YEREVAN. – Hraparak daily of Armenia writes: NA [(National Assembly)] President Alen Simonyan has received an official invitation from RF [(Russian Federation)] State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin to be in Russia "on an official visit for the purpose of developing cooperation." The delegation led by the NA president will leave for Moscow on October 9.

According to some information, the purpose of the invitation is the events unrolling in Armenia in recent times, the growth of the anti-Russian wave [in the country], and the announcements about [Armenia] leaving the CSTO. Are they in the RF trying to prepare a successor to power [in Armenia], in the person of Alen Simonyan, Simonyan was asked yesterday. He said that the visit was planned a long time ago, it has nothing to do with the latest realities, then he swore an oath of allegiance to [Armenian PM] Pashinyan on the spot.