*A traditional Moscow ally, Armenia has pivoted to the West since the Ukraine war began, and its PM now says it could seek EU membership.*
>Moscow paid and trained a ring of insurgents in a bid to overthrow Armenia’s pro-Western government earlier this year, prosecutors in the country have said, but local security forces disrupted the alleged plot.
In a statement on Wednesday, the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Armenia said seven people would be charged with “preparing to usurp power … using violence and the threat of violence to take over the powers of government.”
>According to the officials, six Armenians were recruited to undergo three months of training in Russia and were paid monthly salaries of 220,000 rubles ($2,377) while learning how to use weaponry. They also reportedly underwent background checks and polygraph tests to determine their allegiances, before being transferred to “Arbat military base” in Rostov-on-Don, southern Russia.
>Relations between Armenia and its historical ally, Russia, have soured since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022, with the South Caucasus country freezing its membership of the Moscow-led CSTO military alliance, dispatching humanitarian aid to Kyiv and staging joint drills with U.S. forces.
>At the same time, Armenia’s long-time rival Azerbaijan has forged closer relations with the Kremlin, with President Ilham Aliyev holding friendly talks with President Vladimir Putin in Baku last month. Moscow has accused the EU of trespassing in its self-declared sphere of influence by signing partnership deals with the Armenian government.
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I thought from the headline maybe this would be about that archbishop Galstanyan guy who had been leading those giant protests earlier but reading [some](https://kyivindependent.com/armenia-coup/) other [articles](https://www.azatutyun.am/amp/33125359.html) these aren’t famous prominent people and are more like seven random Armenians from Armenia & NK living in Russia who were offered a total of $7,200 to stay at some Russian military base and learn how to use heavy weapons while promising to coup the country? Then when three got cold feet from and came back they just got promptly arrested and the other four were found out?
The plot just sounds so random and improbable to accomplish anything
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*A traditional Moscow ally, Armenia has pivoted to the West since the Ukraine war began, and its PM now says it could seek EU membership.*
>Moscow paid and trained a ring of insurgents in a bid to overthrow Armenia’s pro-Western government earlier this year, prosecutors in the country have said, but local security forces disrupted the alleged plot.
In a statement on Wednesday, the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Armenia said seven people would be charged with “preparing to usurp power … using violence and the threat of violence to take over the powers of government.”
>According to the officials, six Armenians were recruited to undergo three months of training in Russia and were paid monthly salaries of 220,000 rubles ($2,377) while learning how to use weaponry. They also reportedly underwent background checks and polygraph tests to determine their allegiances, before being transferred to “Arbat military base” in Rostov-on-Don, southern Russia.
>Relations between Armenia and its historical ally, Russia, have soured since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022, with the South Caucasus country freezing its membership of the Moscow-led CSTO military alliance, dispatching humanitarian aid to Kyiv and staging joint drills with U.S. forces.
>At the same time, Armenia’s long-time rival Azerbaijan has forged closer relations with the Kremlin, with President Ilham Aliyev holding friendly talks with President Vladimir Putin in Baku last month. Moscow has accused the EU of trespassing in its self-declared sphere of influence by signing partnership deals with the Armenian government.
I thought from the headline maybe this would be about that archbishop Galstanyan guy who had been leading those giant protests earlier but reading [some](https://kyivindependent.com/armenia-coup/) other [articles](https://www.azatutyun.am/amp/33125359.html) these aren’t famous prominent people and are more like seven random Armenians from Armenia & NK living in Russia who were offered a total of $7,200 to stay at some Russian military base and learn how to use heavy weapons while promising to coup the country? Then when three got cold feet from and came back they just got promptly arrested and the other four were found out?
The plot just sounds so random and improbable to accomplish anything