director of the crisis research institute mark arlen's believes public sentiment within both countries could have played a part in this sudden outbreak of hostilities. well one big problem here is that on both sides popular opinion is highly mobile ised and so you have a situation that you have approximately a 1000000 people in azerbaijan who are refugees from armenia hundreds of thousands of people in armenia who fled from azerbaijan and so we have a situation where there's pressure from the public for standing up for the national interest remember in the renewal of the conflict back in july when it burst out again there were big demonstrations about who tell him the president earlier has not been robust enough and on the other side of armenia the prime minister of russia now knows who to call to power the street 2 years ago and he seemed not to be robust sticking up for your interests he can place protests too so we have a problem that it's not simply politicians playing power games that's going on of course but it's also that there is an animosity between 2 groups of christian armen