Russia will have to review the entire range of economic relations with Armenia if the republic joins the EU. This was stated by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk.

“I have read the text of the law that was adopted. It is as follows: for everything good against everything bad, completely general words. But this is an internal matter for Armenia,” the Russian official said.

He reminded again that Armenia will have to choose between the EAEU and the EU, noting that Yerevan is making a positive contribution to Eurasian integration today.

The day before, the Armenian parliament adopted in the second and final reading a bill on the beginning of the process of the country's accession to the European Union. The document states that Armenia “expresses the will of the Armenian people, setting itself the task of making the republic a safe, secure, developed and prosperous country.”

The initiator of the bill is the civil initiative "Platform of Democratic Forces", which managed to collect 60 thousand signatures necessary for submitting it to the deputies for consideration.

Earlier, the government of the country approved the bill. Now, after its approval by the parliament, the question of further accession to the European Union will be put to a referendum.

The Kremlin has repeatedly stated that it sees in the EU's desire to consolidate its influence in Armenia an exclusively geopolitical background, far from the interests of real normalization of relations in the Transcaucasus.