Russian Foreign Minister warns against politicization of Armenian protests

Russia cautioned on Thursday against any attempt to spark a new “colour revolution” in Armenia by exploiting protests against electricity prices for political ends.

“You know how the ‘colour revolutions’, and the Maidan in Ukraine, started,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a BRICS Youth Summit gathering of young people from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) in Moscow.

“The current developments in Armenia — there is also a temptation among many to use them to whip up anti-government sentiment although the root of these events is purely economic,” Interfax news agency quoted him as saying.

“It seems useful for someone to go further and develop these processes in a political way.”

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS