Description:
The Duran on Nikol Pashinyan's push to pull Armenia away from Russia and the CSTO toward the European Union, Azerbaijan and Turkey, and why the pivot threatens Armenia's security and economy — from Nagorno Karabakh to Russian gas.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Pashinyan's push to take Armenia into the EU
00:00:29 Breaking from Russia and the CSTO security umbrella
00:00:58 Pashinyan's base of support and the NGOs
00:01:23 Armenia's lost security guarantee from Russia
00:02:09 Risk to Russia Armenia economic and trade ties
00:03:07 Russia's gas and export leverage over Armenia
00:03:58 Azerbaijan's territorial demands over Nakhchivan
00:04:24 Pashinyan conceding Nagorno Karabakh to Azerbaijan
00:05:15 Why Western security guarantees are an illusion
00:07:04 NGOs, the US Embassy and Armenia's powerful diaspora