Putin fails to persuade Pashinyan to reconsider Armenia’s rapprochement with EU

The 113,000 border crossings recorded at Upper Lars have revived fears of mobilisation. Yet the data do not so far confirm a new mass migration to the South Caucasus. The Upper Lars crossing between Russia and Georgia has once again become a...

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...