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The US is determined to force Armenia down an anti-Russian path and towards “national suicide,” the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) warned on Thursday, RT reported.

The US State Department is spurring into action “pro-Western structures in the civil society” of the former Soviet republic, seeking to push Armenian political elites “to speed up full reorientation towards the pro-Western format of development,” the Russian agency said in a statement. The methods used by Washington have previously been tested in Ukraine and Moldova, it claimed.

US-affiliated personnel will train Armenian officials in key government agencies and “ensure wide representation of foreign advisers” to guide Yerevan down Washington’s preferred route, the SVR alleged. This will inevitably be antagonistic towards Russia, it warned.

“To achieve the ‘high goal’ of joining the US-led so-called civilized society, the Armenian people… will have to renounce its own traditions, national societal norms, and stable commercial ties” with other countries in the region, the statement said. “Washington is strongly pushing Armenia towards national suicide,” it added.