Karapetyan founded political party. Pashinyan dismissed police chief. AlphaNewsroom 01/19/26
January 19 2026, 21:00
Today in Alpha Newsroom:
🔹 The temporarily postponed Episcopal Assembly will be organized in February in Austria
🔹 Ahead of the elections, Pashinyan replaces the Chief of Police: Aram Ghazaryan has been dismissed, he will be replaced by Kamo Tsutsulyan
🔹 “You can’t take three steps in that cell”: The health condition of Gyumri’s opposition mayor Vardan Ghukasyan has worsened in prison
🔹 Supporters of Narek Samsonyan met with representatives of the Human Rights Defender’s office and presented their demands
🔹 The detention for former Masis mayor David Hambardzumyan has been replaced with house arrest
🔹 Samvel Karapetyan is at home; once again house arrest has been applied against him
🔹 A new force in Armenia’s political arena: Karapetyan’s “Our Way” movement has registered the “Strong Armenia” party
🔹 Progress in the Armenia–Turkey normalization process will not harm the Yerevan–Baku process, but will help it – Rubinyan
🔹 Does Armenia’s civil society support Turkey’s interference in Armenia’s internal affairs? – Beniamin Matevosyan
🔹 Another round of Russian-American negotiations will take place tomorrow in Davos
🔹 Everything Rubio or someone from Trump’s team declares today is a play of the Iranian card – Marat Bashirov
🔹 Russia is not satisfied with the current situation in the South Caucasus region and will seek solutions based on its own interests – Movses Ghazaryan
🔹 International organizations’ reaction to Armenia’s economy – Lilia Amirkhanyan
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