All right, Alexander, let's do an update on what is going on in Armenia.

I believe we had in Minsk a CSTO meeting, didn't we?

And am I right to say that Armenia didn't attend?

Yeah.

Right.

I mean, they didn't attend.

What happened there?

Right.

I mean, they sent some, you know, civil servants, some officials,

but they didn't participate at the political level.

So Putin was there, Lukashenko was there, the other leaders of the CSTO states were there.

Pashinian himself was obviously not there and no political leader was there.

Now, Armenia is saying that they have no intention of leaving the CSTO, but they are clearly leaving it in spirit.

And apparently, they are in now discussions with the US and France to get weapons from these two countries.

And the US is telling them you must close the Russian military base in Armenia, which is there as part of the CSDO.

So what the Armenians are trying to do in, is that they want to continue to hide behind the CSTO security guarantees,

because they need the CSTO to protect them from Azerbaijan and from Turkey.

But at the same time, they want to end their own participation.

They want, in effect, to have their cake and eat it as well.

And there were some very tart comments about this from Lukashenko.

The Russians obviously have seen through all of this.

I think gradually, if the Armenians continue this way, the Russians and the others will simply tell them, look, are you in the CSDO or not? If not, then go. If you want to stay,

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