Rossotrudnichestvo turned to Bastrykin because of the desecration of a monument in Yerevan. The head of the department, Yevgeny Primakov, wrote about this on Telegram.
“In my personal opinion, this is a crime,” he said. Earlier, the Russian Embassy in Armenia expressed the hope that the Desecrator of the monument to the siege of Leningrad and his actions will receive a legal assessment from the Armenian authorities.