Neppremier calls with Boris Johnson

london - British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson called 18 minutes with a joker who pretended to be Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pasjinian. British authorities suspect that the Kremlin is behind the phone call. Premier Theresa May announced on Thursday that an investigation into the incident is in progress.

The so-called Armenian prime minister joked that he was visiting President Vladimir Putin and hoped he would not be poisoned with nerve gas, a reference to the attack on Russian ex-spy Skripal in March this year. Johnson said he would like to come to Armenia to talk about that country's experience with nerve gas. In the phone call, the two talked about Russian oligarchs in London and an abusive poem that Johnson once wrote about Turkish president Erdogan.

The British Foreign Office stressed that it quickly became clear that it was not a real phone call. Sub-minister Alan Duncan said: 'If they tried to fool us, then that went wrong. Now we know that the Russians are even fainter than we thought. '

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