The main “push factors” behind migratory movement of the Armenians to Russia in the New and Modern times
The article presents the main milestones in the history of the Armenians’ migration to the territory of Russia in the modern and postmodern era. Stating that the main migration causes were of a military-political and economic nature, the author analyzes the events that make up the migration history of the Armenian people in the New and Modern times from a legal point of view. The author pays special attention to the repatriation institution in the context of the “Armenian dispersion” history, including in the Soviet period (the second half of the 1940s - early 1950s). The history of the Armenian resettlement to Russia and the formation of the Armenian Diaspora here is reconstructed in close connection with the analysis of such Russian historical plots fundamental to the fate of Armenia as the wars for Transcaucasia, Russia’s patronage of the same-religion people and its resettlement policy, the work of Russian diplomacy in Transcaucasia in the 19th century, the Armenian Genocide of 1915, etc. The author considers the relationship between Armenians and their neighbors in the region who profess Islam to be the key plot of the study. The author attempts to identify the main causes of the centuries-old tragic conflict between Armenians and Azerbaijanis, while the author places that conflict in a migration historical context.