Armenia Looks to Expand Alliances and Role in Its Region

Increasingly, one of the defining characteristics of Vladimir Putin's leadership has been its propensity to push the narrative that the Kremlin has a special relationship with ethnic Russians and Russian speakers abroad, groups that Moscow typically lumps together as “the Russian World” (“Russkiy Mir”). Less widely known is that every post-Soviet state has a significant number of co-ethnics living abroad, …