Who will buy Armenia’s apricots?

Armenia goes to the polls on Sunday with just one of two outcomes expected – returning to Russia’s embrace and remaining hostage to Kremlin’s power-broking whims in the Caucuses, or edging closer to the West and the European Union, with all the social and economic benefits that this entails, but with no military or political guarantees in a highly volatile region.

No matter who wins the parliamentary elections, the next Prime Minister has to deal with an existential issue, that has tormented...