{"id":312879,"date":"2026-11-13T09:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T05:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=312879"},"modified":"2026-11-13T11:00:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T07:00:56","slug":"russian-mp-pashinyans-groundless-accusations-resemble-a-carefully-staged-performance-orchestrated-by-western-backers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/312879\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian MP: Pashinyan\u2019s groundless accusations resemble a carefully staged performance orchestrated by Western backers"},"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>Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is seeking grounds to withdraw the country from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and sever its alliance with Russia. This view was expressed by Russian State Duma MP Alena Arshinova, <a href=\"https:\/\/iz.ru\/2200912\/2026-11-13\/v-gosdume-obvinili-pashiniana-v-stremlenii-vyvesti-armeniiu-iz-odkb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Izvestia<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Pashinyan&rsquo;s unfounded accusations against the CSTO look less like an effort to defend Armenia&rsquo;s national interests and more like a carefully staged performance orchestrated by his Western backers. Pashinyan is looking for an excuse to pull Armenia out of the CSTO and break its alliance with Russia,&rdquo; Arshinova said.<\/p>\n<p>Arshinova believes that the organization&rsquo;s collective security framework serves as a deterrent to the military ambitions of other powers in the Caucasus.<\/p>\n<p>According to the lawmaker, Armenia&rsquo;s withdrawal from the CSTO could have serious consequences for the country.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is seeking grounds to withdraw the country from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and sever its alliance with Russia. This view was expressed by Russian State Duma MP Alena Arshinova, Izvestia reports. &ldquo;Pashinyan&rsquo;s unfounded accusations against the CSTO look less like an effort to defend Armenia&rsquo;s national interests and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":312857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312879","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=312879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312880,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312879\/revisions\/312880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}