Growing Economic Activity Despite Falling Wages: Press
The unemployment rate has also been rising. Thus, according to government data, the official number of registered unemployed persons was 79 000 in the first seven months of the year- a growth of 10 percent compared...
Armenian Grape Farmers Allow Village School to Resume Classes
Classes in the local kindergarten, according to Kostanyan, have also been resumed but will also be disrupted in case of the winery's failure to pay the farmers' money – a total of 140 million drams...
Wife of Arrested Yerevan Man Accuses Police of Tampering with Their Testimonies
- My husband demanded a lawyer as soon as he was detained, but he wasn't assigned one. Officers told him to 'just sit down and write; it will be better for you this way.' According to the indictment,...
European Court Issued 20 Verdicts Against Armenia in Last 3 Years
In the last 3 years, the European Court of Human Rights issued 20 rulings against the Republic of Armenia and ordered the state to pay a total of 335,000 Euros to the winning applicants, minister-chief of Government staff ...
Winery Promises to Pay Boycotting Grape Farmers' Money Within Two Weeks
We don't believe their promises, and we do not intend to send our children to school until the money issue is resolved,” Kostan Stepanyan told our reporter, adding that the governor had come to urge the farmers to end...
Grape Farmers Keep Children Off School to Protest Against Unpaid Money
About two months ago, the farmer went on, PM Abrahamyan met with the villagers and reassured them that the issue would soon be resolved; his promise, however, has yet to be fulfilled...
New Compulsory School Subjects, More 'Nonsense to Stuff Children's Heads With'
The “National Songs and Dances” subject was introduced in the lower grades of several basic schools back in 2014, and now Armenia's Education Ministry wants to expand the pilot program and make ...
NKR Oppositionist’s Attackers Released Under Amnesty
The proposal to declare an amnesty on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Nagorno-Karabakh's independence was approved by NKR's National Assembly on August 25...
Armenian Authorities Demand Income Tax From Local Charitable Organisation
According to a statement published on the NGO's official website Monday, the Center has already applied to Armenia's highest officials, including the president and the prime minister, for tax exemption...
Russian Programmer Freed from Armenian Custody
Recall, Sergey Mironov was detained late last week by Armenian security forces upon his arrival at Yerevan's Zvartnots airport from Moscow. In a subsequent statement, Armenia's police said the Russian ...
Armenian Farmer Says He'd Sooner Throw Grapes Away Than Sell to Wineries
The farmer added that he intended to sell this season's 3-4 tonnes of produce at the market and throw whatever is left away. “Throwing away is more profitable than [selling to wineries],” Zakaryan said...
Criminal Case Over Karabakh Veteran's Beating Delayed in Hopes of Amnesty, Lawyer Claims
During the last hearing, which was held in September, 2015, lawyer Muradyan had filed a motion for the recusal of prosecutor Yuri Aghayan, claiming that the latter had “failed to notice the blatant and ...