Marukyan: The Armenian government is trying to normalize relations  with Russia on one hand, while also labeling it as a criminal on the  other

ArmInfo. The Armenian government is trying to normalize relations with Russia on one hand,  while on the other hand they are calling Russia a criminal. Edmon  Marukyan, the chairman of the Enlightened Armenia party and former   adviser to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, wrote this.

The politician recalled that the Speaker of the Armenian parliament,  Alen Simonyan, had invited the Speaker of the Federation Council of  the Russian parliament, Valentina Matviyenko, to Yerevan, and the  latter accepted the invitation. Marukyan noted that the Speaker of  the parliament of any state cannot make an official visit to any  country without an invitation. "And when the official statement about  the visit was published, the Prime Minister's media outlet  interviewed an expert who initially suggested that giving new impetus  to Armenian-Russian relations meant giving new impetus to the crimes  committed against the Armenian people, in which Russia took part. And  then the same expert later noted: "November 9 (2020 - ed.) is the  capitulation of Armenia." In other words, the pro-government expert  echoed the "capitulatory" formulation used by the third President of  Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, a sentiment that Armenian Prime Minister  Nikol Pashinyan has repeatedly opposed. Thus, the government is  trying to normalize relations with Russia with one hand, and on the  other hand calls Russia a criminal," the politician noted.

In this vein, he questioned the motives behind  such a policy by the  authorities and how long the people will have to endure the  consequences "Do you want to normalize relations and have  interdepartmental contacts? Then do it normally, without "underhanded  games". And if you don't want to, you consider them criminals, then  why are you inviting them? These visits, departures won't help, there  is a crisis in relations anyway. And the most absurd thing is, since  when was it decided that the Armenian parliament can call a document  signed by the prime minister a capitulation, as Aliyev said in  Munich? "Maybe something has changed...",  Marukyan concluded.   Previously, it was announced that preparations were made for  Valentina Matviyenko's visit to Armenia.  But, so far, no specific  dates have been named.