{"id":1402370,"date":"2026-06-07T22:08:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T19:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/elections-in-armenia-russia-will-definitely-leave-the-south-caucasus\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T22:08:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T19:08:42","slug":"elections-in-armenia-russia-will-definitely-leave-the-south-caucasus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/elections-in-armenia-russia-will-definitely-leave-the-south-caucasus\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections in Armenia: Russia will definitely leave the South Caucasus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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June 7 is perhaps one of the most important days for the future of what remains of the post-Soviet space. The Kremlin turned the seemingly trivial parliamentary elections in Armenia into a real battle \u2013 with threats, product bans and a landing of Russian residents with Armenian passports to support the party of a Russian businessman without an Armenian passport. Some complete trash \u2013 but that’s always the case with Putin!<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, if you look closely at the historical context, it will be obvious how important control over the South Caucasus is for the master of the Kremlin. It has somehow been erased from our memory that the events in the Soviet Union, if we talk about public movements in the union republics, actually began not with Lithuania, but with Armenia. With the “Karabakh” committee.<\/p>\n

And here’s what’s important: the KGB gladly exploited the mood that prevailed in society at the time, the feeling of injustice due to the fact that the territory with the Armenian majority is part of Azerbaijan and that someone from the outside wants to change the territory of Azerbaijan in order to literally push the peoples against each other and thus build an ideal trap for both Azerbaijanis and Armenians – and in addition to contributing to the destabilization of the situation in the Soviet Union and demonstrating the ineffectiveness and helplessness of the party leadership.<\/p>\n

When the communist empire finally collapsed and people from the KGB (now the FSB) began to climb to power in Russia, the doors of the Caucasian mousetrap remained firmly closed. Moreover, when the new president of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev, himself a former head of the KGB of the Azerbaijani SSR, made an attempt to break out and come to an agreement with his Armenian counterpart, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, a former head of the Karabakh committee, the Kremlin organized a military coup in Armenia and transferred power to its protege and former president of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh republic, Robert Kocharyan. In essence, what happened in Armenia then was what happened in Ukraine in 1994 – only Kocharyan was not Kuchma, but rather Medvedchuk.<\/p>\n\t\t