# West using South Caucasus Railway issue to blackmail Armenia — Russian MFA

https://mins.news/en/item/33542

- TASS, 2026-08-26 20:05 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://tass.com/politics/2178069

> The Russian Foreign Ministry told TASS that Western countries are using the South Caucasus Railway as a tool to blackmail Armenia, allegedly demanding that Yerevan remove the “Russian factor” from its transport sector in exchange for promised multimillion-dollar investments. Moscow said this fits efforts to push Russia out of the South Caucasus.