{"id":272539,"date":"2026-06-10T14:36:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T10:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=272539"},"modified":"2026-06-10T16:32:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T12:32:03","slug":"zakharova-says-eu-has-turned-blind-eye-to-all-democratic-principles-to-achieve-desired-outcome-in-armenias-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/272539\/","title":{"rendered":"Zakharova says EU has turned blind eye to all democratic principles to achieve desired outcome in Armenia\u2019s elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The European Union has turned a blind eye to all democratic principles in order to achieve a desired outcome in Armenia’s elections, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said during a press briefing on Wednesday, according to TASS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“For the sake of achieving the desired result, Brussels has easily turned a blind eye to everything called democracy, principles, and the rule of law. They have forgotten and discarded their own slogans about non-interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states and about not influencing electoral processes,” the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

Zakharova added that the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) would not tolerate a situation in which Armenia takes a dependent position within the union while simultaneously preparing for European integration.<\/p>\n

“The country’s leadership is trying to convince its citizens that there is currently no need to choose between the EU and the EAEU — this is how the issue is now being framed. They say they can receive all the benefits of Eurasian integration while at the same time preparing to apply for membership in another economic bloc. No, they cannot. We will not tolerate such a dependent position within the EAEU,” Zakharova stated.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The European Union has turned a blind eye to all democratic principles in order to achieve a desired outcome in Armenia’s elections, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said during a press briefing on Wednesday, according to TASS. “For the sake of achieving the desired result, Brussels has easily turned a blind eye to everything […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":272471,"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-272539","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\/272539","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=272539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272540,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272539\/revisions\/272540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}