Armenia: 2012 Between the East and the West

The year 2012 was marked by many global political developments that have a definite impact on Armenia’s current political and economic reality. Such important events as presidential elections in the Minsk group co-chairing states, parliamentary elections in Georgia, the development of nuclear programmes and the threat of war in Iran, the war in Syria, the law in French Senate which was criminalizing the denial of Genocide, extradition of the Azerbaijani assassin Ramil Safarov, the negotiations on DCFTA, have each changed the political agenda in Armenia.