The geopolitical chessboard of the South Caucasus is being reshaped as Armenia boldly shifts its orientation toward the West. January has witnessed a flurry of strategic moves: Yerevan approved a bill initiating its bid to join the European Union and inked a Charter of Strategic Partnership with the United States in Washington.

Armenia has a clear will to withdraw from Russia's economic and military zone of influence, Finnish Parliament Speaker Jussi Halla-aho said on Thursday.

Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said in Moscow that his current trip had been preparing for three months, but was postponed for technical reasons. We believe that among the "technical reasons",

At a meeting with his Armenian counterpart in Moscow, Lavrov said the Kremlin was ready to assist in the normalisation of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations. View on euronews

The freshest details regarding the crash of an Embraer 190 aircraft belonging to Azerbaijan’s AZAL company near the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan, have been revealed.

BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 24. The West provoked Armenia last year to sever its longstanding ties with Russia, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said in a statement, Trend reports.

Azerbaijan has shown its ambitions extend to sovereign territory in Armenia: the seizure of the so-called Zangezur corridor in southern Armenia, in the region of Syunik.

Aleksandr Lukashenko also spoke about the Armenian leadership taking issue with Belarus. “They took issue with me for supporting Azerbaijan. I have always supported common sense. I have always been against war,

The Foreign Intelligence Service of Armenia considers it unlikely that sanctions against both Russia and Iran will be lifted or eased in 2025, which could potentially have a significant impact on Armenia's economy.

Lavrov responded that while Moscow has strategic partnerships and allied relationships with Armenia as well as with Azerbaijan it has a “vested interest” in seeing Armenia and Azerbaijan normalize their relations.

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russia values its close relations with Armenia and that the United States, which is set to sign a strategic partnership agreement with Armenia, had never played a stabilising role in the region.

January 2025 may go down as Armenia’s geopolitical inflection point, a time when Yerevan decisively moved to shun its longtime protector Russia and pin its political and economic future on integration with Western institutions, thus scrambling the strategic balance in the Caucasus.