Zakharova responded to the Armenian Security Council Secretary`s improvisations on her social media regarding the CSTO

ArmInfo. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova called Armenian Security Council Secretary Alen Simonyan's statements that the CSTO did not respond to Yerevan's requests "a tall tale."

So, "It's actually a quatrain. The last line reads: 'Simonyan made up the tall tale,'" Zakharova told Lenta.ru in response to a request for comment on the Armenian official's publication of a three-line poem criticizing the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

On November 11, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov announced that the heads of state of the CSTO member states had stripped Armenia of its voting rights in the organization. According to him, Yerevan has failed to fulfill its obligations for several years.

In response, Alen Simonyan posted on his Telegram channel: "They deprived us of our voices where everyone was very silent while they were killing us together," and then the following verse: "They deprived us of our voices where everyone was very silent while they were killing us together."

On November 11, the CSTO countries decided to apply Article 25 of the organization's Charter to Armenia, which provides for the deprivation of voting rights and the ability to appoint representatives to positions of responsibility. CSTO Secretary General Taalatbek Masadykov stated that Armenia could restore its participation in the organization after resolving the issue of paying its dues. However, the final decision remains with the republic's leadership. Armenia itself did not participate in the meeting.

As a reminder, Armenia has been boycotting CSTO events since the end of 2022. In February 2024, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that Armenia had effectively frozen its participation in the CSTO, as the organization had failed to fulfill its obligations to Armenia, which would inevitably have consequences. And on September 18, 2024, at the Second World Armenian Summit, Pashinyan stated that the CSTO posed threats to Armenia's security, its continued existence, sovereignty, and statehood.