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Russia’s diesel ban reveals Armenia’s energy security dilemma


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Russia’s diesel export ban, announced by Deputy PM Novak, eliminates the source of 83% of Armenia’s diesel imports overnight. With Iran under sanctions and European alternatives too expensive to scale, Yerevan is staring at its most acute energy vulnerability since independence, and the country best positioned to fill the gap is the one it was at war with four years ago.