Tense situation near the Anti-Corruption Court. Authorities’ anti-church campaign. Alpha Newsroom 17.04.2026
April 17 2026, 17:00
Today in Alpha Newsroom, 5:00 PM:
🔹 “Changes will happen, very soon we will have a strong Armenia”: Samvel Karapetyan
🔹 “The authorities are obstructing us because they are confident of their defeat”: Narek Karapetyan
🔹 “They are deliberately calling members of our movement and asking for help”: Narek Karapetyan on the audio recordings
🔹 House arrest and a travel ban imposed on 12 detainees in Artashat
🔹 Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin accuses the authorities of an anti-church campaign
🔹 Robert Kocharyan on regional security and the role of Iran
🔹 Sergey Lavrov at the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers meeting: expanding cooperation and the CIS’s 35th anniversary on the agenda
🔹 “You are many times weaker than Samvel Karapetyan and Gagik Tsarukyan, not to mention Robert Kocharyan”: Artsvik Minasyan
🔹 Nikol Pashinyan’s attempts to divide the Diaspora have failed: Hrach Varzhapetyan