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Good stuff from @cjcmichel. Armenia's election flew under the radar here, but it was no small thing given what Moscow put into making it go the other way. "Other countries in Russia’s “near abroad” are charting their own paths. In Moldova, the Russian-occupied region of Transnistria is suffering economic collapse and growing more supportive of reintegration with the rest of the country. In Armenia, the national government is moving along a pro-Western path, recently hosting its first bilateral summit with the European Union. Even after Mr. Putin threatened Yerevan with a 'Ukrainian scenario,' the government there didn’t waver—a far cry from the behavior of a Russian vassal." wsj.com/opinion/russia-has-l…