"Iravunk" newspaper writes:
"Against the background of announcements about the increase in the price of transport and the boycott against it, the mayor of Yerevan, Tigran Avinyan, went on vacation.
He will return to work from January 27. But whether he will return, this is perhaps the question. Evil tongues say that he has come to the attention of Nikol Pashinyan's State Control Service.
It is very exciting what the PWS can discover. They say that there are many interesting episodes in the financial inflows and outflows of the PWS several questions at once.
First, he will complete the operation to make his loyal deputy mayor Armen Pambukhchyan the mayor.
And secondly, he will secure his personal interests by sacrificing Avinyan, who raised the price of "Zhogjan" transport. It is no coincidence that Nikol Pashinyan appeared in the subway yesterday.
So, it is not excluded that at the upcoming session of the government, he will pour "jug and swallow" on the head of the municipality, recording the existing problems in public transport.
Thirdly, it will show the changed Trump regime in the USA that it has also started a "chistka" by getting rid of the strong pro-Western liberal cadres of the government.