lillitMel

[lillitMel @LillitMel]

@Artak_Beglaryan 🤮🤮🤮🤮

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

Extend sincere congratulations to His Excellency PM Nikol Pashinyan for his party's electoral victory.

Our neighbors are our priority.

[Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz @bundeskanzler]

Glückwunsch an @NikolPashinyan und das armenische Volk. Die Menschen in Armenien haben sich trotz enormen Drucks klar für Demokratie und Frieden entschieden. Ich freue mich darauf, unsere bilaterale und die europäische Zusammenarbeit mit Armenien weiter zu vertiefen!

[lillitMel @LillitMel]

@latiniano 64

[Joe Wilson @RepJoeWilson]

Congratulations to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on his sweeping electoral victory! This is a repudiation of Russia’s malign interference and an affirmation of the Armenian people’s goal of peace and prosperity in the region. A South Caucasus free of Russian, Chinese, and Iranian influence means a bright and successful future. President Trump’s vision proved correct!!

[ARMENPRESS News @armenpress]

🇮🇳🇦🇲Modi congratulates Pashinyan on “impressive” victory

https://t.co/OG4WXdXAEQ

[Andrii Sybiha 🇺🇦 @andrii_sybiha]

Congratulations to the people of Armenia on successfully holding free and democratic elections. Best wishes of success to the winners, @NikolPashinyan and his party, in achieving great results for their country.

This election shows that only Armenians will decide on the future of their country.

An important geopolitical conclusion is that Moscow’s attempts to interfere and destabilise Armenia failed — just like they earlier failed in Romania, Moldova, Hungary, and other countries.

This shows that Russia’s influence continues to fade. Moscow no longer proposes anything valuable for any other country except threats, blackmail, and imperial arrogance.

Now is the best time for Europe and the EU to act, build on the momentum, and deliver tangible results for Armenia. Unlike Russia, closer cooperation with the European community means greater security, prosperity, and freedom.

[Donald Tusk @donaldtusk]

Nikol Pashinyan wins. Armenia has chosen continuity and confirmed its pro-European direction. An important signal that the future of the region is still being written.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Congratulations to Mr. Nikol Pashinyan on the impressive victory of the Civil Contract Party in the parliamentary elections. The renewed mandate reflects the enduring trust and confidence of the people of Armenia in your leadership and vision. I look forward to working closely with you to further deepen the warm and historic ties of friendship and cooperation between India and Armenia.

@NikolPashinyan

[lillitMel @LillitMel]

@ismayilbaylir in fact Armenians are all for peace.

[lillitMel @LillitMel]

@ismayilbaylir in most regions Pashinyans
party won. in 10 provinces they won 55+%
and the participant’s rates were higher than usual. this all because of armenian citizens living in russia that returned to vote and to fly back as they told
in interviews. and also in yerevan lot of bribes

[Omne Europa @neolatyno]

In Yerevan, there was a massive crowd of Russian Armenian citizens whom Moscow sent to vote against Pashinyan’s European agenda.

But they didn’t pass unnoticed.
They had to be reminded there are rights and obligations: they were handed army draft notices!

[Roberta Metsola @EP_President]

Congratulations @NikolPashinyan on the victory in Armenia’s national elections.

Let us continue building on this renewed momentum to strengthen EU-Armenia relations 🇪🇺🇦🇲

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

I congratulate Armenia on holding democratic and free elections, and @NikolPashinyan on his victory. This is also a victory for Armenia’s sovereignty, your independence, and your right to live the way you choose. We wish you success.

Ukraine is ready to expand our cooperation, and now is precisely the time for the European Union to provide real support to Armenia and do everything necessary to ensure that people feel their lives are better thanks to their relationship with Europe. This is a test for the European Union. It is important not to lose time or miss opportunities.

[euronews @euronews]

"A historic victory."

Armenian PM Pashinyan has claimed victory in the country's tightly contested election, closely watched by both Brussels and Moscow.

