Thousands of Russians, many of them tech professionals, have migrated to Armenia since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing tightening of Western sanctions against Moscow.
Armenia’s national currency, the dram, has weakened against the U.S. dollar by more than 5 percent since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Armenia’s energy regulator on Tuesday raised the retail prices of natural gas by an average of 4.1 percent, a move that should further increase the cost of living in the country.
Greenhouse owners in Armenia have warned that rising prices of electricity and natural gas will further push up the cost of their agricultural produce and could also drive many of them out of business.
Health authorities pledged on Thursday to again boost capacity at Armenia’s hospitals to cope with the latest surge in coronavirus cases driven by the Omicron variant.
The Armenian government has sought to justify a widely anticipated increase in the retail prices of natural gas in the country.
Nearly 16,000 residents of Nagorno-Karabakh displaced by the 2020 war with Azerbaijan continue to live in temporary shelters or homes, a senior official in Stepanakert said on Tuesday.
The Armenian government has set up a task force that will coordinate work on a railway that will connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia’s Syunik province.
Armenia’s Russian-owned gas distribution network said on Thursday that it will ask utility regulators to raise the retail prices of natural gas in the country.
Food prices in Armenia soared by an average of almost 13 percent in the past year, according to official statistics.
Dozens of employees of Armenia’s leading hospital for infectious diseases, including COVID-19, demonstrated outside it on Monday as they risked losing their jobs.
Supermarkets and other shops in Armenia continued to provide or sell plastic bags to customers on Wednesday five they days after such items were legally banned.
Public utility regulators raised electricity prices in Armenia by an average of about 10 percent on Wednesday amid higher-than-expected inflation.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian has caused another scandal after reportedly telling journalists to stand up when seeing him in the National Assembly building in Yerevan.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals on Friday upheld lengthy prison sentences handed down to key members of an armed anti-government group that seized a police base in Yerevan in July 2016.
Armenian and Azerbaijani forces have again exchanged fire along some sections of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border amid lingering tensions between the two states.
Angry relatives of Armenian soldiers remaining in Azerbaijani captivity have taken to the streets to protest against what they see as offensive comments made by parliament speaker Alen Simonian.
Armenia will temporarily bar entry of residents of South Africa and seven other regional states in a bid to protect its population against the new coronavirus variant Omicron, Health Minister Anahit Avanesian said on Monday.
It is in the interest of Armenia that the process of delimitation and demarcation of its Soviet-era border with Azerbaijan should start as soon as possible, a senior pro-government lawmaker in Yerevan said on Tuesday.
A number of mostly fringe opposition groups in Armenia staged protests in Yerevan on Monday, expressing their concern about what they described as a potentially risky border demarcation with Azerbaijan and demanding that the government reveal details of the process expected to begin soon.
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