With 49,8 % of the votes. The pro Russian opposition got 23,3 % of the votes.
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23%+9.9%+3.99%. There is a lot of pro-russian opposition in Armenia.
Not much different than the 33% supporters of maga who are Russia lovers in the US.
I think they arrested 700 from that opposition and it's leader is under house arrest, for threatening a coup or something, which the pro russian group denies.
If Russia wanted to keep Armenia in it's orbit, they should've backed them up against Azerbaijan.
'...A spate of arrests before the election targeted the opposition, including parliamentary candidates for Strong Armenia. Party founder Samvel Karapetyan, Pashinyan's main rival, said over 700 people associated with the group had been arrested. "Rest assured the elections are not over yet and there are no results. They (the authorities) will not get the victory they desire," Russia's Interfax news agency quoted him as saying. Karapetyan campaigned on a pro-business platform and close ties with Moscow. He is under house arrest on charges of calling for the overthrow of the government, which he rejects as politically motivated.'
What was the other 1/4 for neutrality?
Any other party. But only one other party is needed for a coalition government.
Turns out ppl don’t wanna have shitty friends I guess
Karapetyan was already under house arrest under politically motivated accusations(, before that it was Seyran Ohanyan and Artsvik Minasyan, as well as Artur Sargsyan, and seven others, and Robert Kocharyan, pro-russian clerics as well)
(Strong Armenia was not a marginal force but the main challenger, and Armenia reproduced what most "democratic" eastern european countries did post-1991 and post-2022)
(https://www.reuters.com/world/armenia-arrests-six-candidates-pro-russian-opposition-day-before-vote-2026-06-06)
(https://files.catbox.moe/rf61vh.mp4)
(Important to understand that the russian interference they're talking about are economic threats : vote anti-russian and be prepared for economic difficulties caused by Russia, just like the EU did to Georgia and others. In comparison the e.u. promises a €270M plan for 2024-2027 if Armenia is pro-EU, and relies on the European Endowment for Democracy for covert influence, particularly towards medias and personalities, as well as disinformation programs in Armenia/Azerbaijan/Belarus/Georgia/Ukraine/Moldova/.. in order to counter pro-russian "disinformation" medias.
In both cases, an external power tries to influence a country's trajectory, both in the name of what is Good of course(, and hopefully))
Am i necessarily criticizing the e.u. there ? Let's see : by containing Russia, they'll eventually be able to include it inside the West(, which would become the North), probably splitting the federation to ensure more control. After all, the goal is to be bigger than the others, until having the whole world, unified in a uniformity that got rid of all diversities(, instead of living with them). By ensuring the security of everyone(, e.g. through a world army preventing overt actions and an effective/incorruptible tribunal to prevent covert actions,) there wouldn't be these conflicts, city-states with their own constitution/laws would be great as well and no more military budget.
Seems like i was criticizing the e.u. yes.
If the security of everyone is ensured, then Russia's rise wouldn't be a threat to the european union, nor would be the rise of any other country(, except if they can't manage to prevent that some of their citizens hear about some forbidden foreign ideas, not ideal for them but not really insecurity either), and i'm interested to see what kind of diversity an inoffensive 'Russian Federation'/'slavic civilization' will bring to the world since it 'has the potential to be'/'already is' one of the centers of our world.