{"id":232286,"date":"2026-02-06T10:40:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=232286"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:16:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:16:56","slug":"russias-ambassador-in-armenia-questions-whether-eu-can-match-eaeus-economic-benefits-for-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/232286\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s ambassador in Armenia questions whether EU can match EAEU\u2019s economic benefits for Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Russia&rsquo;s ambassador to Armenia, Sergey Kopirkin, spoke about the benefits Armenia has received as a member of the EAEU. However, he expressed doubt that the EU could guarantee the same level of economic growth for the country.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;During the years when Armenia has been a full member of the EAEU, its GDP has increased 2.5 times. According to statistics, in the first ten months of last year, Armenia&rsquo;s total exports amounted to $6.4 billion, of which $2.6 billion went to EAEU countries, mainly to Russia. Russia alone accounts for 37% of Armenia&rsquo;s exports. The benefits of Armenia&rsquo;s participation in the EAEU are obvious, but whether the EU can guarantee the same level of economic and social development is a big question,&rdquo; the Russian diplomat said in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/ekonomika\/26366239https:\/\/ru.apa.az\/aziya\/prezident-turcii-napryazyonnost-mezdu-ssa-i-iranom-vozrosla-my-ne-xotim-novoi-voiny-v-regione-634925\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rossiya-24<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&rsquo;s ambassador to Armenia, Sergey Kopirkin, spoke about the benefits Armenia has received as a member of the EAEU. However, he expressed doubt that the EU could guarantee the same level of economic growth for the country. &ldquo;During the years when Armenia has been a full member of the EAEU, its GDP has increased 2.5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":232273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-economy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232287,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232286\/revisions\/232287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}