"Fact" daily writes:
As is known, RA Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken signed the RA-US strategic partnership document in Washington.
Regarding this, there are different interpretations, even the fact that it does not mean anything in particular. It is clear that there should have been a reaction from Russia. In particular, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said:
"Developing relations with all countries, including the USA, is Armenia's sovereign right. The Russian Federation intends to build its ties with Armenia."
At the same time, Peskov emphasized that the USA has never played a stabilizing role in the South Caucasus, on the contrary.
Basically, Russia's reaction to the signing of the US-RA document cannot be considered harsh.
According to the "Republic Square" Telegram channel, the reaction is not harsh, because they understand that the USA will not do anything to support Armenia, either militarily or politically. "American troops will not protect Syunik from a new Turkish-Azerbaijani attack, and the US is not going to fire rockets at Baku or Ankara for the sake of Armenia."
On the other hand, Moscow makes it clear to the RA authorities through various channels that it is impossible to be in the EAEU and, at the same time, to be a part of the EU.
"The Russian authorities have recently announced that leaving the EAEU will have serious social and economic consequences for the Armenian economy, including the revision of gas prices for Armenia.
Russia has many economic and energy levers to influence Armenia," the authors point out and recall in particular the words of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that Armenia's membership in the European Union is incompatible with simultaneous participation in the EAEU.
According to the authors, Moscow is sending a message to Pashinyan and his team that it is impossible to become an anti-Russian platform or a new Ukraine in the South Caucasus against the Russian Federation, and continue to benefit from cheap Russian energy sources and the economic dividends provided by EAEU, that is, the time of sitting on two chairs is over. It was announced that a Trump-Putin meeting is possible in the near future.
As a result, according to the Telegram channel, a new geopolitical division will take place in the world, and the South Caucasus will probably pass into Moscow's sphere of influence. "As of now, the supporters of the restoration of relations with the Russian Federation are in power in Georgia, the forces guided by pragmatism, who do not want to become a trench against the Russian Federation, but do not cut economic and political ties with the West either.
Azerbaijan has close military-political, economic, energy, transport ties and projects with Russia, including the North-South railway, through which Russia will go to Iran and the Persian Gulf through Azerbaijan.
Armenia should not oppose Russia in order to appear more Western, but should deepen military-political ties with Moscow, give a new quality to ties with Iran by implementing the North-South project and bring investments and technologies from the West to the Armenian economy.
Russia and Iran are going to sign a new military-political agreement, and Armenia should not turn into an anti-Russian and anti-Iranian platform of Anglo-Saxon forces in the South Caucasus. its consequence will be the occupation of Syunik by Baku and the opening of the Zangezur corridor by force of arms.
Thus, significant geopolitical changes will take place in the South Caucasus in the near future.
RA should take advantage of the new status quo and, not opposing the power centers, by pursuing a pragmatic policy, achieve the rearming of the Armenian army, the strengthening of the economy, as well as stop the spread of anti-Russian sentiments in RA and the propaganda of westernism, as the only way to save RA."
