The election in Armenia: everything you need to know. Who is opposing Pashinyan, what the polls show, and whether Armenians will fly in from Russia to vote for the right candidates?

The election in Armenia: everything you need to know. Who is opposing Pashinyan, what the polls show, and whether Armenians will fly in from Russia to vote for the right candidates?

On June seventh, elections to Armenia’s National Assembly — the local parliament — will take place. In the final month of the campaign, people have been talking not so much about the confrontation between the authorities and the opposition as about a clash between Yerevan and Moscow.

Russian officials are showering Armenia with threats about what to expect if it moves closer to the European Union, and this carries a clear hint: do not vote for Nikol Pashinyan, who is proposing a course toward European integration. He himself has even said that, if necessary, the country will leave the CSTO.

So how will these elections end? What consequences will they lead to? And is it true that one hundred thousand Armenian citizens will fly in from Russia to vote? These questions are answered in a text for Meduza by Roman Chernikov, a specialist on the post-Soviet space.

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Tomorrow is election day in Armenia. It will decide how the country develops from here: toward Europe or Russia

On June 7, elections to Armenia’s National Assembly — the local parliament — will take place. In the final month of the campaign, people have been talking not so much about the confrontation between the authorities and the opposition as about a clash between Yerevan and Moscow. Russian officials are showering threats…