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YEREVAN. – The National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia (RA) on Thursday will convene a special session, during which it will discuss the agreement signed between the governments of Armenia and Russia, and with respect to Russia’s providing a soft loan of US$200 million to Armenia and wherewith Russia will supply modern weapons to the RA Armed Forces, reported Zhamanak daily.

“According to our source close to the RPA [i.e. the ruling Republican Party of Armenia], within the framework of this amount, the RA could receive the well-known Iskander-M operational tactical [ballistic] missile systems, which are considered one of the best developments of the Russian missile building and it has a quite high technical characteristics.

“There may be several explanations as to why the Russians would want the RA to be armed with the Iskander-M systems,” wrote Zhamanak.

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