Perhaps the taste of management has fallen into their mouths, that’s why they need to manage a little more companies; they are good managers. Opposition Strong Armenia party chairman Samvel Karapetyan told this to reporters on Friday, referring to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s statement that some Russian companies are not working effectively in Armenia.

And regarding the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP) regional transport project, Karapetyan said: “If it succeeds, of course they [i.e. the Armenian authorities] will not succeed, they look at it as a ‘corridor,’ we see it as a ‘road;’ which will be a ‘road.’

But if we leave it to your Pashinyan, there will be a ‘corridor.’ If there are Armenian border guards, Armenia’s customs bodies in that area, it is a ‘road,’ they will go, they will come. Now it's not like that and it won't be like that if we don't help."