Arsen Kharatyan

Arsen Kharatyan
Languages	Armenian, Russian, English
Ethnicities	Armenian
Dialects	Eastern Armenian
Relatives	Hranush Kharatyan

Former presidential advisor to Nikol Pashinyan[1], Founder, Civil Contract Party of Armenia[2], Founder and Editor in Chief, AliQ Media[3].

Georgia bans the entry of a prominent Armenian journalist who founded a Georgian-Armenian media outlet

Georgian authorities have barred Aliq Media founder Arsen Kharatyan from entering the country, reportedly detaining him for hours at Tbilisi airport before deporting him.

KHARATYAN: I have no doubt that this entry denial aka deportation is political, which ultimately means that current Georgian authorities are either afraid of people like me or have patrons from Moscow or Baku telling them to “clear up the space” before the [Georgian] elections. //

Last week Kharatyan was blocked while traveling from Armenia to Georgia. This latest incident happened after he arrived from Luxemburg.

Kharatyan lived in Georgia for 5 years and founded a media outlet there. At one point he was Nikol Pashinyan's foreign relations adviser.

Why was he blocked? Sources say Kharatyan planned to open an opposition TV station in Georgia so the pro-Russian owner of the ruling party decided to stop him.

Source: https://oc-media.org/founder-of-georgian-armenian-media-outlet-barred-from-entering-georgia/