Numbers at the Border: Is a New Migration Wave from Russia Beginning?

Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to persuade Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to reconsider his country’s course towards closer ties with the European Union, with the two leaders confirming after talks in Bishkek that they remained divided over whether that process was compatible with Yerevan’s membership of the Eurasian Economic Union.

Relations between Armenia and Russia need to be “put on a healthier footing,” Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said as disagreements between the two countries intensify over issues ranging from railway management to Yerevan’s foreign-policy...

The CIA director’s proposal for a trilateral meeting has put diplomacy back on the agenda, but Moscow and Kyiv still fundamentally disagree over when negotiations should begin and how the war might end. There was something reminiscent of cold war...

Nikol Pashinyan’s government has formalised Yerevan’s foreign-policy shift by ceasing to call Moscow a strategic partner. Yet Russia’s military base, cheap gas, bilateral trade and Armenia’s membership of the Eurasian Economic Union mean that...