Early Thursday, two Armenian officials, including its foreign minister, jetted to Moscow for meetings with Russian officials, the Interfax news agency reported. “The internal political crisis in Armenia and Russian-Armenian allied relations will dominate the agenda,” it cited a source as saying. Supporters of Armenian protest leader Nikol Pashinyan attend a rally Thursday in downtown Yerevan. But for Pashinyan’s uprising to survive, and to complete the toppling of the ruling government, Russia cannot be ignored. Armenia’s peaceful, bloodless revolution already has become a unique case in the trajectory of former Soviet countries.

Source: Washington Post April 26, 2018 18:37 UTC