This television maniac believes that he has the right to say obscene words to the head of the country, to call on the people of Armenia to take political action against the legally elected government, to play with emotions, to spread all this cheap nonsense, wrapping it in a senseless game, and at the same time to hope that it is enough to simply say: “This is not interference in internal affairs, and that's it?" Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia, Alen Simonyan, wrote this on Facebook—and regarding the recent statements by renowned Russian journalist Vladimir Solovyov.

“This is a direct interference in the internal affairs of the Republic of Armenia, a deliberate spread of hatred and insults towards its leadership and people.

Such actions on the [Russian] state TV channel cause serious damage to the relations between our [two] countries and only cause deep disgust among the population of Armenia.

I hope that my Russian colleagues, with whom we have discussed similar incidents many times, will react, and the Armenian society will hear a clear apology on the same [Russian TV] channel, in the same luxurious, ‘artistic’ style,” added Simonyan.

Russian journalist Vladimir Solovyov has expressed support for Russian Armenian businessman and philanthropist Samvel Karapetyan, who, according to him, is being subjected to unprecedented pressure from “a corrupt, disgusting, [Armenian] government representing nothingness, which has betrayed the history of Armenia, which has handed over Artsakh [(Nagorno-Karabakh)], which has betrayed everything sacred in the history of the Armenian people.”

Also, Solovyov has accused the incumbent Armenian authorities of attacking the Armenian Apostolic Church, destroying the Armenian coat of arms, “betraying the memory of the most terrible tragedy in the history of the Armenian people, handing over Artsakh where Armenians lived until ending up in [Armenia’s capital] Yerevan.”

“Do the people of Armenia still have any stake in the fate of Armenia? Or will they soon suffer the same fate as Artsakh?” Solovyov added.