The European Union, with its newly created foreign policy tool – the EU Monitoring Mission in Armenia – aims to monitor the conflict situation on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Russia perceives this mission as competition and a threat to its interests. The situation is complicated by the fact that Russian border guard units are deployed on Armenian territory – on the same border that the EU mission is monitoring. What problems arise here, why, and how can they be solved?
Areg Kochinyan’s article in the German Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.