Terror attacks are among effective mechanisms, applied by Russia and its "allies"

He noted that it is a fight for the Central Asian reserves and the intention to provide the European economy with them.

"This is a competition with China and India. In this view, despite serious problems, the Budapest summit played an important tactical role in getting ties between the European countries closer and definite steps to promote the project have, in fact, been fixed for the whole year of 2009", noted Rusetski.

Speaking about any political or economic levers of pressure, Russia has to resist this project, he mentioned the South and North flows.

"On the whole, this is an energy trap for the entire Central and Eastern Europe. The European macroregion is already in this trap. The energy dependence breeds political one, which scares the elites of these states.

Russia also has other technologies of influence, including direct aggression, occupation of the areas of neighbor states and August events of 2008 prove what it is ready to do.

The August war started not in Georgia but in Turkey and the main incident of this international armed conflict was a blast at the BTC pipeline on the night of August 6, for which the Kurdish workers party has taken the responsibility. Thus, the terror attacks are among the most effective mechanisms, applied by Russia and its "allies".

The constructive resolution of this problem is possible in case talks are initiated on the high level. This level must envision principally new doctrine of the negotiation process. It can be presented as follows in brief - "not diversification against monopolization, and internationalization of energy geostrategical objects", said he.

As for the role of Turkey in stabilization of the situation in the Caucasus, he said these are initiatives aimed at the security of Turkey itseld.

"This country faced serious challenges in 2009. I want to repeat once again that August 2008 started after the BTC blast in Turkey. The incident was hugger-muggered as it was favorable for everyone".

According to the head of the institute, Turkey as Russia is the South Caucasus state. The north-eastern regions of Turkey are Caucasus. Therefore, he said, this country should take an open part in all the peacekeeping processes in the Caucasus. It has been striving for this opportunity for many years.

"On the other hand, it is clear that the Karabakh conflict is a part of the Armenian-Turkish problem and the result of driving Armenians out from their historical southern lands to the north. Therefore, this problem cannot be settled without the full participation of Turkey. This country is a conflict party and its non-participation makes peacekeeping processes in the Caucasus incomplete.

Asked whether he believes in the soonest resolution of the Karabakh conflict, considering the fact that Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders recognized the meeting in Switzerland as productive, Rusetski noted: "The Karabakh conflict has created a new stage of international relations and we can hardly take pride in it. It will not be settled until the smeary game on division of powers in the South Caucasus is not completed between the big geopolitical actors and their poppet ethnocratic regimes. The latter will disappear only in case basis of pluralistic democracy are created instead of the majority democracy in Azerbaijan and Georgia".

/Day.Az/