{"id":208386,"date":"2025-11-12T12:45:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=208386"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T09:38:06","slug":"russias-foreign-intelligence-service-says-armenia-seeks-to-break-away-from-moscow-for-political-reasons-and-buy-more-expensive-ukrainian-wheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/208386\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Foreign Intelligence Service says Armenia seeks to \u2018break away\u2019 from Moscow for political reasons and buy more expensive Ukrainian wheat"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>According to Russia&rsquo;s Foreign Intelligence Service press office, Armenia is politically motivated to &ldquo;separate&rdquo; from Moscow and assist Ukraine by purchasing part of Kyiv&rsquo;s wheat at higher prices, with the extra cost allegedly covered by European Union funds, <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20251112\/armeniya-2054418324.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RIA Novosti<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For years, Armenia has purchased wheat from Russia. Now, for political reasons, the Armenians &lsquo;want to break away&rsquo; from Moscow and support Ukraine by buying part of the wheat they need from an &lsquo;independent&rsquo; country,&rdquo; Russia&rsquo;s Foreign Intelligence Service stated.<\/p>\n<p>The report notes that Ukrainian wheat is about one and a half times more expensive than the Russian one.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Brussels is being asked to compensate for the excess cost of Ukrainian wheat,&rdquo; the press office added.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Russia&rsquo;s Foreign Intelligence Service press office, Armenia is politically motivated to &ldquo;separate&rdquo; from Moscow and assist Ukraine by purchasing part of Kyiv&rsquo;s wheat at higher prices, with the extra cost allegedly covered by European Union funds, RIA Novosti reports. &ldquo;For years, Armenia has purchased wheat from Russia. Now, for political reasons, the Armenians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":208351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,101,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-economy","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208387,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208386\/revisions\/208387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}