Russian President Vladimir Putin and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev did not discuss the fate of Ruben Vardanyan, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, RIA Novosti reports. On September 27, Ruben Vardanyan, the former state minister of Nagorno-Karabakh, was arrested by Azerbaijan border guards of while crossing the Hakari bridge into Armenia, and was transferred to Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.