Russia and the Velvet Revolution of Armenia
Abstract
The article looks into the cause and the course of the Armenian velvet revolution that took place in spring 2018 and its impact on relations between Russia and Armenia. Given the fact that there are strong linkages between Armenian and Russian political elite and that both countries are members of major regional organizations - Eurasian Economic Community and Collective Security Treaty Organization, change of power obviously draw attention of Armenia’s strategic ally - Russia. Despite the non-interference of Russian authorities during the revolution, Russian public, government and expert society repeatedly changed their attitude to the events that occurred on the territory of the Armenia, both during the revolution and Pashinyan’s premiership.References
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8. Petrosyan, T. (2019). Armenian foreign policy elicited criticism of Pashinyan. KavkazskiyUsel. Retrieved fromhttps://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/328505/
9. Rosbalt. (2018, April). Armenian opposition deputy calls for civil disobedience. Retrieved from https://www.rosbalt.ru/world/2018/04/16/1696648.html
10. Regnum (2018) Corruption in Armenia is reaching an institutional scale. Retrieved from: https://regnum.ru/news/polit/1336630.html
11. Regnum. (2018). The Armenian economy grew by remarkable 7,5 per cent in 2017. Retrieved from: https://regnum.ru/news/2385550.html
12. RIA NEWS. (2019, June). Public Services Regulatory Commission fined Gasprom 20 thousand dollars. Retrieved from: https://ria.ru/20190605/1555296150.html?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fyandex.ru%2Fnews
13. Solovyov, V. (2019, September). In Gasprom subsidiary a major financial abuse was detected. Kommersant. Retrieved from https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3737317
14. Support Centre of Russian-armenian strategic and public initiatives. (2018, April). The State Duma ruled out Russian intervention in Armenia. Retrieved from http://russia-armenia.info/node/48470
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16. Transparency international. (2018) https://www.transparency.org/cpi2018
17. VestnikKavkaza. (2018, May). Russian expert society: About Velvet Revolution in Armenia. Retrieved from https://vestikavkaza.ru/analytics/Rossiyskie-eksperty-o-barkhatnoy-revolyutsii-v-Armenii.html
18. World Bank, Development Research Group. (2018) Poverty headcount ratio. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.UMIC
Published
2020-09-28
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NIPARISHVILI, Tamila; NIPARISHVILI, Kristina.
Russia and the Velvet Revolution of Armenia.
Politics / პოლიტიკა, [S.l.], sep. 2020.
ISSN 2449-2833.
Available at: <https://test.psage.tsu.ge/index.php/Politics/article/view/178>. Date accessed: 21 sep. 2024.
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