Hraparak daily of the Republic of Armenia (RA) writes as follows, in particular: In September, we had written that the RF [i.e. the Russian Federation] ambassador to the RA, Sergey Kopyrkin, will say goodbye to Armenia, neither Armenia’s authorities nor Russia are satisfied with the ambassador who has been in office since April 2018, they believe that he is also to blame for the growing anti-Russian sentiments in Armenia.

The name of the replacement for Kopyrkin is being discussed in the RF. Alexander Vadimovich Sternik is a high-ranking diplomat, since 2012 he has been the director of the third department for the CIS countries of the RF MFA, dealing with relations with the countries of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan).

He has worked in the RF representation to the UN in New York. In 2005-2011 senior counselor at the RF embassy in Great Britain, 2011-2012: deputy director of the Department of Pan-European Cooperation at the RF MFA.