Taxi Controversial Russian Journalist Dmitry Kiselyov Took in Yerevan was a Hummer?

Attending a meeting of the Armenian-Russian parliamentary friendship club in Armenia's National Assembly yesterday evening was head of the recently formed state news agency Rossiya Segodnya ("Russia Today"), the aggressively pro-Kremlin Russian journalist Dmitry Kiselyov. During the meeting, the journalist said the role of the Russian language has diminished in Armenia, there are no Russian [public] schools, and as evidence, cited an example that "today I took a taxi here. The driver, a 20-year-old guy, couldn’t even count in Russian," reports local daily Aravot.

"When we left the National Assembly building, near the stairs we saw a Hummer that was waiting for someone. Since there was no one in the National Assembly at 7 pm apart from participants of that meeting, among whom were a few MPs, lecturers, students, and journalists, and Kiselyov and Andranik Nikoghosyan, organizer of the 'Putin' clubs, it remained for us to assume that the 'taxi' that Kiselyov took was this Hummer, the driver of which, by the way, when he noticed us approaching him with a camera and audio recorder to verify this, raised the tinted windows," reports the paper.