Panic pension increase. Water schedule. Government–doctors confrontation. AlphaNewsroom 02/25/26

Today in Alpha Newsroom:

🔹 Starting April 1, two months before the elections, pensions in Armenia will increase by 10,000 drams. The country has about half a million pensioners and voters

🔹 Will Pashinyan be able to convince pensioners to vote for him this way, when they remember his previous statements?

🔹He had eight years to raise pensions but did nothing. When a force appeared that he saw as a threat, he panicked and raised them – Narek Karapetyan

🔹The pension increase does not cover the minimum consumer basket – Tadevos Avetisyan

🔹There were competing teams that also made proposals to socially vulnerable voters – Alen Ghevondyan

🔹 From midnight until 7 a.m., there will be no water. Pashinyan, however, is not angry, unlike in the electricity company case

🔹Our country has water, but no governance – Narek Karapetyan

🔹 Doctors–government confrontation: Healthcare workers’ salaries have decreased, but after taking off the white coat, doctors are ordinary people—with loans, mortgages, and daily expenses

🔹Don’t force us to take to the streets. You cannot demand quality medical care while paying pennies – Gevorg Grigoryan

🔹 Didn’t that poor citizen vote for him to solve problems, not make them worse? – survey in Aparan

🔹 Armenian–Russian relations and new contradictions – political scientist Konstantin Tasits on AlphaNews

🔹 The Defense Minister is in Tehran, the Foreign Minister was in Washington. Papikyan discussed with Larijani the security environment surrounding Armenia and Iran

🔹 Will the EU help Pashinyan falsify the elections? Yerevan is between a “Moldovan scenario” and the search for a new identity

🔹 Armenia abstained from voting on the UN resolution regarding Ukraine

🔹I don’t believe the US will strike Iran, since it does not serve its interests – Oleg Makarenko

🔹An F-16 fighter jet has crashed in Turkey