Newly appointed Russian Ambassador to Armenia Vyacheslav Kovalenko presented the copies of his credentials to RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan.

Nalbandyan and Kovalenko discussed Russian-Armenian bilateral issues related to the regional and foreign policy, RA Foreign Ministry Press service informed NEWS.am. Vyacheslav Kovalenko comes to replace Nikolai Pavlov.

Kovalenko, 63, graduated from the Institute of Oriental Languages at Moscow State University in 1972 and was on diplomat since 1973. In 2004 Kovalenko was appointed as Director of the Second Department of CIS countries at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was appointed as Ambassador of Russia to Georgia on 11 July 2006. Kovalenko speaks Russian, Arabic, Belarusian and French.