US and Armenia discuss TRIPP project in Syunik. Details on Robert Kocharyan’s health. Alpha Newsroom 03.09.2026
September 03 2026, 17:00
Today in Alpha News Room:
🔹 Levon Kocharyan responds to statements by Nikol Pashinyan and shares details on Robert Kocharyan’s health;
🔹 Court hearing on extending Gagik Tsarukyan’s detention;
🔹 Practical work begins in Syunik on the “Trump Route” project;
🔹 Zakharova warns: Armenia’s possible introduction of a visa regime would hit Yerevan itself;
🔹 Alexey Overchuk, Russia’s deputy prime minister, says Yerevan must choose between the EAEU and the EU, stressing that the West is trying to use Armenia as a tool against Moscow;
🔹 Sergey Lavrov, head of Russia’s foreign ministry, expresses confidence that Yerevan and Belgrade will eventually abandon their aspirations for European integration;
🔹 The head of Rosatom will visit Yerevan in September to discuss the capacity of the new nuclear power plant;
🔹 Pashinyan says Armenia will not object if Russia decides to withdraw its military base from the country’s territory;
🔹 What did Alen Simonyan and Hikmet Hajiyev discuss? Comment from Simonyan;
🔹 A representative of Azerbaijan’s president says peace has effectively been established, though the landmine problem remains one of the main obstacles to normalization;
🔹 Pashinyan says Armenia has started to be perceived as a producer of the highest-quality dried fruit;
🔹 Armenia is not going to give up the Russian market: Gevorg Papoyan;
🔹 Andranik Tevanyan’s message from the penitentiary: the theft of mandates happened even before the National Assembly elections.