Newspaper: Armenia authorities have major problems in relations with Russia

YEREVAN. – Several days ago, representatives of the United Russia party and of seven other political parties from other countries of the Eurasian Economic Union took part in the Eurasian Conference held in Yerevan at the invitation of Prosperous Armenia Party leader Gagik Tsarukyan, 168hours reported.

“[But] the noteworthy thing is that no representative from the ruling Civil Contract (CC) Party, or from the parliamentary [majority] My Step faction [of Armenia] was invited to that conference.

“This is essentially an important message because [political] party ties have always been used for promoting state ties, forming relations, and the fact that the interaction—in both official and informal formats—with [Armenian] Prime Minister [Nikol] Pashinyan’s party was actually absent by the Russians, once again proves that no matter how much the new [Armenian] authorities are ‘drumming’ about the opposite, nonetheless, there are very major problems, to put it mildly, in [their] relations with the Russians,” 168hours wrote.