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Russia’s catastrophic invasion of Ukraine means Armenia can no longer rely on Moscow as a guarantor of its security, even as fears grow of a return to open conflict with Azerbaijan, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told POLITICO in an interview.

Pashinyan’s unusually pointed criticism of Russia’s inability to act as a policeman in the Caucasus only compounds a sense the Kremlin is losing its influence — and once much-vaunted superpower status — across former Soviet republics that Moscow once saw as its stamping ground.

Disillusion in Yerevan could represent a major turning point for the country of 2.8 million people as it has delegated much of the control of its railways, its energy sector and even its borders to Russia after the collapse of the USSR. When Armenia fought a 44-day war against the stronger, Turkish-backed forces of Azerbaijan in 2020 — a conflict that killed thousands on each side — it was Russian peacekeepers that were deployed to maintain a ceasefire.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Armenia has a rough road ahead, hopefully their concessions to the Azeris is enough and more fighting doesn’t break out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I don’t think the Azeris will ever stop until they have a land bridge connecting them to Turkey, then after that until Armenia culture is gone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pashinyan fucked that chance up soundly, Azerbaijan is likely to get everything they want and face limited consequences. His dithering and mistakes were a masterclass in serving your entire ass up on a platter. Here’s a foreign policy article studying it: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14683857.2022.2111111