“For example, the signboard in Pushkin street is written in Armenian and English, whereas in Almaty, the same street name is written in Russian and Kazakh, even sometimes only in Russian,” so responded the Coordinator of the Analytical Association of CSTO, Doctor of Political Sciences, Igor Panarin, referring to the question about Dmitry Kiselyov’s statements, when delivering a lecture entitled “CSTO and Eurasian security” organized by the CSTO Armenian Representation and the International Center for Human Development, under the “Young Diplomacy 2014” scientific-practical school. Igor Panarin refrained from giving any statements of Kiselyov’s estimates, indicating that he personally was not in the auditorium and did not know the details. In the auditorium, the young people opposed saying that there is a thirty-percent Russian-speaking population in Almaty, so it’s normal that the street names are written in Russian, which cannot be said about Armenia. Panarin began to maneuver. “I am just bringing an example. Anyway, Armenia’s strategic ally is not the English language, but Russia. Of course, it is up to the authorities of Armenia to decide, it is your right, at the same time, it is a matter of bilateral relations.”
Tatev HARUTYUNYAN
