Amid continuing protests by meat traders and farmers Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian announced on Wednesday that he has delayed until July the entry into force of a ban on home slaughter of livestock in Armenia.
More than a hundred farmers and meat traders again rallied outside the prime minister’s office in Yerevan on Monday to protest against a ban on home slaughter of livestock imposed by an Armenian government agency.
Health Minister Arsen Torosian on Tuesday defended his decision to shut down small maternity hospitals across Armenia, while agreeing to make concessions to some of them following protests staged by medics and other local residents.
A group of women who had lost their newborn babies in disputed circumstances rallied outside Armenia’s Office of Prosecutor-General on Friday to demand the arrest of five individuals accused of illegally organizing adoptions of Armenian children by foreigners.
A law-enforcement agency said on Thursday that it will press criminal charges against three officials arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of arranging illegal adoptions of Armenian children by foreigners.
In an annual telethon broadcast from Yerevan and Los Angeles, a pan-Armenian charity has raised about $10 million that will be spent on fresh infrastructure projects in Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia.
The Armenian Ministry of Health has called for a new 6 percent income tax that would finance the planned introduction of public health insurance covering the country’s entire population.
Armenian authorities say they have launched a criminal investigation into the “numerous” cases of foreigners illegally adopting Armenian children.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian challenged Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to support his vision of a Nagorno-Karabakh settlement that would be considered acceptable by all parties to the conflict as he addressed the second Paris Peace Forum in the French capital on Tuesday.
A new medical center providing radioisotope-based diagnosing and treatment to cancer patients has opened in Armenia amid a growing demand for the service that thus far Armenians have been able to get in the region only by traveling to neighboring Georgia.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday defended his recent decision to effectively double the salaries of ministers and other senior government officials and insisted that it was not made secretly.
A senior government official accused Armenia’s largest mining company on Thursday of trying to hush up a toxic waste spill that contaminated a river flowing through the southeastern town of Kapan.
Investigators have brought fresh corruption charges against Mihran Poghosian, a former senior Armenian official who fled to Russia after being first indicted in Armenia early this year.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian met with senior government and law-enforcement officials on Wednesday for further discussions on the future of a controversial gold mining project in Armenia disrupted over a year ago.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian cited the need for further evaluation of possible mining operations at Armenia’s Amulsar gold deposit on Friday after a Lebanese-based consulting firm raised more questions about its environmental audit of the project.
A major gold mining project launched in Armenia by a Western company poses only “manageable” environmental risks, a senior law-enforcement official who has investigated it insisted on Monday.
Environmental activists and zoologists in Armenia have been raising concerns after dozens of white storks drenched in some greasy substance and unable to fly have been spotted walking around several rural communities in the Ararat valley.
A senior Armenian official has spoken in favor of Yerevan ratifying a Council of Europe convention dealing with the rights of women and gender equality in spite of a campaign launched by some detractors claiming risks to family values.
Armenia’s government urgently hired a passenger jet on Friday to evacuate more than 100 Armenian tourists stranded in an Egyptian Red Sea resort because of a Yerevan-based travel agency.
About 100 Armenian tourists were left stranded in an Egyptian Red Sea sort on Thursday due to the cancellation of charter flights to and from Egypt organized by a Yerevan-based travel agency.
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