Russian foreign office spokesperson blames France for latest  developments in Artsakh 

ArmInfo. Many expectations about Nagorno-Karabakh were associated with the mediation of France  and President Emmanuel Macron personally, Russian Foreign Ministry representative Maria Zakharova recalled in an interview with RT France correspondent Igor Kurashenko.

"Look what this has led to. Paris tried to intercept this mediation  agenda and say that France would be better able to mediate than  anyone else, especially Russia. While Russia performed its functions  as a mediator, there were really good, fundamental grounds for moving  along a peaceful path to a settlement: As soon as Western ideology  began to wedge itself into the situation, everything changed," she  said. 

According to Zakharova, this can serve as a lesson for everyone who  will lean towards the West in its mediation. 

"After all, Paris this time did not even consider it necessary to  find any words in order to somehow explain itself. After all, for at  least the last year, Paris has constantly said that it is the main  mediator, at least from the point of view of official Yerevan,"  Makharova said.