Armenians head to the polls Sunday in a parliamentary election seen as a key test of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s pro-Western agenda.
The election comes amid rising tensions with Russia and accusations that Moscow is seeking to influence the vote in the former Soviet republic.
Still technically Yerevan's ally, Moscow has compared Armenia's EU ambitions to the same path that it claims triggered its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
The June 7 vote comes after years of upheaval since Pashinyan was propelled to power in a 2018 street revolution.
The small Caucasus country is recovering from the 2023 Azerbaijan military offensive that saw Baku reclaim its Karabakh region.
