Today, January 22, a car accident took place in Yerevan. Around 8:30 p.m., a "Nissan Rogue" driven by 29-year-old Vaghinak G., a resident of Armavir region, and a "Ford" ambulance, driven by 41-year-old Gevorg M., a resident of Armavir region, registered in the balance sheet of the "Armavir" medical center, collided at 1 address of Yerevan highway, reports Shamshyan.com. As a result of the accident, according to preliminary information, fortunately there were no injuries. Due to the fact of the accident, documents are being drawn up in the 1st battalion of the Yerevan city regiment of the PS. C. According to Shamshyan, there was no patient in the ambulance at the time of the accident.

During his working visit to the Swiss Confederation, the President of the Republic Vahagn Khachaturyan visited Saint Jacob Church in Geneva. The President of the Republic was met and greeted by the vicar of the Diocese of Switzerland, Fr. Gusan, Supreme Venerable Aljanyan. The president toured the church, talked with representatives of the Armenian community in Geneva and presented brief details on the current situation and developments in Armenia and the region.

There can be several reasons for this policy of the government dissolving the church, starting from the spiritual (the fight against Orthodoxy) to the fact that the Church is hindering the Turkish-Azerbaijani rapprochement. The Church, as the custodian of the Armenian identity, as well as the claimant on the Artsakh issue, a national institution feeding the demand for the condemnation and recognition of the Armenian Genocide, is not acceptable to the Turkish-Azerbaijani tandem. Lawyer Ara Zohrabyan wrote about this. "The authorities started actions to weaken the Church earlier, before the war (remember, for example, the initiative to exclude the history of the Armenian Church from educational programs, the attempt to abolish tax benefits, etc.). 2025 since May, the church-dissolving policy has been manifested in more brutal methods: various criminal proceedings, criminal prosecutions of clergymen, arrests, arrests, searches, confiscation of things, as well as defamation of the Church and clergymen.

On December 19, an emergency occurred in Tavush marz. Around 06:10, the patrols of the 1st company of the Tavush marz battalion of the Police Patrol Service of the RA Ministry of Internal Affairs, led by the battalion commander Armen Bezhanyan and the deputy battalion commander Poghos Mosinyan, stopped the "Mercedes" car driven by 41-year-old Armen S., a resident of Tavush marz, on the Independence street of the Ijevan community. He drove the vehicle while intoxicated, reports Shamshyan.com. While drawing up a report, the patrols noticed an object under the driver's uniform and offered to take off the uniform, after which the latter took off the uniform and saw that under the military uniform he hid a rifle without a factory number and a cartridge box for the rifle loaded with 24 bullets of 7.62 caliber, which Armen S. informed the patrols that it belonged to of his late father and wears it for self-defense. C. According to Shamshyan's information, Armen S. was arrested on suspicion of possession of weapons and ammunition and was presented with the prepared documents to the Tavush regional investigative department of the RA Investigative Committee, where on December 19, within the framework of the initiated criminal proceedings, he was transferred to the detention facility of the Ijevan Department of the Community Police Department of the RA Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the photojournalist, Armen S. is the director of "Nargit" LLC.

On December 28, i.e. tomorrow, I will take part in the Holy and Immortal Liturgy in the Church of the Holy Virgin in Garni. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced this on his Facebook page and published a video. "Here, too, my expectation is that Kutrich Nersisyan's name will not be mentioned during the liturgy, due to the justifications and reasons given earlier. By the way, there are people who say that they want to express their protest in different churches, whenever they participate in the liturgy and the name of Kuprich Nersisyan is mentioned. Is such a thing possible and permissible? I think that yes, such a thing is possible and permissible, because it is a legitimate expectation that those people who declared themselves as noble and as people living by certain rules, and did not fulfill it, do not fulfill it and are not going to face this fact. We, the followers of the Armenian Apostolic Holy Church, should not only form an attitude on the occasion of that fact, but also express that attitude and, ultimately, achieve practical results arising from that attitude," he said.

On December 18, the anti-church thugs, under the open patronage of their infamous ringleader, invaded the Mother See again, trying to loot the sacred sanctuary. Bishops Bagrat and Arshak, who are in the NSS isolation cell, issued a statement about this. "It was interesting to see in the first ranks of the marchers, still high-ranking clergymen, who had the reign tattooed on their foreheads as a fox mark, who were standing behind the police ranks, with confused and confused looks. It is obvious that they also understand that they have chosen the path of self-destruction and self-denial, becoming puppets in the hands of a mischievous puppeteer, who will soon sacrifice them too to his bloodthirsty idol of hatred and enmity. The walls of the Cathedral have seen many vandals, they saw this too (all of them crumbled to dust) and in that sense, December 18 will remain one of the shameful and shameful pages of our recent history. In the face of this shameful image, we particularly admire our pilgrims and the courageous attitude of the people of faith, which proved once again that the sense of identity cannot be killed in an Armenian person, regardless of the severity of the persecution. On behalf of us and our other imprisoned spiritual brothers, Saints Michael and Baptist, we express our loyalty to the Patriarch of All Armenians and the Enlightener's Throne, and our support to the military and devoted spiritual class and the people. With special warmth, we pray to Fr. Vrtanes. For Baghalyan's speedy recovery. May our Lord keep the Holy Etchmiadzin Motherland intact and unshakable, our kissable and wounded homeland and people, so that the magic departs from our lives, the fog is rejected, the darkness disappears, the evil does not abound, the despairs are persecuted and the almighty hand of the Lord reigns."

US Ambassador to Turkey and Special Representative to Syria Tom Barak spoke about the developments in the region and Turkey-US relations during the conference organized in the Arab Emirates. According to Turkish Anadolu, US Ambassador to Ankara Tom Barak said that the crisis in Turkey-US relations can be resolved within 4-6 months. He emphasized that there is an extraordinary friendship between Trump and Erdogan. According to the ambassador, although Turkey is the biggest ally in NATO, it is not respected by Europe, and Europe does not want to include Turkey in the European Union. Tom Barak stressed that in the future Turkey-Syria and Turkey-Azerbaijan energy corridors will be very important. Referring to the establishment of peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia, the ambassador expressed hope that the border between Turkey and Armenia will be opened.

The Mother See of Saint Etchmiadzin strongly condemns on December 4, the diplomat of the Mother See, His Grace T. Arshak Archbishop Khachatryan's arrest and detention imposed on him by the court. Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin issued a statement about this. "This action is an expression of the recently unleashed repression against the Church and the continuation of the process of political persecution against the clergy. Arresting high-ranking clerics on trumped-up charges is another manifestation of the government's anti-church politics and hate speech against clergymen. The Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin demands immediate termination of Fr. Illegal persecution of Archbishop Arshak Khachatryan and the rest of the imprisoned churchmen and to restore their violated rights," the message says.