Anonymous6 days ago
Armenia held parliamentary elections on June 7, 2026, in what amounts to a referendum on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's drive to exit Russia's security and economic orbit following Moscow's failure to protect ethnic Armenians during the 2023 Nagorno-Karabakh crisis. With polls showing Pashinyan's Civil Contract party leading a fragmented pro-Russian opposition, the vote carries extraordinary geopolitical stakes — but Armenia's deep energy, trade, and nuclear dependence on Russia means the break will be neither clean nor painless.