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Gyumri Mayor Fires Predecessor’s Daughter Over a Tiff
"On Feb. 5 a city hall employee went to the school and announced that Samvel Balasanyan said after these incidents, write your resignation letter...Read More »
Medicine Will Be More Expensive in Armenia After Joining Customs Union: Paper
There will be an 8–10% increase in the price of medicine after Armenia joins the Customs Union, reports local daily Haykakan Zhamanak.Read More »
Prosecution Ignores Case of Death of 3.5-Year-Old Child: Attorney
Complaints of the legal successor to the victim in the case of 3.5-year-old Artashes Sedrakyan have reached the Court of Appeals, but...Read More »
Nairit Plant Employees Protest Unpaid Wages Outside President’s Office
Hundreds of Nairit Plant employees today marched from the Armenian government building to the presidential residence, asking for a particular time...Read More »
Law on Military Service Amended for Oligarchs’ Children: Former Education Minister
Amendments to the RA Law on Military Service allowing Armenian citizens studying abroad to defer their military service on a bail of 8.5 million AMD cannot...Read More »
Armenia Leader in South Caucasus in 2014 World Press Freedom Index
"Moldova, Georgia, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan all enjoy a significant degree of pluralism and relatively little state censorship," reads the report.Read More »
Yerevan Metro Employees Join Rising Protests Against Pension Reform
The controversial law, which entered into force on Jan. 1, 2014, stipulates that about 5–10% of the monthly wages of workers born after 1974 will be deducted for pension contributions... Read More »
Armenian Village Mayor Withdraws Permission to Mining Company to Build Tailing Dump
Hakob Mkrtchyan, head of the Melikgyugh rural community in Aragatsotn marz (province), yesterday called a special council meeting to discuss the construction of... Read More »
Opposition Parties to Launch No-Confidence Motion Against Prime Minister
The four parliamentary parties not part of the ruling coalition today will decide on launching a motion of no confidence against Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan...Read More »
Former Armenian Political Prisoners to Spend Night Outside City Hall in Memory of March 1 Victims
Nikol Pashinyan and Sasun Mikaelyan, board members of an initiative called Civil Contract and former political prisoners, will spend the night of Mar. 1–2 outside...Read More »