Alen Simonyan Calls for Response to Solovyov's Statements

This television personality believes he has the right to use inappropriate language towards the country's leader and to call the people of Armenia to political actions against a legally elected government, playing with emotions and spreading this entire cheap nonsense while hoping to get away with merely stating, 'This is not interference in internal affairs,' and that’s it.

Alen Simonyan, the Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia, wrote this on his Facebook page. This is a direct interference in the internal affairs of the Republic of Armenia, a deliberate spreading of hatred and insults towards its leadership and people.

Such actions on state television seriously damage the relationships between our countries and only evoke deep disgust among the Armenian population. I hope my Russian colleagues, with whom I have often discussed similar incidents, will respond and that Armenian society will hear a clear apology in the same extravagant, 'artistic' style,” Simonyan wrote.

It is noteworthy that Russian journalist Vladimir Solovyov expressed support for Samvel Karapetyan, whom he claims is under unprecedented pressure from a 'bought-out, disgusting government that represents nothing, which has betrayed Armenia’s history, surrendered Artsakh, and betrayed the most sacred thing in the history of the Armenian people.'

Solovyov accused the Armenian authorities of attacking the church, destroying the Armenian emblem, betraying the memory of the most terrible tragedy in Armenian history, and surrendering Artsakh, where Armenians have lived since before arriving in Yerevan.

'Does the Armenian people still have any say in the fate of Armenia? Or will they soon suffer the same fate as that of Artsakh?' Solovyov remarked.