“There are limits to cynicism”: Zakharova on Pashinyan’s accusations against Moscow

Maria Zakharova, official spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, commented on air on Sputnik radio on the accusations that Moscow has allegedly launched a campaign against RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, calling on listeners to pay attention to his treatment of his own citizens.

“Western media claimed that Russia has launched a campaign allegedly, as it was put there, against Pashinyan,” the diplomat said.

Zakharova called on listeners to pay attention to “the citizens of Armenia at whom Pashinyan was just screaming: the woman who ‘should be grateful’ that, as he put it, her head wasn’t smashed in ‘in the neighboring toilet around the corner’; and this man, my heart truly bleeds, watch that footage, whose grandson was killed, who came to the rally at Pashinyan’s own invitation, asked a question, and was accused of having come there for $550.”

“Are there no limits to the cynicism of pinning this situation on Russia? What does Russia have to do with it?” she added.