On February 18, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, during a meeting with the Armenian diaspora in Munich, Germany, announced that Yerevan is not Moscow’s ally on the issue of Ukraine.
Pashinyan emphasised that he regrets the inability to influence the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The head of the government of Armenia, which after 2022 became the 4th largest exporter of semiconductors and other dual-use goods for war needs to the Russian Federation, in his speech called the Ukrainian nation “friendly”.
Official Yerevan, which has been actively creating the impression of reorientation towards the West, has served as one of the Kremlin’s main logistics hubs for circumventing sanctions throughout the two years of the war between Russia and Ukraine.
In 2022, the GDP of tiny Armenia, with a population of three million, grew by an unprecedented 14.2 per cent. The UK’s Telegraph said of this: “The most absurd thing is the economic growth of Armenia… which makes it a candidate for third place in the list of the fastest gr
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