INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian officials privately admit that their chances of preventing an Armenian exit from the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty
Organization (CSTO) are slim, two Russian officials, one current and one retired Russian diplomat, and a former CSTO official have told The
seeks to avoid losing one of its closest military allies and a blow to its interests in the region, officials in Moscow understand that the
longer the rift between Yerevan and Moscow lasts, the less likely it is that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will back down, The Moscow
Along with the Russian military base in Gyumri, it is an outpost against NATO member Turkey, which has a strong army standing across the
September 2023 capture of the breakaway republic of Nagorno-Karabakh.But this week, Pashinyan for the first time said that Armenia intends
to leave the CSTO, a military-political bloc comprising six post-Soviet allies.He also accused fellow CSTO member Belarusian President
Wednesday, Pashinyan, who has faced weeks of mass protests in the center of Yerevan over an agreement to hand several border villages to
without offering further detail.The next day, he poured oil on the fire by issuing a public appeal to Moscow to expel Belarus from the CSTO
Pashinyan accused Lukashenko of supporting Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev ahead of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, which eventually ended
that Belarus secretly delivered advanced weapons to Azerbaijan between 2018 and 2020.Pashinyan said he would reconsider his stance on
CSTOspokesman on Thursday sought to downplay the tensions, with Kremlin Dmitry Peskovsaying that Russia still sees Armenia as an ally.Gate
participation in the alliance, refusing to appoint a representative to the post of deputy secretary-general and refusing to pay its 2024
financial contribution.The unprecedented tensions within the CSTO reflect both the deepening rift between Moscow and Yerevan as well as the
First Pashinyan enlisted thesupport of the U.S., then he decided to make a withdrawal statement
Unfortunately, all these steps show that Armenia is starting to halt its activities in the CSTO and is getting closer and closer to the
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