Russian Deputy Prime Minister in Yerevan. Political persecution against Vardan Ghukasyan. Alpha Newsroom 12/17/25
December 17 2025, 17:00
Today in Alpha Newsroom:
🔹 The National Assembly adopted the draft law on universal health insurance, which will take effect on January 1, 2026
🔹 Intense struggle to enter the Civil Contract party’s pre-election list: Hayk Sargsyan has been excluded
🔹 Has the governor of Shirak been dismissed? His scheduled press conference today has been postponed
🔹 The opposition mayor of Gyumri describes the cases brought against him as political persecution
🔹 “Tigran Avinyan is a land thief”: a report was submitted to the Prosecutor’s Office against the inaction of Yerevan’s mayor
🔹 Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister is in Yerevan to attend the Armenian-Russian intergovernmental commission meeting
🔹Kaja Kallas’s statement is a direct and blatant interference in Armenia’s internal affairs – Ishkhan Saghatelyan
🔹If it is about EU assistance in elections, then such elections are inherently undemocratic – Alexey Leonkov
🔹The European Union must influence elections within the legal framework – Marat Bashirov
🔹The opposition’s alert: the EU is interfering in Armenia’s internal affairs. Alpha News’s guest is political scientist Alen Ghevondyan
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