Armenia Cannot Be in Both EU and Russian Customs Bloc, Putin Says

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Armenia has shifted its foreign policy away from Russia in recent years, partly because Moscow did not intervene militarily when Azerbaijan launched an offensive against ethnic Armenian separatists in September 2023. The former Soviet republic froze its membership in the Russian-led security alliance, the CSTO, in 2024 and in the same year expressed interest in joining the European Union, further deepening its rift with Moscow, foreign media wri…

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Armenia cannot be a member of both the European Union and the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union, President Vladimir Putin told the Armenian prime minister on Wednesday, amid tensions over Yerevan's pro-Western ambitions.

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A former Soviet Republic of the Caucasus with about 2.7 million inhabitants, Armenia joined the Eurasian Economic Union, an alliance dominated by Russia, in 2015.