Citing an increase in the number of military casualties due to the ongoing war in Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia’s Ministry of Defense has proposed raising the size of monthly compulsory payments to the Army Insurance Fund.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s two largest towns again came under rocket attack on Wednesday as deadly shelling of civilian areas in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict zone intensified following the collapse of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s authorities have prevented food shortages, largely ensured continued electricity supplies and kept paying salaries and pensions despite large-scale hostilities around the Armenian-populated region that broke out late last month, a senior official in Stepanakert said on Thursday.
Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanian visited Moscow again on Monday as fierce fighting reportedly continued in Nagorno-Karabakh despite the Armenian-Azerbaijani ceasefire agreement reached at the weekend.
The prime ministers of Russia, Armenia and two other Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) member states discussed on Friday the coronavirus pandemic and its economic consequences for the Russian-led trade bloc at a meeting in Yerevan overshadowed by the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
A Yerevan court allowed investigators late on Friday to arrest Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman leading the opposition Prosperous Armenia (BHK), on vote buying charges rejected by him as politically motivated.
Armenia’s Minister of Education, Culture and Sports Arayik Harutiunian dismissed growing opposition demands for his resignation and defended his policies on Wednesday.
Teachers in Armenia queued up at policlinics on Wednesday to undergo mandatory coronavirus tests ahead of the reopening of the country’s schools scheduled for September 15.
An opposition member of Yerevan’s municipal council on Monday accused Mayor Hayk Marutian of failing to deliver on his promises to completely revamp and modernize the city’s collapsing system of public transport.
Armenia has accused Azerbaijan of violating international humanitarian law with its treatment of an Armenian army officer who was taken prisoner late last week.
One person was killed and two others injured in an explosion that partly destroyed an apartment building in Yerevan early on Wednesday.
A group of residents of the resort town of Jermuk joined scores of environmental activists in Yerevan on Thursday to stage a protest in front of the central government offices against the construction of a gold mine at Amulsar that they claim will jeopardize the country’s eco-system.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday again urged Armenians to strictly follow anti-epidemic rules amid what he described as relative stability in the rate of coronavirus infection in the country.
A prosecutor in a high-profile trial in Armenia has demanded lengthy prison terms for members of an armed group that seized a police base in capital Yerevan in 2016 and made political demands.
The Armenian government approved on Thursday 277 million drams ($570,000) in additional financial aid to four villages in Tavush province damaged during last month’s deadly fighting at a nearby section of Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan.
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The National Assembly will debate and almost certainly pass on Tuesday further legal amendments designed to complete the controversial dismissal of three of the nine members of Armenia’s Constitutional Court.
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