In an analysis by Vladimir Socor in the Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor entitled, “The End of ‘Complementarity’ in Armenia’s Foreign Policy,” Armenia’s recent decision to join the Customs Union was criticized for “repudiating the European Union’s offer to conclude association and trade agreements with Armenia—an offer that the United States had also encouraged Yerevan to embrace. Instead, Armenia’s decision in favor of Russia’s economic bloc, compounding Yerevan’s military alliance with Moscow, brings the process of Russia’s satellization of Armenia close to completion.” The analysis went on to cite RSC, stating that “as described by the prominent analyst Richard Giragosian (a rare critic in Yerevan of the September 3 decision), the “complementarity” principle supposedly combined reliance on Russia to protect Armenia militarily with reliance on the West to promote Armenia’s economic development.”
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