The result gives Pashinyan a mandate for Armenia’s balanced pro-West course. @Janeyspoon reports for #EuropeToday.

[Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn @GunterFehlinger]

We won Armenia

[Press Office of the President of Kazakhstan @aqorda_press]

🇰🇿🇦🇲 The President @TokayevKZ congratulated Prime Minister of Armenia @NikolPashinyan on the victory of the #CivilContract Party in the parliamentary elections.

According to preliminary assessments of the majority of international observers, the elections were conducted in compliance with the country's current electoral legislation, in an open and transparent manner, ensuring the free expression of the citizens' will.

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev wished Nikol Pashinyan continued success in his work in the long-term national interests of Armenia.

The President reaffirmed Kazakhstan's readiness to continue active cooperation with Armenia across all areas of mutual interest.

The Head of State extended his best wishes to the Armenian people for their country's continued development, peace, and prosperity.

[Reuters @Reuters]

🔊 Armenia heads to the polls with pro-Russian opposition parties challenging PM Pashinyan's peace deal with Azerbaijan. @lucypapa96 reports from the ground. Hear the latest on today's episode of Reuters World News. https://t.co/BLK31EAYI6

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Europe Wins Again. Obviously.

Armenia went to the polls yesterday. And the results are exactly what you’d expect if you’d been paying attention for the past five years, rather than wallowing in Kremlin nostalgia like a damp sock.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared victory on Monday, with his Civil Contract Party leading with 52.5% of the vote.  Armenia, a landlocked country the size of Belgium that Russia has spent decades treating as a vassal state, has looked at its options and made a decision that required roughly the same level of intellectual effort as choosing between a Michelin-starred restaurant and a skip fire.

They chose Europe.

This election was less a routine vote than a referendum on Pashinyan’s post-2020 course reducing dependence on Russia and moving toward an explicit European orientation. And Russia, naturally, did everything in its power to stop it. According to Reuters, citing Western intelligence officials, the election faced heavy Russian covert interference, including disinformation campaigns and a plan to transport Russian Armenians into Armenia to sway the vote. One analyst collective described it as one of the largest state-backed disinformation campaigns in modern European history. And Armenia still told them to get lost.

Putin had already warned Armenia it would face economic consequences for drifting westward, and introduced restrictions on Armenian agricultural exports in the weeks before the vote.  Threats, propaganda, economic blackmail. The full Russian toolkit. Result: irrelevant.

Now, Trump, Tucker Carlson and JD Vance would like you to believe that Russia represents some superior civilisational model. A proud, white, Christian fortress holding the line against the Muslim hordes supposedly swamping Europe. It is a compelling narrative, in the same way that flat earth theory is compelling if you ignore every single fact available to you.

Here is one such fact: between 10 and 15 percent of Russia’s own population is Muslim. Tatars, Bashkirs, Chechens, Ingush, Dagestanis. Millions of them. Russia is, by its own demographic reality, a multi-ethnic, multi-faith state with a larger Muslim population than most of Western Europe. But you’re not supposed to know that. It complicates the story.

Meanwhile, the Muslim share of the EU population sits at around 5 percent. But the Tucker Carlsons of the world need you frightened, so the numbers get quietly shuffled off stage.

So Armenia joins the queue. Behind Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, and every Eastern European country that isn’t currently run by a Slovak who seems to have wandered in from a Moscow focus group. The pattern is not subtle. Every country that has actually experienced Russian influence in practice is sprinting in the opposite direction. The only nation currently moving toward Russia’s orbit is the United States, which managed to elect a man whose foreign policy instincts were apparently shaped by a property developer’s admiration for strongmen with good buildings.

The world watches America and hopes it finds its way back. Most people think it will. Eventually. The damage, however, is already considerable, and democracy, like a soufflé, does not always survive rough handling.

Armenia made its choice. The right one. Obviously.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1