YEREVAN. – The meeting of the supreme council of the Eurasian Economic Union will be held on October 1, in Yerevan, the capital city of the Republic of Armenia (RA), Zhoghovurd (People) newspaper recalled. 

“At RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s news conference that took place in May this year, the latter had announced that, among other heads of state, RF [Russian Federation] President Vladimir Putin will also attend the meeting that day.

“According to various reports, Vladimir Putin has also expressed a wish to visit the penitentiaries [of Armenia], and thus aiming to meet also with RA second president Robert Kocharyan, a defendant in the March 1 [2008 criminal] case.

“Yesterday, Zhoghovurd daily spoke around these topics with RF Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to RA Sergey Kopirkin, who informed that at this time the details are not so well known in connection with Vladimir Putin’s visit and possible meetings [in Armenia],” Zhoghovurd wrote.