Official Yerevan neither confirms nor denies the authenticity of a document published by Tigran Petrosian, head of an anti-crisis body affiliated with the Karabakh president, which he said contained proposals made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov regarding Nagorno-Karabakh late last month.
Armenia and Azerbaijan recently traded fire across their shared border, with Azerbaijani shells hitting cities in southern Armenia. For many Armenians, that incursion has been a worrying wake-up call, with the country's political elite no longer certain the country can rely on Russia for support.