Replacing supplies from Armenia will not create difficulties for Russia, Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov said, TASS reports.

“However, if we evaluate these supplies from the point of view of the economic impact on the markets of other [Eurasian Economic] Union [(EAEU)] countries, their significance cannot be considered significant. Armenia’s share in Russia’s gross trade with the world does not exceed 0.9 percent. For other EAEU countries, this figure is even lower—for Belarus – 0.3 percent, for Kazakhstan – 0.05 percent, for Kyrgyzstan – 0.02 percent.

It will not be difficult for us [i.e. Russia] to replace Armenian supplies,” Reshetnikov told reporters, commenting on Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s statement that Armenia was looking for an alternative to relations with Russia not only in economic but also in political terms.