Russia Was Behind Giuliani’s Invitation to Армения. Polygraph.info

On September 27, the Washington Post reported on the scheduled appearance of Rudolf Guiliani, U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, at the Eurasia Economic Union forum in Yerevan, Armenia. The report said Guiliani canceled his participation after learning that Russia was behind the event.

On September 30, the day of Giuliani’s scheduled speech, his name was still listed on the agenda handed out to the press. According to journalists attending the conference, no explanation was given regarding the change of the agenda.
The Kremlin claimed on September 30 that Russia had nothing to do with Giuliani’s invitation. “The Russian side knows nothing about Giuliani’s participation, [or] the cancellation of his participation,” President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said.

That claim is false.

Neil Hauer, a journalist and security analyst based in Yerevan, Armenia, told Polygraph.info that the Armenian Foreign Ministry had told him it was not involved in inviting Rudy Giuliani.

“The Armenian MFA told me they could not provide any information on Giuliani since his invitation was not sent through their official channels, so it must have come from someone else,” Hauer said.

Evidence suggests that the Giuliani invitation came from the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), which is headquartered in Moscow.

The panel on which Guiliani was scheduled to appear was moderated by Sergey Glazyev, who was an adviser to Putin from 2012 through last month. Glazyev became a candidate for a top position at the Eurasia Economic Commission, the executive body of the Eurasian Economic Union, during the Union’s August 9 summit in Kyrgyzstan, pending confirmation of the EAEU member states during the September 30 meeting in Armenia.

On October 1, Russia announced Glazyev’s appointment as the Eurasian Economic Commission’s Minister of Integration and Macroeconomics.

Sergey Glazyev is best known for his calls to cut Russia off from the Euro/Dollar zone and for the country to focus its monetary resources on domestic production. Among his books is one titled "The Last World War: The United States Start and Lose."
Glazyev also was the first to publicly question the loyalty of top Russian officials who the U.S. did not include on the so-called “Kremlin list.”

The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Glazyev in 2014 for his role of Russia’s annexation of the Ukrainian Crimea peninsula and orchestrating the war in the eastern Ukraine.