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1News (24 September 2026)

The European Union's interest in developing relations with Armenia is deliberately ostentatious, and its goal is to harm Russia and to advance its own geopolitical objectives, Vladislav Maslennikov, director of the Department of European Problems at Russia's Foreign Ministry and Russia's senior official at the Arctic Council, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

"Yerevan's course, given the fundamental incompatibility of EU legislation and EAEU law, cannot but raise questions for us. Just like the deliberately ostentatious interest of the European Union in developing relations with Armenia," Maslennikov said.

He emphasized that, taking into account the openly anti-Russian policy of the European Union, which is increasingly turning into an agreement-incapable and aggressively minded military-political bloc, one should not harbor illusions about its true intentions.

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