{"id":240378,"date":"2026-03-04T15:07:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=240378"},"modified":"2026-03-04T15:38:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:38:37","slug":"eu-involvement-during-pre-election-period-unlikely-to-strengthen-armenias-autonomy-zakharova-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/240378\/","title":{"rendered":"EU involvement during pre-election period unlikely to strengthen Armenia\u2019s autonomy, Zakharova 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>Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated that the EU&rsquo;s deployment of a rapid response team to Armenia to counter hybrid warfare is a reproduction of the Moldovan scenario applied to Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As the experience of other countries shows, deep involvement of EU experts during a pre-election period, as well as in the context of a potential constitutional referendum, is unlikely to strengthen Armenia&rsquo;s autonomy. Most likely, the opposite will happen,&rdquo; Zakharova said.<\/p>\n<p>She added that, if invited by Armenia, Russia is ready to send similar teams with comparable tasks. She also noted that the CIS &mdash; of which Armenia is a member &mdash; has all the necessary authority to oversee electoral processes.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated that the EU&rsquo;s deployment of a rapid response team to Armenia to counter hybrid warfare is a reproduction of the Moldovan scenario applied to Armenia. &ldquo;As the experience of other countries shows, deep involvement of EU experts during a pre-election period, as well as in the context of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":240356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240378","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=240378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240379,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240378\/revisions\/240379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}