YEREVAN. – Even the ruling coalition’s Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) National Assembly (NA) MPs are shocked by Tuesday’s warm greeting between RPA MP Arakel Movsisyan (a.k.a. Shmays) and opposition Heritage Party MP Armen Martirosyan, Haykakan Zhamanak daily writes.

“Armen Martirosyan was standing together with a group of MPs when Shmays approached. These two MPs, who called one another ‘animal’ at the NA Sessions’ Hall past week and subsequently Shmays lashed sexual nature profanities [to Martirosyan], yesterday [Tuesday] greeted one another with a handshake. Martirosyan, with a wide smile on his face, asked Shmays ‘how are you?’ and Shmays, with a wide smile on his face, responded ‘I’m fine, [and] how are you?’”, Haykakan Zhamanak writes.