{"id":13556,"date":"2026-05-24T06:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T06:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/24\/armenia-cooperation-russia-challenges-geopolitics\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T06:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T06:16:14","slug":"armenia-cooperation-russia-challenges-geopolitics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/24\/armenia-cooperation-russia-challenges-geopolitics\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia Emphasizes Continuation of Cooperation with Russia Despite Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia&#8217;s Foreign Minister has stated that despite some challenges in the relations between Yerevan and Moscow, his country remains interested in maintaining and expanding bilateral cooperation with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the media, Ararat Mirzoyan said that Yerevan has always sought to develop relations with Moscow and considers this approach a key part of its foreign policy. According to him, Armenia strives to manage its relations with various partners based on mutual interests.<\/p>\n<p>He also emphasized that Armenia&#8217;s strategic cooperation with the United States and the European Union is not against Russia, and the country continues mutually beneficial cooperation with its foreign partners in various fields.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Armenian Foreign Minister acknowledged that there are problems in the relations between Moscow and Yerevan. In recent months, Armenia&#8217;s efforts to get closer to the European Union and the United States have been cited as one of the main causes of the deterioration in relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, the relations between Armenia and Russia have held significant geopolitical importance in the South Caucasus region, and any changes in these relations carry considerable regional repercussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia reaffirms commitment to cooperation with Russia despite challenges, while maintaining ties with the US and EU amid regional geopolitical tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}