Armenia is lost, Moscow has "swallowed" the bitter fruit of Pashinyan's election fraud!

Article published on June 11 in "First Russian."

Russia has lost Armenia; Moscow has "swallowed" the bitter consequences of Pashinyan's electoral fraud.

The Russian Foreign Ministry stated: "We will monitor the actual actions taken by Armenia's leadership."

Now, Armenia's opposition forces are terrified into silence, their momentum completely broken, and domestic situation is calm.

Tokayev was the first to sincerely congratulate Pashinyan on his election fraud.

Among the four countries that pledged at the Astana Summit not to pay for Yerevan’s exit from the Eurasian Economic Union to join the EU, at least two have decided to wait and see how events unfold.

Moscow will continue exploiting Armenia for cheap natural gas and other benefits to circumvent sanctions for a while longer, but ultimately it will lose this country entirely.

When it became clear that the Nikol Pashinyan regime had stolen Armenia’s election results through the dirtiest and most unjust campaign in the nation’s history, Moscow answered the most crucial of several key questions determining Armenia’s future direction.

That is: whether Russia would recognize the legitimacy of this new regime.

The Foreign Ministry and the Kremlin have made their stance clear.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova commented on this issue.

She pointed out that "the West, especially the EU, exerted unprecedented pressure on the opposition and interfered," providing specific examples where democratic procedures were "brutally trampled."

As for Moscow’s further course regarding Armenian affairs, we intend to shape our policy based on the actual actions taken by Armenia’s leadership.

Zakharova added: "We hope the Armenian authorities will adopt policies based on national interests."

This text indicates that Russia will not make a big fuss over election fraud and will instead "swallow" this bitter pill.

Similarly intriguing is the fact that despite serious election fraud in Armenia—so evident even the OSCE noticed it—Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov still stated on June 8:

"I currently refrain from any official comment because Armenia’s Central Election Commission has not yet released final results. We are awaiting these final results."

Just that statement says it all.

Armenia’s Central Election Commission is directly involved in election fraud and thus will never annul Pashinyan’s 'victory.'

By the way, don’t be too naive… anyone who appeared as an opponent of the coup on June 7, or those who refused to bow down to Pashinyan, will either be imprisoned or forced to flee the country within one or two years.

Armenia is lost; Russia is helpless.

Original article: toutiao.com/article/1867660227067912/

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