Russian State Duma warns about harm of Armenia’s distance from Russia

Deputy Speaker of the Russian State Duma Pyotr Tolstoy warned about the harm of Armenia’s distance from Russia, reports RIA Novosti.

“2,500 non-governmental organizations at the US Embassy, the largest representative office of the USA on the territory of the former USSR, grants, money, and indoctrination of the Armenian youth and the Armenian public that Armenia can live without Russia,” Tolstoy said at the opening of the first public forum “Russia-Armenia”, referring to Armenia’s distance from Russia.

The MP called on Armenia not to repeat the mistakes of post-Soviet countries, which tried to get everything they could get from Russia and at the same time get everything from Europe.

“When the last war was going on in Karabakh, in my office literally every week there were members of the Armenian parliament who said, ‘Please call, say, do something, reach out to the President of Russia, stop the war! Our boys are dying; (they – ed.) are brought in coffins from the front.’ And today, these MPs are no longer there—no one. Let me remind you that it was (Russian President Vladimir) Putin who stopped the bloody war then,” Tolstoy stressed.