Hundreds of people took to the streets of Yerevan on Tuesday as the opposition minority in Armenia’s parliament asked the Constitutional Court to scrap a controversial pension reform that would force them to pay more taxes.
The government plans to put in place a nationwide system of mandatory medical insurance that should make healthcare far more accessible to Armenians, a senior official in Yerevan announced on Monday.
The Armenian parliament rejected on Wednesday an opposition proposal to freeze a controversial reform of the national pension system that will force workers under the age of 40 to pay more social security taxes.
The Armenian Court of Appeal on Monday upheld the lengthy prison term passed by a lower court on a former presidential candidate convicted of plotting to assassinate a rival.
Hundreds of mostly young Armenians again took to the streets of Yerevan on Thursday to protest against a controversial pension reform that will effectively lower their wages.
The government made clear on Monday that it will not roll back a controversial reform of the national pension system that has sparked protests by Armenia’s leading opposition groups and many young professionals.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) thwarted on Friday an opposition-initiated parliament debate on the government’s controversial reform of the national pension system fiercely opposed by many young and well-paid professionals.
Armenia still hopes to sign an Association Agreement with the European Union after deciding to join the customs union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, a senior Armenian diplomat said on Friday. (UPDATED)
An indoor market situated in a central Yerevan boulevard reopened on Monday after undergoing reconstruction described by many local architects and urban conservation activists as illegal.
An Armenian opposition lawmaker who posed a question to President Serzh Sarkisian about his alleged gambling habit at the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly earlier this week was greeted as a hero by her supporters as she returned to Yerevan on Saturday.
Armenia officially launched on Friday the construction of a new checkpoint at its border with Georgia as part of a $80 million modernization program which is mostly financed by the European Union and aimed at facilitating cross-border travel and commerce.
Vartan Sedrakian, a former Armenian presidential candidate, was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Monday for allegedly plotting to assassinate Paruyr Hayrikian, a veteran politician who also ran in the February 18 election.
Riot police clashed with about 100 angry activists and detained a dozen of them on Wednesday during an unsanctioned demonstration in Yerevan against Armenia’s accession to a Russian-led customs union.
Samvel Aleksanian, one of Armenia’s richest businessmen close to the government, rallied hundreds of his employees and other supporters on Monday in response to renewed protests against his controversial efforts to redesign Yerevan’s central covered market.
Five youth activists claimed to have been beaten up by unknown men over the weekend in what their leaders called a government-backed attempt to intimidate participants of a month-long sit-in outside the Yerevan Mayor’s Office.
Trial prosecutors demanded on Monday that a former Armenian presidential candidate be sentenced to 12 years in prison for plotting to assassinate Paruyr Hayrikian, a veteran politician who also ran in the February 18 ballot.
Russia’s Gazprom energy giant has expressed readiness to lower the price of its natural gas supplied to Armenia in return for gaining full ownership of the country’s gas distribution network.
Russia and Armenia gave a further boost to their defense cooperation on Tuesday with a new agreement that appears to facilitate continued Russian arms supplies to the Armenian army.
The man who confessed to shooting and wounding Paruyr Hayrikian insisted on Wednesday that he did not intend to kill the Soviet-era dissident who ran in Armenia’s recent presidential election.
A former Armenian presidential candidate charged with plotting to assassinate another hopeful received a major boost to his claims of innocence during his ongoing trial on Friday.
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