Like all those who meet Vladimir Putin face to face, Nikol Pachinian had to submit to a strict quarantine for nearly a week, before being received in Moscow on Wednesday by the Russian president.
It is an understatement to say that the Armenian Prime Minister arrived at the meeting in a weak position.
Since March 28, he is moreover virtually only an interim Prime Minister.
In an attempt to resolve the deep political crisis in which Armenia has sank since its humiliating defeat to Azerbaijan last fall, Nikol Pashinian announced that he would resign at the end of April to call for early elections scheduled for 20 June.
Having become very unpopular, the one who, brought to power in 2018 by a "velvet revolution", embodied the hope of a renewal, is now struggling to remain at the head of a traumatized country.
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Demonstrations and calls for the departure of the head of government have followed one another.
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