Daniel Ioannisyan, head of the “Union of Informed Citizens” NGO, wrote on his Facebook page:
“Russian state TV is announcing that the elections will be rigged in Armenia and that there are political prisoners.
Can you imagine? We are taught democracy by Russia, where opposition leaders are killed (by shooting them in the street and poisoning them by the FSB), where you can be imprisoned for liking a post calling Putin corrupt or for demonstrating for any reason, where there are 1,400 political prisoners and 5,100 people imprisoned for political reasons, and where all social networks are banned.
Our elections are being discussed by Russia, where elections have long since become a formal-organizational event, in which none of the candidates allowed to participate criticize Putin, where, despite all this, the transparency of the elections is decreasing, cameras are being removed from polling stations (so that footage of vote-rigging does not spread too widely), and all independent observers who have not managed to flee the country are sitting.”
