Poland Seeks to Involve Armenia in a Neo-Promethean Movement Against Russia, Makarov Says

Paul Goble

            Staunton, Mar. 4 – Russian nationalist commentator Vladislav Makarov says that Poland is seeking to involve Armenia in Warsaw’s effort to revive the Promethean Movement of the interwar period in order to set the countries around Russia’s periphery against Moscow and that Armenia under Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is receptive to that idea.

            Makarov’s attack on Poland and Armenia is the latest in a string of such attacks on all neighbors of the Russian Federation and non-Russian groups within that country who were involved with the Promethean League between the wars and who have expressed various degrees of interest in that history and its potential revival.

            (For Makarov’s article, see ritmeurasia.ru/news--2026-03-04--polskij-prometej-durachit-armeniju-86222; for background on the interwar Promethean movement, its recent revival, and Moscow’s alarm at that  development, see jamestown.org/moscow-alarmed-by-revival-and-spread-of-promethean-ideas/ and the works cited therein.)

            What makes this linkage noteworthy is that Armenians in the 1920s and 1930s were far less involved with the Promethean movement and so bringing up the role of the Armenian National Center in Paris which did cooperate with Warsaw is a clear signal that present-day Moscow is becoming ever more hostile to the current Yerevan government.

            Indeed, Makarov says that Armenia, having suspended but not ended its membership in the Moscow-led Organization for the Collective Security Treaty, is now cooperating with what the Moscow commentator suggests is a NATO structure, something he argues is indefensible and both offensive to Russia and dangerous for Armenia’s future.