Date of Pashinyan’s visit to Moscow already known - paper
Armenian Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is to fly to Moscow on December 27 and to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of his visit, Zhoghovurd reports.
The newspaper reports that yesterday the Russian president said in his end-of-year news conference that Russia’s relations with Armenia were ‘smooth’ after the early parliamentary elections on December 9 and that Armenia is a strategic partner of Russia not only in the region, but also in the whole world, as a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU).
"We need to develop what has been created by previous generations of leaders. Historically the Armenian people are the closest ally of the Russian people in the South Caucasus, and I hope it will be so in the future," he said at the news conference.
Zhoghovurd finds the expected Pashinyan-Putin meeting remarkable for the issue that will be discussed by the two countries’ leaders.
The thing is that the validity of contract on supply of Russian natural gas to Armenia expires on December 31 and they are believed to negotiate over the price.
The media source assumes that the price set yet under the rule of the previous Armenian authorities will be left unchanged.
According to the source, a decision will depend heavily on relations between Pashinyan and Putin, which are quite trust-based. -0---