Armenia and Russia: Pragmatics and Stereotypes

... policy of Yerevan. However, the military-political sphere is also the most controversial one in terms of perceptions of Russia not only among the wider public, but among Armenian authorities too. Russia’s large-scale military-technical cooperation (MTC) with Azerbaijan plays the most negative role in the perception of the former within Armenian society and the elite. Accordingly, Russia’s reduction in investments and the lack of obvious benefits for Armenia from its membership in the EEU make the socio-economic sphere look even more problem-plagued, at least in the eyes of the Armenian public. Russia’s military-technical cooperation with Azerbaijan has intensified since 2011 [4] , when Moscow began supplying Baku with S-300PMU2 ...