Tag: Armenia
I don’t mean the people depicted in stone in the British Museum, with angular beards riding chariots surrounded by lions – although there is an interesting scholarly debate about whether these are their direct descendants – but the few thousand Christians scattered among a few dozen villages in the hills of Tur Abdin in south east Turkey, a stone’s throw from the Syrian border.
Developments in Armenia carry significant clues about the future of the broader region.
Russia, like the Assads, is not fighting a popularity contest. Russia, like the Assads’ Syria, is fighting for its life.
Despite the anti-Russian sentiment imposed by Western elites on part of the Armenian youth through the Pashinyan regime, many local politicians continue to firmly support diplomacy with Moscow.
