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One of Russia's allies says it is quitting Putin's rival to NATO, in the latest snub to the Kremlin
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A key Russian ally said it is quitting the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a group widely considered to be President Vladimir Putin’s answer to NATO.
Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who has repeatedly snubbed Russia, said in parliament on Wednesday that he will take his country out of the Moscow-led CSTO alliance, the Associated Press reported.
Experts previously told Business Insider that Putin founded the alliance — made up of Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan — as a rival to NATO, and that he wanted to project power by leading a multinational body, despite most of the members not having notable militaries or large economies.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that Russia “will continue to work with our Armenian friends” to clarify their position, state-controlled Russian news agency TASS reported.
Peter Frankopan, an expert on Russian and Balkans history at Oxford University, told BI that while other CSTO countries will likely give a “shrug of the shoulders,” Moscow will ultimately have a stronger response.
Pashinyan was also irked when Russian peacekeeping troops did not come to Armenia’s aid last year when Azerbaijan attacked a separatist region that had been largely under the control of ethnic Armenians.
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