{"id":270351,"date":"2026-06-05T13:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=270351"},"modified":"2026-06-05T16:28:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:28:31","slug":"peskov-says-armenias-leadership-artificially-forcing-country-to-choose-between-eaeu-and-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/270351\/","title":{"rendered":"Peskov says Armenia\u2019s leadership artificially forcing country to choose between EAEU and EU"},"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 is convinced that the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) is more beneficial for Armenia than a European path, Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20260605\/peskov-2097014902.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is more beneficial for Armenians; they earn more money through the EAEU, have a better future with the EAEU, and develop faster with the EAEU. This will not happen with Europe,&rdquo; Peskov said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Armenia&rsquo;s leadership is trying to artificially force the country to choose between the EAEU and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Peskov also noted that Armenia has not been involved in the activities of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) for a long time, RIA Novosti reports.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is convinced that the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) is more beneficial for Armenia than a European path, Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has said. &ldquo;It is more beneficial for Armenians; they earn more money through the EAEU, have a better future with the EAEU, and develop faster with the EAEU. This will not happen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":270236,"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-270351","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\/270351","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=270351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270352,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270351\/revisions\/270352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}