State Duma Deputy Leonid Kalashnikov MOSCOW, Jan 10 The head of the State Duma Committee on the CIS, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots Leonid Kalashnikov (Communist Party of the Russian Federation), commenting on the participation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in the CSTO summit, said that even before the events in Kazakhstan, Armenia understood that Western countries were using them. involvement of international terrorists in the events in Kazakhstan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Monday during an extraordinary session of the CSTO Collective Security Council. The country expects from the treaty states to step up joint efforts to strengthen crisis response mechanisms, he also said. The Armenian Embassy in Russia received threats because of the situation in Kazakhstan «There were many Western NGOs in Armenia, and not necessarily he (Pashinyan) was such a personal protege (American billionaire George Soros), it was just that (the West) had calculations for some nationalist movements. They (Armenia) also opened biological stations, «Kalashnikov told RIA Novosti. In his words, Armenia understood perfectly well that they were used as a lever in the region to put pressure on Russia, and in another context they are of little interest to the West. ) they happened a little earlier (than the events in Kazakhstan). That they are needed for some purpose of America or France, «Kalashnikov added. Earlier, politicians and political scientists called Pashinyan a protege of Soros. In particular, at the end of 2020, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev called Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan «a product of Soros.» At the same time, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan himself told reporters a year earlier that the American billionaire financier George Soros requested a meeting with him before the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2019, but the meeting did not take place due to the busy schedule of the Armenian Prime Minister.
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