Dozens of employees of Armenia’s nuclear power station at Metsamor who quit their jobs last week agreed to return to work on Monday after accepting a 10 percent increase in their wages offered by the government.
The administration of the Metsamor nuclear power plant began formally accepting on Friday job termination requests from dozens of its employees after failing to ensure significant pay rises demanded by them.
More than 160 employees of the Armenian nuclear power station at Metsamor look set to quit their jobs on Friday after failing to secure significant pay rises from the plant administration.
One Armenian and two Azerbaijani soldiers have been killed in continuing skirmishes around Nagorno-Karabakh and along Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan.
About 100 people picketed the main government building in Yerevan on Thursday to protest and demand urgent government action against continuing non-combat deaths in Armenia’s armed forces.
Military authorities have launched a criminal investigation into the non-combat death of yet another Armenian soldier, which highlighted their continuing failure to root out chronic abuses within the army ranks.
Armenian state regulators on Wednesday pledged to investigate a more than 20 percent surge in the retail prices of sugar which will further raise the cost of life in the country and could hamper government efforts to curb inflation.
A Yerevan prosecutor who was found dead at a cemetery in the northern Armenian city of Vanadzor on Tuesday most probably committed suicide, law-enforcement authorities said on Wednesday.
The leadership of Armenia’s national bar association has accused police in Yerevan of illegally detaining and manhandling two of its members defending opposition activists arrested last week.
A senior government official urged the Armenian Apostolic Church on Wednesday to be more active in countering the spread of non-traditional religious organizations in the country, which is seen by many in Armenia as a threat to national unity.
The Armenian government has told Russian authorities to stop encouraging and helping families in Armenia to migrate to Russia, Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian revealed on Friday.
Armenia’s state forestry agency reported on Tuesday a sharp increase in the scale of illegal logging in the country, blaming it on the increased cost of natural gas.
Researchers from Armenia’s National Academy of Sciences claim to have found high concentrations of toxic substances in agricultural produce grown near two mining enterprises in the northern Lori province.
Public transport between Yerevan and other regions of Armenia was again effectively brought to a halt on Thursday ahead of a fresh rally held there by the main opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK).
A U.S. businessman of Armenian descent was formally remanded in custody on Saturday pending trial on pedophilia charges which he strongly denies.
A senior Armenian prosecutor called for a toughening of legal punishment for pedophilia on Wednesday amid an under-age sex scandal involving an Armenian-American businessman who was until recently an advisor to Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian.
Armenia’s main opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) held simultaneous protests in capital Yerevan and three provinces on Friday demanding the release of its members currently imprisoned for their roles in the 2008 post-election unrest.
The Russian management of Armenia’s national rail network on Wednesday reassured workers of a railway depot in the northern Lori province that none of them will lose their jobs as a result of its upcoming restructuring.
More than a hundred angry employees of Armenia’s two largest chemical enterprises demonstrated on Thursday to demand the payment of their back wages for the past several months.
Armenia on Thursday repatriated an Azerbaijani captive and received the body of one of its citizens who died in Azerbaijani captivity last month, in an exchange facilitated by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
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