EU leaders and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan after the first EU–Armenia summit in Yerevan, May 5, 2026
Armenia in Europe’s spotlight
What Yerevan gained from the summits
A turning point
The EU as a civilizational alternative
Until recently, Georgia was considered the EU’s main ally and partner in the Caucasus. However, the dramatic political turn in Tbilisi, coupled with the 2020…
EU leaders and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan after the first EU–Armenia summit in Yerevan, May 5, 2026
Armenia in Europe’s spotlight
What Yerevan gained from the summits
A turning point
The EU as a civilizational alternative

Nikol Pashinyan acknowledged that the decision to admit a country to the EU is a political one, and that Brussels could at any…

Dmitry Sorokin recalled that a special session on the situation in Ukraine was organized during the summit

Two European summits are being held in a country long considered Russia's closest ally in the region.

Once one of Moscow's closest allies in the South Caucasus, Armenia has recently handed the Kremlin a series of diplomatic…

Yury Ushakov noted that Armenia’s pivot toward the EU was a major talking point at the EAEU summit

Yet another nation formerly in Russia's orbit primed to be pulled into Western alignment...