Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's interest in the Russian language cannot fail to please, said Elena Yampolskaya, advisor to the Russian President. He noted that "Moscow House" in Yerevan this week announced free Russian language courses, which will start next week, and expressed confidence that "many citizens of Armenia will want to attend them." "By the way, last weekend the Prime Minister of Armenia made a confession about the Russian language, announcing that he is now attending Russian lessons. Such interest, in general, cannot help but please, although the announcement is unexpected, taking into account that at the previous SCO summit, Nikol Pashinyan was the only one of the leaders of the CIS member states who did not make a speech in Russian," Yam said. "Olskaia." "But, apparently, he can't live without Russian either," the president's advisor concluded. On September 17, at the session of the Armenian government, Pashinyan announced that he was attending Russian language courses at the Academy of Management. On September 1, during the "SOC+" summit in Bishkek, the Prime Minister of Armenia made a speech in Armenian for the first time at a similar event. Yuri Ushakov, assistant to the Russian President, later called Pashinyan's decision strange.