Farmers in a village in Armenia’s southeastern Vayots Dzor province disrupted classes in a local school on Thursday in a fresh protest against local distilleries’ failure to pay for grapes purchased from them last year.
Exports of Armenian fruits and vegetables as well as their purchases by domestic food-processing companies are continuing to increase rapidly, a senior Armenian government official said on Tuesday.
An Armenian police officer killed by anti-government gunmen occupying a police station in Yerevan was buried on Wednesday in a funeral service attended by senior law-enforcement officials and parliamentarians.
One police officer was killed and two others wounded early on Sunday when members of an Armenian radical opposition group seized a police station in Yerevan, demanding the release of its leader arrested last month for allegedly plotting an armed revolt.
An unusually powerful hailstorm swept through parts of Armenia late on Sunday, destroying crops in about two dozen villages and stripping most local residents of their main source of income for this year.
Dozens of residents of a village in Armenia’s central Kotayk province again blocked a highway on Tuesday in protest against government plans to divert water from a nearby reservoir used for irrigating their agricultural land.
About 100 farmers marched to the presidential palace in Yerevan on Thursday after the Armenian government again failed to ensure that they are paid for grapes purchased by a private winery last fall.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian called a halt to the controversial construction of a new irrigation canal in Armenia over the weekend amid continuing protests by farmers fiercely opposed to it.
Villagers Again ProteHundreds of residents of a big village in central Armenia again blocked a highway on Friday in continuing angry protests against government plans to divert water from a river serving as their main source of irrigation.
Seasonal labor migration of men in an Armenian village has left women in control of the local administration body. For two years now all members of the local council in Antarashen are women.
Two more people died from swine flu complications in Armenia on Wednesday, raising to 10 the total number of fatalities caused by an outbreak of the dangerous H1N1 virus.
The Armenian Ministry of Health said on Tuesday that an epidemic of acute respiratory infections in the country has passed its peak, while reporting another death apparently caused by the H1N1 virus.
Hundreds of people, most of them children, have been hospitalized in Armenia following an outbreak of influenza that has forced the Armenian government to extend school holidays.
The Armenian government has again postponed the country’s transition to mandatory digital broadcasting by local TV and radio stations which has prompted concerns from press freedom groups.
Armenia’s agricultural output rose by nearly 12 percent to 931.4 billion drams ($1.94 billion) in January-November 2015, greatly contributing to continued economic growth in the country, Agriculture Minister Sergo Karapetian said on Monday.
Twenty-eight men serving life sentences in Armenia’s largest prison began a fresh hunger strike on Monday to demand that law-enforcement and judicial authorities review their cases.
The Armenian opposition on Tuesday accused the Republican (HHK), Prosperous Armenia (BHK) and Dashnaktsutyun parties of obstructing vote recounts in many polling stations where it claims to have witnessed serious fraud during Sunday’s constitutional referendum.
An Armenian soldier was killed by Azerbaijani forces in Nagorno-Karabakh early on Friday just hours after the United States, Russia and France urged the conflicting parties “in the strongest possible terms” to avoid ceasefire violations.
Seven inmates of a prison in Yerevan have joined a jailed critic of the Armenian government in refusing food to protest against law-enforcement authorities’ decisions not to set them free on parole.
The Constitutional Court of Armenia on Tuesday ruled that journalists are not obliged to disclose their confidential sources of information in cases not involving heavy crimes and the need to protect a person.
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