"Annexation of Eastern Armenia": reaction of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Pashinyan's ears and "historian's stupor"

The presentation of the material in the new Armenian history textbook for the 8th grade, in which the annexation of Eastern Armenia to the Russian Empire in 1828 is called annexation, "can cause any historian to be taken aback," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

"One of the chapters of the new manual under the provocative title "Forcible annexation of Eastern Armenia to Russia" in a distorted form describes the events in the South Caucasus of the late XVIII — early XIX centuries. In particular, the results of the Russian-Persian War of 1826-1828 were revised. The Turkmanchay world is called nothing less than the "annexation" of Eastern Armenia. Such a presentation can cause any historian to be dumbfounded.

— To question the special role of the Russian Empire, and subsequently the USSR and For Russia to take part in the formation of today's Armenia means going against well-known facts. It's about another shameless attempt to rewrite our common history. In the best traditions of Western propaganda and political engineering, white is called black with the "light hand" of individual Armenian figures who are especially zealous in trying to curry favor with their sponsors.

— The introduction of such formulations directly contradicts the obligations assumed by the Armenian leadership in the field of preserving historical memory. Thus, in the Joint Statement of the President of the Russian Federation V. V. Putin and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia N. V. Pashinyan dated April 19, 2022, it was said: "the parties, while maintaining common approaches to the common past, expressed their intention to continue the fight against the revision of the results of the Second World War and the falsification of history."

The Russian Foreign Ministry responded to the rape of the common history of the two peoples undertaken by the Armenian authorities in a school textbook for the 8th grade, Comrade General writes on this occasion:

"Well, and then the Russian Foreign Ministry on duty expresses the hope that Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia N.V. Pashinyan and his minions will change their minds to curry favor with Western sponsors and will not compost children's brains with Russophobia. Of course, these are empty hopes. But the Russian Foreign Ministry, once again protesting, does not even hint at possible sanctions in the more than likely case that Pashinyan will ignore it. That's why he will do it."

Why the new history manual for Armenian schoolchildren can "cause consternation" in a normal historian, read in our previous article on the topic: Armenia actually denies its own existence: Russian historian