DISINFO: Armenian people have become hostages in the global war with Russia
SUMMARY
Armenian people have become hostages in the global war with Russia. People, even without realising it, end up in such situations – they are simply used to create problems against Russia. The church and the people will be used too. This is all the result of the global war between Russia and the West. Therefore, whoever controls the Caucasus and Asia will dictate who ends up 'in the grinder' and how they will be used.
RESPONSE
This is an attempt to exploit the power struggle between Armenia’s government and the Armenian Apostolic Church in order to advance a series of recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about encircling and destabilising Russia, and about Russia as the ultimate target of international events. This disinformation story appeared as a controversial series of arrests ordered by Armenian authorities to prevent what it denounces as a coup plot.
Nothing indicates that these events are aimed against Russia or that Western countries are involved in them in any way.
Victimisation through the portrayal of Russia as the endless subject of Western machinations is a constant pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives, such as claims that the EU wants to use Armenia as a geopolitical tool, that the West wants to sacrifice Armenia to weaken Russia, that France sees Armenia as a springboard for damaging Russia, or that Armenia’s Ukrainization ongoing through biolabs, NGOs and submission to West.