Armenian lawmakers will start formally discussing this week a controversial government bill aimed at combatting domestic violence, deputy parliament speaker Arpine Hovannisian said on Monday.
A public utilities regulator has approved a second water tariff rise within just over a year sought by a French company that became Armenia’s single operator in late 2016. This time, however, the increase will be subsidized by the Armenian government for a year.
The state human rights ombudsman, Arman Tatoyan, has asked Armenia’s highest court to stop the government from charging the parents of public school students for textbooks provided to them.
Amid a continuing lack of interest shown by opposition parties, the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) dominated local elections held in 69 communities across the country at the weekend.
Police in Armenia used force on Monday to neutralize a man who burst into a kindergarten and took one of its children hostage.
Armenia’s government has not abandoned its ambitious plans to build a new nuclear power station after the eventual closure of the aging plant at Metsamor, President Serzh Sarkisian indicated on Friday.
The European Union is doing its best to finish preparations for a landmark agreement to deepen its ties with Armenia, the head of the EU Delegation in Yerevan, Piotr Switalski, said on Tuesday.
Agriculture Minister Ignati Arakelian insisted on Wednesday that objective market trends, notably a sharp rise in Armenia’s exports of livestock, are responsible for the increased retail prices of meat in the country.
Hundreds of teachers and students of a rundown Armenian school boycotted classes on Tuesday to again demand urgent repairs of its facilities.
Russian will remain a “foreign language” in Armenia despite government plans to improve young Armenians’ knowledge of it, Education Minister Levon Mkrtchian said on Friday.
Prime Minister Karen Karapetian again made clear on Tuesday that he wants to retain his post after President Serzh Sarkisian’s final term in office ends in April.
Armenia’s government will encourage ethnic Armenians living abroad to relocate to their historical homeland in an effort to address its demographic problems, President Serzh Sarkisian said on Monday.
Hundreds of firefighters, forestry workers and civilians battled a massive wildfire in central Armenia for the fourth consecutive day on Wednesday.
Just weeks after participating in U.S.-led military exercises in neighboring Georgia, Armenia avoided sending troops to similar multinational wargames that began there on Sunday.
Minister for Emergency Situations Davit Tonoyan said on Thursday that his agency may receive new and more powerful firefighting equipment after this month’s wildfires that burned hundreds of hectares of forests in Armenia.
The mayor of an Armenian village affiliated with the opposition Yelk alliance on Wednesday accused the family of his pro-government predecessor of illegally privatizing land that belonged to the local community.
A mass shooting in an Armenian village, which left four people dead, was the result of an unpaid debt, a leader of Armenia’s Yazidi community claimed on Wednesday.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities were hunting on Tuesday for a man who killed four people and wounded seven others in a village about 50 kilometers west of Yerevan.
An investment fund set up recently by three dozen wealthy Russian entrepreneurs of Armenian descent will start financing business projects in Armenia this autumn, a senior government official in Yerevan said on Tuesday.
The Armenian authorities are looking into ways of alleviating severe damage inflicted by hailstorms on farmers in dozens of villages this summer, Agriculture Minister Ignati Arakelian said on Monday.
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