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Russia increases its pressure on Armenia, realizing that Armenia's double-faced policy has an anti-Russian character, an Azerbaijani political scientist believes.

"Moscow realizes that Armenia's two phased policy is of anti-Russian character and begins to struggle with it by increasing pressures on Yerevan in all forms," the director of the Center of Political Innovations and Technologies, Mubariz Ahmedoglu said at a press conference on Thursday.

The political scientist noted that Russia is taking more and more segments of the Armenian economy under its influence, the Russian military is much more active in Armenia and Russia is moving away from Armenia's position on Nagorno-Karabakh dispute.

"Even pro-Armenian Russian political analysts note that alienating from Russia would be dangerous for Yerevan," he said.

Ahmadoglu said the results of the so-called "elections" in Nagorno-Karabakh exposed the Karabakh policy of Armenia and the Armenians of the world.

"The figures show that the population is in an entirely different mood," he added.

Ahmedoglu also noted the influence of the Syrian crisis to Armenia. In his view, the situation in Syria creates a political problem to Armenia.

"The Syrian Armenians who fled from fighting in their country and arrived in Armenia, now do not want to stay there. They need an Armenian visa or Armenian citizenship to emigrate to the West," he said.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.

Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the U.S. - are currently holding the peace negotiations.

Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.