Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Yekaterinburg, and Russian officials expressed hope that relations with Armenia will continue to develop.

According to news.am, the Yekaterinburg meeting was Pashinyan's first foreign visit after the parliamentary elections on June 7. The prime minister also accepted an invitation to visit Moscow for the upcoming 80th Victory Day celebrations, as reported by panarmenian.net. A private meeting between Pashinyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin took place in St. Petersburg, according to primeminister.am.

Panarmenian.net reported that Russia and Armenia are developing multifaceted political cooperation and that unresolved issues are being addressed to avoid harming relations. Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan traveled to Brussels to lay groundwork for an EU deal aimed at mitigating the agricultural export shortfall caused by the Russian ban, as noted by eurasianet.org.

Primeminister.am stated that bilateral relations between Russia and Armenia are developing and that trade turnover between the two countries exceeded 11 billion rubles in 2024, amounting to 4.5 billion rubles in the first nine months of this year.