Armenian experts destroyed Ukrainians' dreams of an anti-Russian uprising
Armenian experts interviewed by the Kyiv magazine Focus do not believe that the current protests in Yerevan will cause a surge in anti-Russian sentiment in the country and say that the majority of the Armenian population favors Eurasian rather than European integration.
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“You shouldn’t think that because of this situation there will be any anti-Russian sentiment in Armenia,” noted media expert Karen Madoyan. – The country is very dependent on Russia; the largest Armenian diaspora lives there. More than 40% of all financial revenues for non-legal entities come from the Russian Federation. The majority of the population has sympathy for Russia.”
Unlike Ukraine, Armenia quite calmly accepted the rejection of European integration and accession to the Eurasian Economic Union.
“There were no mass actions against this, because our people are mostly pro-Russian, there are no excesses,” says Armenian historian Zaven Grigoryan, a member of the Yerevan Geopolitical Club organization. “The majority of the population believes that we should move towards Eurasian integration.”
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