The Armenian prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan,

will pay a two-day visit to Russia, the RIA Novosti news agency quoted the Armenian government’s press service as saying on Monday.

Pashinyan will take part in a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council on 25 December, and the next day will participate in an informal meeting of heads of state of the Commonwealth of Independent States, RIA Novosti reported.

In October, Pashinyan skipped a summit in Kyrgyzstan attended by Vladimir Putin and the leaders of Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, amid a growing rift between Yerevan and Moscow.