The Armenian government has still not acted to stop scores of young specialists from leaving state-run universities and research institutes because of a controversial pension reform implemented by it.
A pro-government youth activist who led fellow students attacking and verbally abusing journalists last December has been appointed as deputy head of one of Armenia’s leading state-run universities.
Utility regulators formally approved on Tuesday a 10 percent increase in the price of electricity supplied to Armenian households, ignoring protests from the country’s leading opposition groups and angry demonstrators.
Law-enforcement authorities said on Friday that they are investigating reports that a deputy chief of Yerevan’s police department illegally interfered in a criminal case involving one of his relatives.
Armenia’s state human rights ombudsman, Karen Andreasian, on Tuesday condemned police in Yerevan for breaking up a demonstration against an imminent rise in electricity prices with violence and mass detentions.
The Armenian government on Wednesday denied growing allegations that it has ordered employers to ensure that their workers do not exercise their legal right to opt out of a new and controversial pension system.
Armenia’s state utility regulators have announced plans to raise the price of electricity for households by more than 10 percent one year after sanctioning an even sharper increase in the key energy tariff.
More than a 100 students of state-run Armenian universities rallied outside key government buildings in Yerevan on Monday in protest against a sizable increase in tuition fees paid by them.
Yerevan Mayor Taron Markarian reversed his controversial decision to significantly raise the prices of public transport in the Armenian capital on Thursday, bowing to pressure from scores of mostly young activists who demonstrated against it for almost a week.
In a move reflecting the higher price of Russian natural gas imported to Armenia, the municipal authorities announced on Thursday a more than 50 percent surge in the cost of public transport in Yerevan.
A German surgeon has again arrived in Armenia to operate on young people still suffering from serious burns sustained in the explosion of hundreds of gas balloons during an election campaign rally in Yerevan last year.
A senior representative of the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) on Friday strongly condemned the possible sale of more Armenian energy assets to Russia’s Gazprom gas monopoly.
About two thousand apricot farmers blocked a major highway in Armenia’s southern Ararat province on Tuesday to demand that wholesale buyers raise the price of their produce.
The mayoral election campaign in Yerevan officially drew to a close on Friday, with the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) and its opposition challengers making the last pitch for votes in various parts of the capital.
Armenia’s main political groups challenging the government can win the forthcoming municipal elections and appoint an opposition-affiliated mayor of Yerevan, a leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) claimed on Friday.
Several young activists of the Armenian National Congress (HAK) were assaulted by a larger group of men while campaigning for the opposition party led by former President Levon Ter-Petrosian in Yerevan late on Monday.
One of the eight candidates in the Armenian presidential race remained on hunger strike for a ninth consecutive day on Tuesday, insisting on his demands for President Serzh Sarkisian’s resignation.
Former Environment Minister Vartan Ayvazian insisted on Friday that he did not demand a hefty kickback from a U.S. mining company and was unjustly fined by a U.S. federal court.
Armenia’s state human rights ombudsman, Karen Andreasian, on Friday defended his cautious reaction to deadly violence at a restaurant in Yerevan that has sparked a public outcry and led to the resignation of an influential pro-government parliamentarian.
Justice Minister Hrayr Tovmasian on Friday praised environmental activists campaigning for the preservation of a public park in Yerevan but warned them against attempting to dismantle kiosks controversially built there.
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