Alexei Vlasov: "Ilham Aliyev's policy is aimed to turn Russia and Azerbaijan into strategic partners"

Russia and Azerbaijan can and must become strategic partners, said Alexei Vlasov, director general of the Center of studying post-Soviet area and editor-in-chief of the Vesti Kavkaza news agency during a video bridge Baku-Moscow on the preliminary results of referendum in Azerbaijan, views from two capitals.

"I think the whole policy of working president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, who speaks Russian well and demonstrates the culture of speech to which most Russian politician might be envious, is held in this very direction. This person is not prejudiced towards the Russian culture and treats it with respect", noted he.

According to the political scientist, Azerbaijan has made its choice and "the country decided to follow this very way".

"As far as I understand the political elite of Russia accepts it with full understanding, the understanding of the realities under which Azerbaijan exists in this fast changing unstable world and the understanding of the real opportunity to attain serious achievements on all directions in the Russian-Azerbaijani relations in the nearest 1-1.5 years", noted Vlasov.

According to the political scientist, referendum is a vote of trust of the population to the policy, conducted by the working powers.

/Day.Az/