MoscowArmenia loses voting rights in Russia-led bloc over unpaid dues.
Armenia froze its participation in February 2024, blaming the bloc for no meaningful support.
Neither Russia nor the other members deployed troops to Armenia in 2020, though the bloc’s charter envisages aid.
Members will “keep mum or watch how a bad student is being whipped in class,” said expert Galiya Ibragimova.
Tajikistan takes the chairmanship from Russia next year, TASS reported.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 100+ reports worldwide
- TASS
- frames the summit around Armenia losing voting rights over unpaid dues, the bloc's most concrete internal consequence
- Al Jazeera Online leans critical
- frames the summit as a sign of CSTO decline, citing Armenia's frozen membership and Pashinyan's 'our interest... has run its course'
Sources: TASS, Al Jazeera Online