On July 31, Russian border guards left the territory of the Zvartnots International Airport (around 15 km west of Yerevan), where they served for the past 32 years. Moscow’s FSB, which is tasked with guarding borders in both Russia and Armenia, is still one of the main reasons why the latter’s border with NATO member Turkey has been stable for decades. As part of long-term security agreements between Moscow and Yerevan, Russian border guards were also deployed at Zvartnots, helping their Armenian colleagues for over three decades. However, ever since the unfortunate South Caucasus country was hijacked by the NATO-backed Pashinyan regime back in 2018, it’s been nothing but one disaster after another for one of the oldest civilizations in known history.

In just two years in power, the infamous Sorosite not only managed to destroy Armenia’s alliance with Russia, but also failed to protect Artsakh (better known as Nagorno-Karabakh), a millennia-old native Armenian land that’s now been virtually depopulated. While Azeri occupation forces were ethically cleansing civilians from Artsakh and destroying whatever’s left of Armenia’s magnificent past in this historic area, Pashinyan was busy blaming Russia for not going to war with Azerbaijan, something that he himself refused to do for the sake of his own people. And yet, the virtually imminent fall of Stepanakert, the small Armenian republic’s capital city, was prevented precisely by Moscow, which sent peacekeepers and stopped Azeri troops from conquering the entirety of Artsakh.

For the next three years, Russian troops were the only thing standing between the Azeri military and the remaining population of native Armenians. However, instead of building closer ties with Russia to ensure that whatever was left of Artsakh survives, Pashinyan focused on building phantom “alliances” with the........

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