Samvel Karapetyan returns home. Protest outside Human Rights Defender’s Office. AlphaNewsroom 01/19/26
January 19 2026, 14:00
Today in Alpha Newsroom:
🔹 Businessman and philanthropist Samvel Karapetyan was transferred from the NSS detention center to his home, citizens welcomed him with applause
🔹We are facing a humanitarian crisis in Armenia – Vardevanyan
🔹You cannot live one way for 30 years and then 10 years differently – Narek Karapetyan
🔹The clergy of the Masyatsotn Diocese expressed their loyalty to the newly appointed leader
🔹Protest outside the Embassy of Iran: police did not allow people to march
🔹 Seven protesters outside the Iranian Embassy were arrested – Ministry of Internal Affairs spokesperson
🔹 Vardan Ghukasyan was transferred from the hospital to the NSS; an ambulance was called for him
🔹The report of the investigative committee on the 44-day war was never presented to parliament – Gegham Manukyan, member of the ARF Supreme Body and MP from the Armenia faction
🔹 Protest outside the Human Rights Defender’s Office demanding the release of Narek Samsonyan and Vazgen Saghatelyan
🔹The Armenia faction has begun a series of meetings, announced MP Ishkhan Saghatelyan on his Facebook page
🔹’This is not a bowl, it’s a trough’: the lavish bonuses of government officials – InstaFace
🔹 Any foreign policy activity of the Trump administration is conditioned by the US domestic political agenda – Marat Bashirov
🔹 Russia is dissatisfied with the situation in the South Caucasus and will seek solutions based on its interests – Movses Ghazaryan
🔹 Snowfall has paralyzed traffic in Yerevan’s Nor Nork district
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