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Ruling Coalition Backs Out of Meeting on Pension Contributions
The ruling coalition — the Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) and Rule of Law (OEK) — will not take part in a special meeting at...Read More »
Public Defender’s Office To Be Given As Much Funding ‘As Is Necessary’
According to Armenia's 2014 draft budget,funds allocated to the Public Defender's Office will be cut. Read More »
Nikol Pashinyan on the Sole ‘Optimistic’ Point in Armenia’s 2014 Budget
"This is simply a desperate budget, Mr. Prime Minister. Now a question might arise: is there not a single point in that 1,200-page budget...Read More »
Ukraine ‘Saved’ Armenia’s Face: Armenian MP on Customs Union and 2014 Budget
During discussion of the 2014 state budget in Armenia's National Assembly today, MP Alexander Arzoumanian opined that it is a "hypothetical budget"...Read More »
40 New Homeowners Stormed a Yerevan Bank to Present their Demands
About 40 people who purchased apartments in newly built buildings in the Yerevan district of Davtashen at around 12 pm today went to the Artsakhbank...Read More »
Putin Urged Armenian President to Customs Union with KGB Dossier: Ukrainian MP
"Russian President Vladimir Putin during the last negotiations sat around the table, smiled, pulled out a dossier from the KGB archives from under the table...Read More »
Justice Minister Avoids Responding to Allegations of Police Violence
Asked by reporters today whether Shant Harutyunyan was subjected to violence, RA Minister of Justice Hrayr Tovmasyan said he visited Harutyunyan and...Read More »
Protestor Decides to Remove Stitches on His Mouth, End Sit-In
An Etchmiadzin man who two days ago sewed his mouth shut protesting outside the presidential palace with his wife and young children...Read More »
Majority of Armenian MPs Didn’t Participate in Karabakh Recognition Vote
A bill to recognize the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh was put to a vote in Armenia's National Assembly today.Read More »
40 Soldiers Poisoned in Ararat Military Unit: Newspaper
Mass poisoning has been recorded in a military unit in the town of Ararat, reports local daily Haykakan Zhamanak.Read More »