Preparations underway for face-to-face Putin-Pashinyan meeting – Kremlin
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan plans to visit Russia, and preparations are underway for his in-person meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS on Monday.
Earlier on Monday, Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko met with President of the National Assembly of Armenia Alen Simonyan, saying that a face-to-face meeting of Putin and Pashinyan was prepared.
"[Pashinyan’s visit to Russia] is expected. A personal meeting [with Putin] is being prepared," the Kremlin spokesman said. This year, Putin and Pashinyan met in person three times, and they spoke over the phone more than ten times.