The Results of the Military Actions in Nagorno-Karabakh-2020: New Geopolitical Challenges for the Russian Federation

The main purpose of the work is to analyze the geopolitical situation in Nagorno-Karabakh based on the results of the military operations between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The results of the conflict are considered from the perspective of positive and negative dividends for the Russian Federation. The methodological basis of the work consists of general scientific and private scientific techniques and methods including methods of analysis, synthesis, system method, comparative method, formal-logical scientific method, discourse analysis and some others. The article makes a theoretical contribution to the development of ideas about the place and role of the military conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh in the foreign policy of other states. The practical significance of the work lies in the possibility of adjusting the foreign policy priorities of international actors with an interest in Nagorno-Karabakh taking into account the conclusions made in the article. The armed clashes in Nagorno-Karabakh should be called a local war. The key factor that led to the defeat of Armenia in the fighting is the «cooling» of the foreign policy interaction with the Russian Federation that preceded the conflict. The article draws conclusions about the dual nature of the results of the local war for the Russian Federation: the positive and negative aspects are analyzed. The end of the armed conflict was not supported by a serious legal document but only stopped with the participation of Russia through the so-called «Statement» which in the medium term will most likely create prerequisites for a new round of armed confrontation.