population by Ukraine. “Crimea cannot be compared with Karabakh in terms of the essence and roots of the conflict. In this sense, South Ossetia and Abkhazia have more in common with the Karabakh conflict, given there was a threat of physical extermination of the population, bloodshed and war,” political analyst Stepan Safaryan said to A1+. styop “You cannot find a single document that would legally consider Nagorno-Karabakh part of the Azerbaijan or put it under the administrative jurisdiction of the Republic of Azerbaijan,” said Ara Papian, Founder and Head of the Modus Vivendi Center. In addition to this major difference, political analysts in Armenia point to other differences as well. “The biggest difference is that after Russia annexed Crimea it started another war in Donbass and other areas in eastern Ukraine, that is to say, Russia started a bigger armed conflict which drew the attention of the entire world. The biggest difference is that Russia has nuclear weapons, but we, Armenians, do not,” Mr Papian said. ara “When we speak about Crimea we should not forget that one of the conflicting parties [Russia] is a nuclear superpower and has apparent military, political, religious, economic and demographic advantage over Ukraine while in our case, neither Karabakh nor Armenia has such an advantage over Azerbaijan,” says political analyst Sergey Minasyan. The political analysts say the similarity between the two conflicts is that they are both ethno-political and ethno-territorial conflicts that are legacies from the Soviet and pre-Soviet eras. sergey In the 2014 referendum 95.5% of population in Crimea voted in favour of joining Russia. Should Armenia use this precedent on the international arena? “The precedent of Kosovo is probably the most closest to Karabakh,” said Stepan Safaryan.

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