The EVN Café is a fancy cocktail bar on Abovyan Street in Yerevan that caters mainly to tourists. With its elaborate drinks and decorative  interior, the venue is an attractive destination for anyone in the Armenian capital looking to splurge on a night out. Diplomats may also know that just a short walk away sits the Blue Mosque, the epicenter of Iranian diplomacy in the Caucasus (IO, 12/04/24). However, when this correspondent visited on a reporting trip in 2023, it was a Russian visitor, not an