Azerbaijan's assault on Nagorno-Karabakh has tested Armenia's trust in its once-stalwart ally Russia, pushing Yerevan to consider alignments with the West.
Armenia's reliance on Russia is challenged as Moscow appears to side with Azerbaijan amidst territorial conflicts.Following the"velvet revolution" that brought Pashinyan to power, Armenia's pivot towards the West has been met with suspicion and distrust from Russia.
On September 19, as Azerbaijan was waging its massive assault on Nagorno-Karabakh, Russia's first reaction was toA short time later, former Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev Perhaps more significantly, both are repressive authoritarian states whose leaders are at liberty to engage in transactional politics with nothing but the faintest pretensions to democracy and human rights. set to endArmenian-Russian relations began to sour in earnest in spring 2018 when the so-called"velvet revolution" swept away the Russia-aligned kleptocratic old guard and brought the young reformer Nikol Pashinyan to power.
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