[helge9210]

> drift towards the West

This is a little bit of overstatement.

As a result of mass protests prime minister resigned. Emergent leader of the protests won elections and became prime minister. At some point later after vote of no confidence he won elections again.

It's not drifting to the West, it's changing government by elections, what made Russia to put pressure to Armenia

[dpq]

The vote of no confidence occured already after the war, if I am not mistaken. Or, rather, he resigned to enable new elections and confirm his legitimacy after the military disaster. The bet paid off, mostly because the other main candidate was a Russian-backed ex-president who is almost universally hated for the corruption during his tenure.

I do find that Pashinyan's drift towards France and the U.S. was quite pronounced, by the way.