Russian ambassador to Armenia Sergey Kopyrkin was summoned to Moscow for consultations, according to the comment of Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

As stated in the document posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry's website, Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergey Kopyrkin was summoned to Moscow on May 24 for consultations.

Armenian politologists Armen Badalyan and Suren Surenyants expressed their opinion that the reason for calling the ambassador to Moscow could be the earlier statement of Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan in the National Assembly. Nikol Pashinyan claimed that two member states of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) helped Azerbaijan prepare for the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh. He is believed to have referred to Russia and Belarus.

Another political scientist, Stepan Danielyan, did not rule out that calling the ambassador to Moscow may be due to Lukashenko’s statement at the meeting with Putin in Minsk. The latter announced yesterday that he has a very interesting proposal for Putin regarding the Caucasus, which he has already discussed in Azerbaijan.

According to Danielyan, if it has something to do with the ambassador’s summoning to Moscow, it means that there may be serious changes in Russia’s Caucasus policy.