{"id":2260,"date":"2025-11-18T16:24:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2025-11-20T15:37:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:37:35","slug":"a-changing-landscape-for-armenia-russia-relations-a-colonial-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/2025\/a-changing-landscape-for-armenia-russia-relations-a-colonial-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Changing Landscape for Armenia-Russia Relations: A Colonial Legacy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2025\/11\/quo-vadis-armenia-768x463.webp); background-position: 50% 50%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        A Changing Landscape for Armenia-Russia Relations: A Colonial Legacy?\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                    \n\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ponarseurasia.org\/author\/nona-shahnazarian\/\">Dr. Nona Shahnazarian, IAE NAS RA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A Changing Landscape for Armenia\u2013Russia Relations: A Colonial Legacy<\/em> argues that Armenia\u2019s long-standing reliance on Russia\u2014rooted in imperial rule, Soviet governance, and post-1991 security dependency\u2014has produced a deeply asymmetrical, quasi-colonial relationship that continues to shape contemporary politics. The piece highlights how Russia\u2019s role in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, its use of \u201cfrozen conflicts\u201d as leverage, and the economic and migratory ties binding Armenians to Russian structures have reinforced this dependency even as Armenia seeks greater sovereignty after the 2018 Velvet Revolution. Russia\u2019s inconsistent support during crises, particularly the 2020 and 2023 conflicts, has accelerated an erosion of trust, prompting Armenia to reconsider its strategic orientation. Yet the legacy of Russian dominance\u2014embedded in institutions, security arrangements, and political culture\u2014complicates any attempt to reorient the country\u2019s foreign policy, leaving Armenia caught between historical dependency and a desire for genuine autonomy.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2025\/11\/A-Changing-Landscape-for-Armenia-Russia-Relations-A-Colonial-Legacy-2.pdf\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Changing Landscape for Armenia\u2013Russia Relations: A Colonial Legacy argues that Armenia\u2019s long-standing reliance on Russia\u2014rooted in imperial rule, Soviet governance, and post-1991 security dependency\u2014has produced a deeply asymmetrical, quasi-colonial relationship that continues to shape contemporary politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":2268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[101,84,117,1,37,94],"tags":[41,96,42],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenia","category-european-security","category-nagorno-karabakh","category-news","category-policy-brief","category-south-caucasus","tag-armenia","tag-caucasus","tag-russia"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2281,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions\/2281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}