ArmInfo. The meeting of Armenian and Russian parliamentarians in Yerevan was marked by a scandal – Nikolai Ryzhkov, a member of the Council of Federations of the Federal Assembly of Russia, called the opposition leader, MP Nikol Pashinyan “stupid”.
Ryzhkov also said that Pashinyan’s movement is no different from the Ukrainian “Maidan.” The deputy from the Tsaroukyan bloc Naira Zohrabyan, who tried to explain to the Russian parliamentarian that Pashinyan’s protests do not have a geopolitical trace, contradicted this. “This is an exclusively national movement,” Zohrabyan said.
This was extremely disliked by the Republican Party deputies, who liked Ryzhkov’s speech. The RPA …read more
Source: Arminfo
