{"id":309650,"date":"2026-11-02T09:47:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T05:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=309650"},"modified":"2026-11-02T09:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T05:52:09","slug":"russian-foreign-ministry-denies-russia-has-not-refused-to-accept-armenias-new-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/309650\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Foreign Ministry denies: Russia has not refused to accept Armenia&#8217;s new Ambassador"},"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 Russian Foreign Ministry has refuted earlier media reports claiming that Moscow allegedly refused to approve the candidacy of Samvel Mkrtchyan for the post of Armenian Ambassador to Russia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.ru\/politics\/01\/11\/2026\/6ae7239e9532a8518b515634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RBC<\/a> reports, citing the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier media outlets suggested that the reason might be the diplomat&rsquo;s previous work in European countries. Mkrtchyan was appointed Armenia&rsquo;s ambassador to Poland in November 2018, having previously headed the Armenian diplomatic mission in Lebanon. He also previously represented Yerevan in NATO and headed the European department of the Armenian Foreign Ministry. In the spring of 2025, he hosted an EU expert mission as part of the visa policy dialogue.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Foreign Ministry has refuted earlier media reports claiming that Moscow allegedly refused to approve the candidacy of Samvel Mkrtchyan for the post of Armenian Ambassador to Russia, RBC reports, citing the ministry. Earlier media outlets suggested that the reason might be the diplomat&rsquo;s previous work in European countries. Mkrtchyan was appointed Armenia&rsquo;s ambassador [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":162098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309650","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309651,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309650\/revisions\/309651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}