A senior European Union diplomat urged the Armenian authorities on Thursday to properly investigate a spate of violent attacks on opposition activists which have heightened political tensions in Armenia.
The Armenian police guarded Russia’s military and diplomatic facilities in Gyumri on Friday one day after clashing with local residents protesting against a deadly shooting spree allegedly perpetrated by a Russian soldier.
Hundreds of angry people clashed with riot police outside the Russian consulate in the Armenian city of Gyumri late on Thursday on the second day of protests against the killing of a local family allegedly committed by a Russian soldier. (UPDATED)
The European Union allocated on Thursday about 10 million euros ($12.4 million) in fresh assistance to Armenia’s central and local governments as well as civic organizations.
The European Union does not exclude that a new agreement with Armenia considering the South Caucasus country’s commitments to an emerging Russian-led trade bloc may be signed in the near future, according to a Brussels representative in Yerevan.
Russian Ambassador Ivan Volynkin expects the current internal political developments in Armenia to have no major impact on the country’s foreign policy, including its decision to join the Moscow-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) beginning next year.
Dozens of angry young women rallied in Yerevan on Thursday to protest against government plans to cut maternity benefits paid by the state in Armenia.
Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian and businessman Gagik Tsarukian met on Tuesday to discuss preparations for an upcoming joint anti-government rally planned by their political parties and two other groups critical of President Serzh Sarkisian.
At least 150 Iraqi Yazidis who have taken refuge in Turkey are ready to relocate to Armenia on a permanent basis, a leader of the Armenian Yazidi community said on Tuesday.
Dozens of young specialists are resigning from Armenia’s state-run universities and research institutes in order to be able to opt out of a controversial national retirement plan introduced by the government.
President Serzh Sarkisian has added his voice to concerns about the plight of Iraq’s Yazidi community targeted by Islamist militants and told the Armenian government to provide them with more humanitarian aid than was initially planned.
The National Assembly gave the green light over the weekend to the relaunch of a controversial reform of the national pension system that has been initiated by the Armenian government.
Deputies from Armenia’s leading opposition parties scuttled on Wednesday a parliament session that was expected to result in a relaunch of the government’s controversial pension reform.
More than 100 employees of the Finance Ministry have reportedly been laid off as a result of its recent controversial merger with the Armenian government’s tax collection agency.
The Armenian government on Wednesday denied growing allegations that it has ordered employers to ensure that their workers do not exercise their legal right to opt out of a new and controversial pension system.
An Armenian pressure group campaigning against a highly unpopular pension reform on Wednesday accused the government of forcing public sector employees not to opt out of a new national retirement plan which is being introduced by it.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) has added its voice to condemnations of government plans to erect a monument in Yerevan to Anastas Mikoyan, an Armenian-born Soviet leader who played a part in Joseph Stalin’s massive purges.
The four main parliamentary parties challenging President Serzh Sarkisian reportedly agreed over the weekend to continue their joint political activities after the formation of a new Armenian government.
Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian scoffed at various reforms implemented or promised by the Armenian authorities at the weekend, saying that they are only leading the country to ruin.
Opposition leaders accused the Armenian government on Tuesday of backtracking on its pledge to stop enforcing an unpopular pension reform that was effectively overturned by the Constitutional Court almost a month ago.
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