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Police Use Force to Push Mandatory Pension Opponents Away from State Building (PHOTOS)
Members of an initiative against the new pension reforms and hundreds of supporters today once again protested in the streets of Yerevan...Read More »
Opposition MP on Sale of Vorotan Hydro Plant and Lessons in Speaking Armenian
Armenian government resorted to a play on words to sell the Vorotan hydro plants without debate in parliament: the hydroelectric power plants were...Read More »
Residents of Yerevan District Speak with President But Concerns Not Addressed
Residents of Yerevan's Kond district early morning on Wednesday protested outside Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan's mansion, demanding...Read More »
7000 People Without a Job Because of Drop in Number of Students in School: Principal
According to a government decision, 7,000 jobs have been cut in the field of general education since Jan. 1, a principal of one of the schools in Ararat marz (province) who...Read More »
Armenian Civil Servants Can Get an Apartment for $731 Per Square Meter
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan at a cabinet meeting today announced a new program for providing civil servants with apartments.Read More »
Vanadzor: No Electricity, Lack of Adequate Heating, and Bread Prices Doubled
There is no gas in most parts of the city, electricity often shuts down, drinking water is frozen, schools have stopped classes, hospitals are admitting only...Read More »
Kurds, the Armenian Question, and Öcalan’s Statement: An Interview
"The struggle of the Kurdish people for freedom and the atonement of the grief of the Armenian people have coincided in the struggle of citizens sharing the same rights in...Read More »
Armenian Official Unable to Say Whether Gazprom Fulfilling its Obligations
The Government of Armenia is no longer accumulating a debt in its relations with the Russian company Gazprom, Public Services Regulatory Commission chief...Read More »
Large Volume of Ammunition Found at Armenian Actor’s Karate Federation
A large quantity of ammunition were found at 17 Moskovyan Street in Yerevan, where Armenian actor Gor Vardanyan's karate federation is located.Read More »
Ruling Coalition Votes Against Creating ‘Gas Commission’
Members of the ruling coalition today voted against a proposal by the four non-ruling parties to create a commission to investigate the gas contracts signed with Russia last year.Read More »