Aleksandr Manasyan, who heads the Political Reserach Academy NGO in Yerevan, said that the country should not place all its hope on agreements signed over the weekend with Russia in terms of Armenia’s future security. "I also support the maintenance of ties to NATO, for instance," he said, adding that will it was good that Russia has promised to update and refurnish Armenia’s military production facilities, he doesn’t want to see Armenia turned into a mere source of materials for Russia. Mr. Manasyan said that the United States approaches the ties between Yerevan and Moscow with the understanding that Armenia must ensure its security when it has Turkey, a state that committed the Genocide, as its neighbour. "In my opinion, Russia wants to operate freely here and that’s why the contract is for so many years," the analyst told Hetq, adding that any nation must, in the final analysis, place its destiny and hope in its own hands.