Armenia Signals a Historic Break From Russia After Landmark Election
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Armenia's expert and essayist Michel Marian talks in a forum in the "World" about the challenges facing the Prime Minister and his party, Civil Contract, who won the 7 June general elections, with almost 50% of the vote.
Armenia Signals a Historic Break From Russia After Landmark Election
Armenia appears ready to press ahead with its geopolitical transition away from Russia toward the West after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract Party registered a convincing victory in the country’s June 7 parliamentary election. Pre-election polls had pegged Civil Contract’s support at a little over 30 percent. But on election day, the party garnered just under 50 percent of the ballots cast, according to preliminary figures publis…
The Prime Minister has won thanks to his positive message, but he threatens to become a threat to Armenia's democracy.
In Moscow, in view of the reactions on Russian televisions, the party of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pachinian largely won the parliamentary elections on Sunday. After counting in all the polling stations, the Civil Contract party of Mr Pachinian clearly ahead its opponent, the Armenian strong alliance of Russian-Armenian businessman Samvel Karapetian, with respectively 49.8% and 23.3% of the votes. The participation rate rose to 59%.
On the air of RUSARMINFO under the "Nver Mnatsakanian Day" programme, an expert from the Strategic Culture Foundation, political scientist Andrei Areshev, called for an assessment of the results of the elections in Armenia as balanced as possible and without emotional assessments. According to the expert, it is particularly important to maintain a pragmatic approach in the relations between Armenia and Russia in the present context. He stressed …
The United States today congratulated the Prime Minister of Armenia on his party's victory in Sunday's parliamentary elections and expressed the will to work on the peace plan with Azerbaijan, through Trump.
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