Despite powerful pressure from Russia, Nikol Pashinyan won the parliamentary elections in Armenia - the country made an obvious choice in favor of the West, not the Russian Federation. However, the scale of the Russian failure should not be exaggerated. The pro-Russian parties still got the best result since 2018, and after the victory the Armenian prime minister congratulated Putin on Russia Day and said that he would soon go to visit him. So what will happen next in relations between Russia and Armenia? Independent journalist Alexander Atasuntsev answers this question in an article for the Carnegie Politika project. Meduza publishes this text in full.