The Hraparak daily of the Republic of Armenia (RA) writes as follows, in particular: Along with the deterioration of Russian-Azerbaijani relations, the RA authorities have also started working—they are ruining relations with Russia on a daily basis. This behavior is unacceptable even for the "veterans" of the ruling team, who understand where opposing the RF will lead.

The other day, [Armenian FM] Ararat Mirzoyan had refused to go to the session of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers, receiving the head of EU diplomacy, Kaja Kallas. And at a joint press conference [with her in Yerevan], he accused [Russian FM Sergey] Lavrov of "interfering in the internal affairs of the RA," while the latter only had stated that the CSTO Foreign Ministers have expressed serious concern about what is happening in the RA. "This is an internal matter of our neighbors, but, of course, the attacks on the thousand-year-old Armenian Apostolic Church are a cause for serious concern. The Church has traditionally always been one of the pillars of Armenian society, and we would really not want this Church to be subjected to attacks, essentially, without any serious basis.”

Meanwhile, when [French President Emmanuel] Macron supported the illegal detentions [in Armenia], not a word was said [by Armenian authorities] about such “interference.”