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  • 2018-04-23 (xsd:date)
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  • Armenia has been involved in an armed conflict with neighboring Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. The conflict led to a near-total blockade of Armenia’s borders: its border with Azerbaijan and its ally Turkey have been completely closed (en)
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  • Moscow responded to the resignation of Armenia’s Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan on April 23 with calm certainty, saying the political turmoil in Yerevan will not affect the relations between the two countries. Sargsyan, who previously served as Armenia’s president, stepped down as prime minister amid mass protests.ARMENIA -- People celebrate after the release of the leader of Armenia's mass anti-government protests Nikol Pashinian in Yerevan, April 23, 2018Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament, said that the political changes in Armenia will not affect cooperation between the two nations and that Russia will remain Armenia’s closest ally.Armenia, a Eurasian country half the size of the U.S. state of West Virginia, is surrounded by Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia.Armenia’s alliance with Russia is dictated by a need to survive (en)
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