YEREVAN. – Hraparak daily of the Republic of Armenia (RA) writes: The [Armenian PM Nikol] Pashinyan-[Russian President Vladimir] Putin phone conversation took place yesterday. In the statement published on the Kremlin's official website about it, there was a rather noteworthy point which was missing from the statement published on the RA Prime Minister's website. According to the Kremlin, "Nikol Pashinyan informed [Putin] about the contacts that happened in recent times that are aimed at the normalization of relations between Armenia and Turkey."
This is, of course, an interesting nuance, especially when, according to the Russian side, Pashinyan himself called; and judging by the Kremlin's statement, he called to report to the Russian president about the course of the very steps taken towards the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations, or the agreements and results achieved.
We would not have paid attention to this nuance if publications had not appeared in the Turkish and Russian expert-analytical community that a Pashinyan-[Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan meeting might take place in the near future.
And the Russian expert-analytic community believes that a possible meeting between Pashinyan and Erdogan was discussed during the last [Armenia’s special representative Ruben] Rubinyan-[Turkey’s special representative Serdar] Kilic meeting (…).
The Russians note that the matter of a Pashinyan-Erdogan meeting was a component of the process of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations (…).
Taking into account that the process of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations is underway "under the high patronage" of Russia, we can even assume that it is possible that [Pashinyan] asked Putin for permission to participate in a possible meeting at the level of Armenia-Turkey leaders, or received an instruction of participation in that meeting.
