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During a Q&A at the World Youth Festival in Sirius, in Russia’s Krasnodar region, Margarita Simonyan criticized Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. He has suspended Yerevan’s participation in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), which is considered Russia’s equivalent to NATO.
Simonyan is the editor-in-chief of the Kremlin mouthpiece RT. As an ally of Vladimir Putin and a regular guest on state television, she pushes the Russian leader’s rhetoric about his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
“Armenia’s youth must understand that Pashinyan is a traitor to the Armenian people and is leading Armenia to complete destruction if he remains in power,” said Simonyan on Monday, to applause from the audience.
Simonyan, who is of Armenian descent and has described herself as both Russian and Armenian, said that, if voters continued to support Pashinyan, “there will be no Armenia in five years—just as there is no longer any Karabakh in the form in which the Armenians needed it,” Simonyan said. “Armenia will not exist at all, you will see.”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Kremlin propagandist Margarita Simonyan has said Armenia’s spat with Russia over a Moscow-led security bloc could see the South Caucasus country no longer exist within half-a-decade.
The editor-in-chief of the Kremlin mouthpiece RT is an ally of Vladimir Putin and a regular guest on state television where she pushes the Russian leader’s rhetoric about his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
During a Q&A at the World Youth Festival in Sirius, in Russia’s Krasnodar region, Simonyan criticized Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
Last month, Pashninyan said that the CSTO had failed Armenia, freezing its participation in the bloc because Russia could no longer be relied upon as a reliable defense partner.
Olesya Vartanyan, the International Crisis Group’s (ICG) senior analyst for the South Caucasus region, told Newsweek last month that Yerevan freezing CSTO participation has been an issue for the last couple of years.
While the video, which as of Tuesday had received more than 336,000 views, did not show Simonyan saying that Russia would invade the country, Armenia’s economic and military reliance on Moscow could make it vulnerable.
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