“Neither friend nor foe”: Russians give Armenia a mixed, ambivalent assessment of relations with Russia

In a survey conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM – rus.), Armenia found itself in a “gray zone”, it is not among the countries seen as clearly friendly to Russia, but nor is it among the openly unfriendly ones.

Russian citizens gave a mixed, ambivalent assessment of relations with Armenia. In the FOM survey, in which respondents were asked which countries Russia has good relations with and which ones bad, 12% of those surveyed rated relations with Armenia as good, while 27% rated them as bad. This means negative assessments were noticeably more common, but positive ones were far from rare either, the country ended up neither in the “friends” camp nor in the “enemies” camp.

Russians believe that among CIS countries, Russia currently has the best relations with Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan, and the worst with Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.

FOM is a Russian non-profit organization engaged in sociological, marketing, and media research, as well as its own research projects.