Just days after Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan reaffirmed an intention to reduce the country’s dependence on Russian natural gas imports, Russia’s provider, Gazprom Armenia, has taken the seemingly punitive step of announcing a prolonged cutoff of supplies. Pashinyan told journalists on September 11 that Armenia is actively pursuing alternate sources of gas amid deepening tension in Armenian-Russian relations. Russia provided roughly 82 percent of Armenia’s overall gas imports in 2025. Just three days after…