{"id":232393,"date":"2026-02-05T20:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=232393"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:36:47","slug":"russia-ready-to-send-observers-to-armenias-elections-if-yerevan-invites-matviyenko-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/232393\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia ready to send observers to Armenia\u2019s elections if Yerevan invites, Matviyenko says"},"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>Russia is ready to send observers to Armenia&rsquo;s parliamentary elections if Yerevan decides to do so and extends an official invitation, Russian Federation Council Chairperson Valentina Matviyenko said during a meeting with Armenian National Assembly Speaker Alen Simonyan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interfax.ru\/world\/1071301\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interfax<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I believe our parliamentary dialogue will continue, as it is in the interests of both states and in the interests of our peoples,&rdquo; Matviyenko said.<\/p>\n<p>She also pointed to the high level of trade and economic cooperation between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;About 33% of Armenia&rsquo;s foreign trade turnover is with Russia. Over these years, Russian business has invested more than $4 billion in Armenia across 40 projects. This shows that we have ambitious plans for further development,&rdquo; Matviyenko noted.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is ready to send observers to Armenia&rsquo;s parliamentary elections if Yerevan decides to do so and extends an official invitation, Russian Federation Council Chairperson Valentina Matviyenko said during a meeting with Armenian National Assembly Speaker Alen Simonyan, Interfax reports. &ldquo;I believe our parliamentary dialogue will continue, as it is in the interests of both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":232222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,47,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-society","category-economy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232393","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=232393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232394,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232393\/revisions\/232394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}