The 2.2 million tons of wheat, barley, soybeans, flax and sunflower seeds sent to China last year represents a huge surge from the 615,000 tons delivered in 2022.
Amidst strained relations between Armenia and Russia, Russia's state atomic energy company will modernize Armenia's nuclear power plant and presumably build a new unit.
Whether the Armenian diamond-cutting industry is hurt or helped by the likely sanctions will depend on the EU's ability to trace the gems' origin to Russia.