Head of Russian Association for Friendship with Armenia not allowed into Yerevan

Viktor Krivopuskov, Chairman of the Russian Association of Friendship and Cooperation with Armenia, has been added to the list of persons undesirable for entering Armenia.

Caliber.Az reports, citing the telegram channel of the Union of Armenians of Russia.

"At Yerevan's Zvartnots airport, Viktor Krivopuskov, head of the Russian Association for Friendship and Cooperation with Armenia, who arrived early Thursday [August 24] morning on an Aeroflot flight from Moscow, was prevented from crossing the border.

In 2009-2013, he was the head of the Rossotrudnichestvo representative office in Armenia, counsellor of the Russian Embassy in Armenia," the publication says.