Alen Simonyan refuses to comment on whether Russia is undemocratic 

ArmInfo.  Alen Simonyan, the Speaker of the Armenian Parliament, refused to answer whether he considers Russia a non-democratic state during  a parliamentary briefing on February 10, calling the question "inappropriate."

The question was posed following Simonyan's discussion of his recent  meetings in Moscow, when he stated that "what he said to them at the  meetings, what he told journalists, and what was later reported in  the Russian media  were completely different."

"Here, 90% of the journalists are opposition journalists. There, they  are state-run," he said, noting that the media in Armenia and Russia  are incomparable. In response to his remarks, the question was posed:  "Do you consider the Russian Federation undemocratic?"