The Russian embassy in Armenia has denied reports that Russian special services were involved in the shooting at the Armenian parliament in 1999 that killed eight people including the then Armenian prime minister.
The embassy issued a statement quoted by the ITAR-TASS news agency “in connection with recent press articles about the alleged involvement of the Russian special services in the tragic events at the Armenian parliament on 27 October 1999.”
“This kind of claim, which has nothing to do with reality, is being spread by people who are well-known for their hatred of Russia’s democratic reforms,” the embassy noted. They “are pursuing certain provocative objectives aimed at creating a negative image of the new Russia in the eyes of the world community.”
The embassy described the claims as “a doomed attempt being made to undermine the centuries-old relations between the Armenian and Russian people.”
Former Federal Security Service (FSB) agent Alexander Litvinenko said in various interviews that the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General-Staff of the Russian armed forces had organized the terrorist attack in the Armenian parliament. Litvinenko fled to the UK from criminal charges brought by the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office. The embassy called him the “boss” to Nairi Unanyan who led the group of gunmen that attacked the parliament.
The statement said Litvinenko “is patronized [in the UK] by a well-known oligarch”, an allusion to Boris Berezovsky.
The gunmen killed the Armenian prime minister Vazgen Sarkissian, the parliament speaker Karen Demirchan and six ministers and deputies.
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