The leader of "Prosperous Armenia" Gagik Tsarukian, who is in a pre-trial detention center, sent a message from there urging him not to leave the EAEU. According to him, leaving the EAEU threatens Armenia with rising prices, economic decline and the closing of thousands of factories. Gagik Kulievich called on Armenia to seek new markets and investments without jeopardizing existing opportunities in the EAEU.