The governor of Armenia’s central Aragatsotn province, Sergei Movsisian, has gone on vacation following the arrest of his close aide charged with illegal drug possession.
Riot police made eight arrests on Friday as they clashed with angry meat vendors in Yerevan protesting against the renewed enforcement of a government ban on home slaughter of livestock.
Yerevan’s municipal administration fired 18 drivers of public buses on Tuesday just hours after they and dozens of their colleagues went on strike to demand higher pay.
Armenia’s total public debt has doubled to over $12.6 billion during Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s time in office, official statistics show.
