Margarita Simonyan, journalist of Armenian origin living in Russia, addressed the Armenian authorities on her Facebook page.

I appeal to the Armenian authorities. Just to the authorities, and not to the people, of which I am a part.

“I am appealing only because your Internet troops have dung my social networks with demands (in a boorish and aggressive form) to ‘express my position’.

You asked – I express.

Look at yourself from the outside. See what you are doing. How do you behave. What kind of Armenians are you?

Armenians are an honest, noble and grateful people. It always has been so. And you behave like (FORBIDDEN BY ROSKOMNADZOR).

In response to the long-term goodness and protection you received from Russia, you did not recognize Crimea. Because this is an internal affair of Armenia.

Exceptionally out of political revenge, you arrested Robert Kocharyan, Russia’s permanent ally. Arrested on purpose, defiantly, spitting right in the face of their ‘Russian friends’. Because this is an internal affair of Armenia.

You have flooded the country with anti-Russian NGOs that teach youth in your territory how to overthrow power in Russia. You have become a springboard for anti-Russian forces in the Caucasus. Because this is an internal affair of Armenia.

You kicked out Russian Armenian businessmen. You do not want anything that is connected with Russia. Because this is an internal affair of Armenia.

Your media and social networks are pouring mud on Russia, Putin, everyone who supports Putin, especially Russian Armenians (for example, me). You have divided the unfortunate, already disappearing Armenian people into enemies – Russian Armenians – and “real armenians” – those who support your momentary power. Because this is an internal affair of Armenia.

And now, when there is a war on your border, when the very existence of your regime is in jeopardy, when the Armenians of the whole world already see the living ghosts of the Janissaries with crooked knives that they used to cut our ancestors, you remembered that Russia should save you again.

Is this not the internal affair of Armenia?

After all the evil and choking contempt that you have shown towards Russia in recent years, do your information troops and you consider yourself entitled to wait for help?

In fact, after all that you have done, Russia has every moral right to spit on you and grind it.

But it won’t do that. I’m sure. It will help this time too.

Because this is Russia. Generous and noble, my homeland, my beloved.

And you are just a handful of screaming politicians who betrayed the interests of the great Armenian people for a moment of power and petty personal revenge.

Read Narekatsi at night. Maybe you will wake up the remnants of the famous Armenian conscientiousness and the ability to appreciate good.

If you do not have Narekatsi, then I will tell you. It lies on my bedside table.

And about the war, I will tell both sides only one thing: stop! There is nothing worse than war. I know it in my own skin. Just stop before it’s too late.