Recently, Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan confirmed that his country would pull out of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), amid a widening rift with Russia.
- Armenia’s ties with Russia have become strained since Moscow refused to intervene in Nagorno-Karabakh.
- Russia had acted as guarantor of a peace deal that ended a 44-day war with Azerbaijan over the disputed territory Nagorno-Karabakh three years ago however Azerbaijan’s larger army was able to capture the disputed territory.
- The CSTO alliance, formed in 2002, consists of six post-Soviet states — Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
