Chairman of the Russian State Duma Gennady Seleznev has invited the newly-elected speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia Artur Baghdasarian to pay an official visit to Moscow. Russian ambassador to Armenia Anatoly Dryukov handed the invitation message to the Armenian speaker today. In the course of the meeting with A. Baghdasarian the ambassador noted the importance of developing Armenian-Russian inter-parliamentary contacts and cooperation of the parliamentarians of the two countries within various international organizations.