🇦🇲🇷🇺Armenia - Russia: Armenian apricots caught in a geopolitical battle

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Apricot exports from Armenia's Ararat valley have become entangled in a geopolitical conflict between Russia and the West, with Moscow imposing trade bans on Armenian goods as tensions rose ahead of parliamentary elections.

In Armenia’s Ararat valley, apricots are getting swept into the centre of a geopolitical battle between Russia and the West. Angered at Yerevan's pivot away from Moscow, the Kremlin imposed bans and restrictions on the imports of a wide range of Armenian goods, including fruits, vegetables and flowers, ahead of parliamentary elections last month.