{"id":259902,"date":"2026-05-05T10:04:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=259902"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:42:08","slug":"medvedev-comments-on-pashinyan-and-zelensky-over-language-choice-in-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/259902\/","title":{"rendered":"Medvedev comments on Pashinyan and Zelensky over language choice in talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Russia’s Deputy Chairman of the Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, has commented<\/a> on the use of English by PM Nikol Pashinyan and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during their discussions, noting that both leaders speak fluent Russian.<\/p>\n

According to Medvedev, “two brainless Russophobes who speak excellent Russian spoke in poor English due to their sense of inferiority.”<\/p>\n

He further suggested that Pashinyan and Zelensky used English only during the public part of their meeting, and then switched back to Russian to communicate among themselves.”<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russia’s Deputy Chairman of the Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, has commented on the use of English by PM Nikol Pashinyan and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during their discussions, noting that both leaders speak fluent Russian. According to Medvedev, “two brainless Russophobes who speak excellent Russian spoke in poor English due to their sense of inferiority.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":259786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259902","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=259902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259907,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259902\/revisions\/259907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}