On November 25^th, the Diplomatic School hosted H.E. Ivan Volynkin, Ambassador of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Armenia. Ambassador Volynkin delivered a lecture on the foreign policy priorities of the Russian Federation, spoke of the Russian operations against terrorist groups in Syria and the steadily growing cooperation between Armenia and Russia in various spheres. The Ambassador answered students' questions on the incident of Russian Su-24 being shot down by Turkish Air Forces, on already registered results and perspectives of cooperation within the Eurasian Economic Union, on the re-opening of Abkhazian section of the Georgian railway, CSO reforms and on different issues of the agenda of Armenian-Russian relations.