Khachaturov was later dismissed from his post as CSTO Secretary General.
Svetlana Melkonyan says that representatives of national minorities in Armenia, including Russians, are not discriminated in Armenia and they live in equal conditions with Armenians.
According to André Hahn, Deputy Chairman of Germany’s DIE LINKE (The Left) party, the decreasing number of Armenian citizens now applying for asylum in Germany is partially due to the fact that the German government now classifies Armenia as a “safe”