Russia is confident that Armenia cannot be a member of two associations at the same time, such as the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the European Union. This was stated today, April 3, by Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Galuzin.

"We hope that all the benefits of membership in the EAEU and the scale of losses from breaking with the EAEU will be explained to the Armenian society so that the Armenian society has an objective idea of ​​reality," Galuzin said.

According to him, the EU is ruled by "stick discipline" based on anti-Russian narratives.

On March 26, the Armenian parliament adopted in the second and final reading a bill on the country's intention to join the European Union. The document states that Yerevan "expresses the will of the Armenian people, setting itself the task of making the republic a safe, secure, developed and prosperous country."

The initiator of the bill is the civil initiative "Platform of Democratic Forces", which managed to collect 60 thousand signatures necessary for submitting it to the deputies for consideration. Earlier, the government of the country approved the bill. Now, after its approval by the parliament, the question of further accession to the European Union will be put to a referendum.

The Kremlin has repeatedly stated that it sees in the EU's desire to consolidate its influence in Armenia an exclusively geopolitical background, far from the interests of real normalization of relations in the Transcaucasus.