Sputnik News Service, Russia Tuesday 8:32 PM UTC Armenian Authorities Broke Promise Not to Persecute Political Predecessors - Lavrov MOSCOW, July 31 (Sputnik) - The current developments in Armenia contradict the statements by the new leadership of the country about the refusal to persecute its political predecessors, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told journalists on Tuesday. "Russia, as an ally of Yerevan, has always been interested in the stability of the Armenian state, therefore what is happening there worries us, including from the point of view of the tasks of normal functioning of CIS organizations in which Armenia participates," Lavrov said. "The recent events clearly destroy such a positive attitude, and run counter to the recent statements by the new leadership of Armenia that it has no intentions to organize the persecution of its predecessors for political reasons," Lavrov stressed. Former Armenian President Robert Kocharian and Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Yuri Khachaturov have been recently charged with violating constitutional order by suppressing the 2008 protests in Yerevan.