VIDEO: Is Aivazyan the reason you remembered about the exhibition? Putin to the museum director

Today in St. Petersburg, on the second day of the unofficial summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the leaders of the CIS countries arrived at the Mikhailovsky Palace. The leaders examined the exhibits of the Russian Museum.

A video has been published online showing how Russian President Vladimir Putin introduces the director of the Russian Museum, art expert Vladimir Gusev, to the late-arriving Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

“There was a wonderful exhibition by Aivazovsky in Yerevan (with pieces taken from our museum),” Gusev said, addressing Pashinyan.