The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has strongly rejected claims by the Information and Press Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the Parliament’s decision to initiate constitutional revision. “MoFA considers the claims as completely unfounded and untrue, and as having clear tendency to compromise the political process of historic significance for Macedonia and its citizens,” the MoFA said in a press release. On Monday, the Information and Press Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the Parliament’s decision to initiate constitutional revision came as a result of blackmail, intimidation and vote buying. The ministry says the United States manipulated “the irregular vote” in the Macedonian parliament.