Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman on Friday called "unacceptable" attempts to incite enmity between Russia and Armenia.

Iran PressEurope: In a video message on Telegram, Maria Zakharova said, "the information space of Armenia has recently been characterized by a distinct tendency to spread one-sided, negative and often simply false messages about Russia."  

"We consider unacceptable attempts to incite enmity and hatred between our people by blaming Russia for all the trouble of the Armenian people," she said.  

Zakharova condemned the arrest of an observer of the Russian Sputnik News Agency in Armenia on Thursday.  

"The provocation with the detention of Sputnik Armenia observer Ashot Gevorgyan and blogger Mikael Badalyan in Armenia is aimed at clouding relations between Moscow and Yerevan," she said.  

Zakharova pointed out that the Armenian authorities banned entry to the country of a number of Russian political and public figures because of their criticism of the current Yerevan's line, including lawmaker Konstantin Zatulin, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan, media manager Aram Gabrelyanov, and experts Andranik Migranyan and Viktor Krivopuskov.  

Zakharova said that the statements of some Russian experts "cannot be compared to the anti-Russian campaign in a number of Armenian media."

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