"The elections on the whole were held in accordance with the acting Azerbaijani legislation. There were violations. There are always violations in elections. They were registered by Russian observers as well. However, the scale of the violations does not call for questioning the legitimacy of the election results," a ministry statement said.
"Russia does not share the evaluation of the international mission of election observers, which included representatives from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, PACE, the European Parliament, and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, that the elections in Azerbaijan did not correspond to a number of obligations of this country within the framework of the OSCE and the Council of Europe," the statement said.
"It is absolutely unclear who decided on the content of the international mission, which had the courage to speak in the name of the OSCE," the statement said.
The Russian Foreign Ministry supports objective and unbiased expert monitoring that does not result in political verdicts, the statement said.
