Avoiding another confrontation with angry parents of fallen soldiers, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and other senior officials did not visit Armenia’s main military cemetery on Tuesday to mark the second anniversary of the devastating war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
At least 22 people were detained in Yerevan on Wednesday evening as riot police broke up a demonstration against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine organized by a group of Russian expatriates living in Armenia.
The Armenian government approved on Wednesday a roughly 7 percent increase in pensions and other benefits which is designed to mitigate the impact of higher-than-projected inflation in the country.
Authorities in Yerevan want to have more instruments to clamp down on street trade in the Armenian capital that continues to thrive despite a formal ban.
Inflation in Armenia continued to rise in June, reaching an annual rate of 10.3 percent, government data shows.
Armenia’s outgoing Prosecutor-General Artur Davtian has called on the government to consider regulating content posted online, saying that Armenian-language Internet platforms are increasingly used for hate speech, drug trade and other illegal purposes.
Opposition leaders accused the European Union of turning a blind eye to what they see as Armenian government efforts to control the judiciary and stifle dissent as they again rallied supporters outside the EU Delegation in Yerevan on Monday.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have refused to prosecute the head of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s security detail who reportedly assaulted two journalists during a recent opposition demonstration in Yerevan.
Armenian opposition leaders on Thursday urged Moscow to stop doing business with Armenia’s government as they rallied supporters during Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s visit to Yerevan.
Mirroring exchange rate fluctuations in Russia, Armenia’s national currency, the dram, has strengthened significantly during the continuing war in Ukraine.
Armenian opposition leaders accused the European Union on Tuesday of turning a blind eye to the excessive use of force by police against protesters demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian again claimed to have turned Armenia into an established democracy on Friday as the country's main opposition groups continued daily demonstrations demanding his resignation.
Riot police on Thursday refrained from mass arrests of participants of daily opposition demonstrations in Yerevan aimed at forcing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to resign.
The Armenian police attempted to arrest their former chief on Friday as he participated in continuing anti-government protests organized by the country’s leading opposition groups.
Senior pro-government lawmakers on Thursday urged the Armenian military to call up men participating in continuing opposition demonstrations aimed at forcing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to resign.
Armenia’s leading opposition alliances began on Monday coordinated small-scale demonstrations in Yerevan in preparation for mass protests aimed at toppling Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Armenia has started paying for natural gas imported from Russia in rubles, Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian said at the end of a visit to Moscow late on Thursday.
Armenian economic growth will slow down considerably and inflation will remain high this year due to knock-on effects of Western sanctions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, according to the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA).
The already slow pace of vaccinations in Armenia has continued to drop in recent weeks amid falling numbers of new coronavirus cases reported by health authorities there.
Citing regional and global spillovers from the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised downwards its forecast for Armenia’s economic growth from 4.5 percent to 1.5 percent this year.
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