The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the accusations brought against Russians abroad have little to do with reality. Referring to the situation of arrests of Russian citizens in Armenia due to foreign requests, she noted that last year Moscow offered its Armenian partners a legal option to solve the problem by signing a special bilateral agreement, but there is still no response.
According to Zakharova, the project submitted to Yerevan for consideration also took into account the wishes of the Armenian side, but Moscow never received a substantive response.
"Russian citizens should not become hostages of the political situation. Therefore, we will continue to keep this conspiracy under special control and will make every effort to release them."
– emphasized the diplomat.
Earlier, in a telephone conversation between the head of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, Valentina Matvinko, and the chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia, Ruben Rubinyan, it was said that the Russians could be warned against visiting the republic if the arrests continued.