{"id":261786,"date":"2026-05-12T10:33:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=261786"},"modified":"2026-05-12T10:55:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:55:41","slug":"russias-embassy-in-uk-dismisses-claims-of-alleged-russian-interference-in-armenias-elections-as-absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/261786\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s embassy in UK dismisses claims of alleged Russian interference in Armenia\u2019s elections as \u2018absurd\u2019"},"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>The Embassy of Russia in the United Kingdom has described the British government&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/politika\/27374739\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claims<\/a> about Russia&rsquo;s alleged interference in elections in Armenia as &ldquo;absurd,&rdquo; according to a statement released by the diplomatic mission.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The British accusations regarding interference in Armenia&rsquo;s elections appear even more absurd against the backdrop of the Western European frenzy in Yerevan. London&rsquo;s neo-colonial policy, which previously contributed to the coup d&rsquo;&eacute;tat in Kyiv, is now also directed at Armenia,&rdquo; the embassy said.<\/p>\n<p>The diplomatic mission added that &ldquo;it is time for the West to stop interfering in the affairs of sovereign states, as it recently did in Moldova and Romania.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Embassy of Russia in the United Kingdom has described the British government&rsquo;s claims about Russia&rsquo;s alleged interference in elections in Armenia as &ldquo;absurd,&rdquo; according to a statement released by the diplomatic mission. &ldquo;The British accusations regarding interference in Armenia&rsquo;s elections appear even more absurd against the backdrop of the Western European frenzy in Yerevan. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":261762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-elections-en","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261786","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=261786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261787,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261786\/revisions\/261787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}