Armenia’s Crossroads: Approaching the European Union in the Face of Russia’s Close Surveillance

El Pais

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The police carefully examine the documents in the check-in gate of Yerevan airport, the Armenian capital, and plant the stamp on the passport of the newcomer. Mount Ararat, the mountain that means so much in the history of the small country of the South Caucasus, is no longer on that seal. Less than a year ago it appeared. It was removed a few months ago by the Prime Minister’s Government, Nikol Pashinián, the same one that always features a wel…