What Good Has Kaia Kallas Done for Armenia and the Armenian People? - Zakharova

If we ask Kaia Kallas to help and assist Moldova, everything will end very badly. Honestly, I don’t even know how it currently ends, unfortunately, as it is happening in Moldova, where people turn against each other. Currently, citizens living in Moldova are pitted against each other, and generations are turned against one another as well. I cannot even imagine what kind of assistance she could provide. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry while commenting on the EU senior diplomat's statement about assisting Armenia in elections.

According to Zakharova, the Russian side remains consistently committed to the principle of non-interference in internal affairs and respect for the sovereignty of other states. “In all negotiations with our Armenian partners, we proceed from this principle, which, unfortunately, cannot be said about certain Western politicians. The so-called head of European diplomacy, Kaia Kallas, is openly offering Armenia the best European practices for organizing elections tested in Moldova. What kind of practices are these? I would like to remind you that the whole world has witnessed political pressure, intimidation, threats, blackmail, and the injection of money before elections in the form of various loans, grants, tranches, and so on. This has nothing to do with real democracy.

Furthermore, returning to the beginning of your question, all this was not aimed at uniting society nor at serving the interests of the Armenian people, but at turning people against each other—citizens of one country, their love for their country, who wish to live, first and foremost, in peace within their country and, of course, in peace with their neighbors. This has no relation to real democracy. These are anti-democratic mechanisms. And we must consider whether the threats come from there, from Kaia Kallas, from her surroundings, and from the institutions they represent. I think the answer is obvious. They come from there,” said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

He then asked, “What good has Kaia Kallas and the European Commission done for Armenia and the Armenian people?” “You can list them. You can just take a piece of paper and write down how many factories have been built, how many major tourist attractions have been created, how many hospitals have been built, how many emergencies have been overcome, how many man-made disasters have been prevented. There should be certain statistics. On what basis do they listen to this person—Kaia Kallas—who teaches people not to communicate with Russia and incites them on this, so to speak, Russophobic theme? On what basis? What good has she done? We need to understand this. If she has genuinely done something good, that’s another question. But maybe we should immediately create a second column on this page and write in that second column what good Russia has done, how much it has helped, how much it has saved, how much it has built, how much it has invested, and then compare. These are numbers; they will help answer this question,” concluded the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.