{"id":257062,"date":"2026-04-24T11:21:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=257062"},"modified":"2026-04-24T11:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:44:00","slug":"russias-state-duma-member-says-all-of-pashinyans-decisions-depend-on-how-elections-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/257062\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s State Duma member says all of Pashinyan\u2019s decisions depend on how elections go"},"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>Armenia will choose a Western path of development if Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wins the parliamentary elections, Viktor Vodolatsky, First Deputy Chairman of Russia&rsquo;s State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration, and Relations with Compatriots, told <a href=\"https:\/\/lenta.ru\/news\/2026\/04\/23\/v-rossii-zayavili-o-povtoryayuschey-put-ukrainy-strane-sng\/?utm_source=yxnews&amp;utm_medium=desktop&amp;utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fdzen.ru%2Fnews%2Finstory%2F8a9438b0-b028-5600-a66a-cfccffaa8db2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lenta.ru<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Armenia is following a path chosen by Ukraine and other countries that serve European interests.<\/p>\n<p>Vodolatsky said Pashinyan is waiting for the elections.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;All his decisions depend on how the elections go&mdash;his withdrawal from the CSTO, the suspension of work in the CIS, and many other issues he will pursue if his party wins,&rdquo; Vodolatsky stated.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia will choose a Western path of development if Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wins the parliamentary elections, Viktor Vodolatsky, First Deputy Chairman of Russia&rsquo;s State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration, and Relations with Compatriots, told Lenta.ru. According to him, Armenia is following a path chosen by Ukraine and other countries that serve European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":257057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257062","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=257062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257063,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257062\/revisions\/257063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}