Samvel Aleksanyan banned from entering Russia: 6 hours at Moscow airport According to the very reliable informationof 168.am, Samvel Aleksanyan (Lfik) left for Moscow yesterday on a flight from Yerevan to Moscow. On the same plane was Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Armenia Alen Simonyan, who left to attend the 14th meeting of the secretaries of the security councils of the CIS participating states, launched in Moscow. While Alen Simonyan was greeted in Moscow and escorted to attend the event, Russian border guards kept Samvel Aleksanyan at the airport for about 6 hours, conducted checks, and then banned him from entering Russia.