"The military bloc " Russia's answer to NATO " is made up of six former Soviet states: Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

However, Pashinyan has accused the CSTO of failing to intervene after his country was attacked by neighboring Azerbaijan in 2022.

He has also said Russian peacekeepers failed in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh last year, when Azerbaijan launched an offensive that sparked the mass exodus of its 100,000 ethnic Armenian residents.

As a result, Armenia had vowed it would "freeze" its membership of the alliance, recall its representatives and would not contribute financially to its budget. Moscow has insisted that Yerevan will be "obliged" to pay its dues regardless.

Instead, Pashinyan's government has staged joint drills with U.S. forces, called for help from the West to strengthen its democracy and even hinted it could one day seek to join the EU.

Russian border guards have since been withdrawn from their positions along Armenia's borders with its neighbors."

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The Armenia comments on the Inside Russia link are at about 32 min in.

#2

Yeah, he worked on Nuclear Power Plants in Russia, lived in the US for some years, and left Russia after the Ukraine invasion... Safety First for him and his family.

5

Obviously the democratically elected leader of Armenia is actually a Nazi American Jewish Spy!

He needs to be removed by attacking civilian targets.