Russia – Learning from Armenia

... to isolation, which is allegedly good for Russia, and so on. The United States in the most active of the external players in Armenia. Thus, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the key vehicle of American “soft power” in the world, had an official budget of $23 million in 2014. In 2015, it was increased to $27 million [26] . REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili Alexander Skakov: Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: March Madness However, we cannot rule out politicization of the mass protests (not necessarily over the tariffs issue) under certain circumstances, especially now that the authorities have started ...