ITALY PERSPECTIVE

Rome, June 7. Italy publishes substantial coverage of both votes, with singular Mediterranean and Balkan sensitivity. La Repubblica headlines from Yerevan: 'In Armenia, where today at the ballots the game is played between Russia and Europe.' The analysis notes that Moscow uses its 'traditional toolbox of economic pressure and disinformation' and evokes the 'specter of Ukraine as warning.' Exit polls published by the civic.am portal — a government-friendly outlet — credit Pashinyan's Civil Contract with 56.7% and Russian-Armenian oligarch Samvel Karapetyan's Armenia Forte at 17.5%. Libero Quotidiano publishes a video of Pashinyan's vote in Yerevan — official imagery. On Kosovo, ANSA keeps the score: 'Kurti wins in Kosovo, but without absolute majority.' Vetevendosje drops from 51% in December to 43.2% with most ballots counted, and turnout falls to 33% — one voter in three. ANSA cautiously warns that forming a new government 'will be difficult.' For Rome, these two votes share a meaning: democratic fatigue is hitting two countries that were supposed to embody the European post-Maidan dynamic, and the EU has failed to accelerate their integrations. The Italian press, marked by its own experience of governmental instability, reads Pristina without condescension: fragmentation is our specialty. Italian coverage doesn't analyze the subject, it embodies it.