I think a lot of this is not really under anyone's control; every country -esp those not under a strongman/autocrat, wants Western style benefits and democracy;

I think a lot of this is not really under anyone's control; every country -esp those not under a strongman/autocrat, wants Western style benefits and democracy; if Russia wasn't going to provide it (since their modernization seems to have stalled), then the natural drift was going to be westward. From what I know of Armenia from my colleagues, that same drift is happening there.