YEREVAN. – The name of Armenian National Assembly Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan is mentioned in connection with a criminal case that has opened, Hraparak daily reports. 

“Abrahamyan was to travel to Ukraine on Thursday on an official visit, with a representational and large delegation.

“He was to meet not solely with his colleague, Ukraine’s [Supreme] Rada [parliament] leader Volodymyr Lytvyn, but with the country’s President Viktor Yanukovych.

“The visit was to last three to four days, and Abrahamyan had hired a special plane to head to Kyiv. But it seems the angry ‘tops’ [because of the aforesaid criminal case] said: ‘Stop! There is no going!’” Hraparak writes.