“One would be naive to still believe that if the Turks attack, the Russians would shield us,” Kochinyan stated.

In an interview with Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Times), Aregh Kochinyan, President of the Research Center on Security Policy, commented on the Prime Minister’s visits to Paris and Brussels, the Pashinyan–Aliyev meeting, as well as the recent announcement by Russian-Armenian businessman Samvel Karapetyan regarding the formation of a new political force.