{"id":257283,"date":"2026-04-24T17:02:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=257283"},"modified":"2026-04-24T17:14:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:14:45","slug":"zakharova-says-eu-wants-to-influence-outcome-of-armenias-upcoming-parliamentary-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/257283\/","title":{"rendered":"Zakharova says EU wants to influence outcome of Armenia\u2019s upcoming parliamentary elections"},"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 Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced that the EU Mission in Armenia will try to influence the results of the parliamentary elections, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20260424\/zakharova-2088737792.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RIA Novosti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Under the pretext of monitoring illegal financial flows and combating cyberattacks, information manipulation, and information interference by third countries, the EU will attempt to interfere in Armenia&rsquo;s internal affairs,&rdquo; Zakharova said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We know the European Union well, and we understand that this cannot be ruled out under any circumstances. They would like to, and do want to, influence the outcome of the June 7 parliamentary elections.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced that the EU Mission in Armenia will try to influence the results of the parliamentary elections, according to RIA Novosti. &ldquo;Under the pretext of monitoring illegal financial flows and combating cyberattacks, information manipulation, and information interference by third countries, the EU will attempt to interfere in Armenia&rsquo;s internal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":49737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-elections-en","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257283","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=257283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257284,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257283\/revisions\/257284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}