Volodin: Armenia’s exit from the EAEU will lead to an increase in gas prices and the abolition of migration benefits
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- State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said that Armenia’s exit from the EAEU will lead to an almost 4-fold rise in gas prices, the abolition of migration benefits and a reduction in remittances from the Russian Federation.
- He accused Prime Minister Pashinyan of hiding these consequences.
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MOSCOW, June 2 - RIA Novosti. Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan is hiding from citizens what Armenia’s exit from the EAEU will cost, gas for residents will become almost four times more expensive, and migration benefits for entering the Russian Federation will be cancelled, State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin said.
“He is hiding from the citizens of Armenia what the country’s exit from the EAEU will cost, namely: gas will become almost four times more expensive for residents; migration benefits for entering Russia will be canceled, and employment will become possible only with patents,” he wrote in his channel on the Max platform.
Volodin added that upon leaving the EAEU, cross-border money transfers to Armenia from Russia, which today amount to almost $4 billion a year, will be sharply reduced, and supplies of flowers, berries, fruits, vegetables, fish, alcohol and mineral water from Armenia to the Russian Federation will be suspended.
In the spring of 2025, a law was passed in Armenia on the republic’s intention to join the European Union, although the association itself did not offer the country membership. The Prime Minister of Armenia stated that Yerevan is aware of the incompatibility of the republic’s simultaneous membership in the EU and the EAEU, but the country will correlate its agenda with both associations as long as this is possible.
