Paschinjan betrat den Kreml mit drei Fallen. Putin verliebte sich in sie alle.

Putin and Pashinyan met at the Kremlin on April 1. Three things stood out. Pashinyan pointed out on camera that Putin’s preferred opposition candidates hold Russian passports, making them constitutionally ineligible to become Armenian PM. He told Putin that Armenia is shopping nuclear plant bids against Rosatom. And he reframed the US-backed transit corridor as something that benefits Russian trade. The same day, Russia’s Deputy PM Overchuk told TASS the corridor disrupted a regional balance „that has existed since 1828, when the Treaty of Turkmenchay was signed,“ dating Moscow’s claim over the South Caucasus to an imperial conquest treaty.