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Public Radio of Armenia (30 January 2026)

Siranush Ghazanchyan

Russia has warned that Armenia’s closer alignment with the European Union could have negative consequences for its allied relations with Moscow and for integration processes across the post-Soviet space.

In an interview with TASS, Vladislav Maslennikov, Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Department for European Affairs, said that Yerevan’s interest in EU membership raises serious concerns, given what he described as the EU’s rapid transformation into an “aggressive military-political bloc” and its strategic course of confrontation with Russia.

“Armenia’s interest in joining this organization cannot but cause concern,” Maslennikov said, referring to the EU’s current trajectory.

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