Traders selling various goods in small shops and markets have rallied in Yerevan to protest against a sharp increase in the key tax paid by them.
Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinian on Wednesday pledged to slightly scale back the impending significant increase in public transport fees which could trigger protests in the Armenian capital.
Armenia’s government pointedly declined to react on Friday to the start of the trials in Azerbaijan of eight former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh and eight other Karabakh Armenian prisoners which human rights activists in Yerevan condemned as a travesty of justice.
Armenia has no plans yet to leave the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan said on Monday in response to Russia’s stern warnings about consequences of Yerevan’s bid to join the European Union.
The father of Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinian has landed him in yet another scandal by insulting owners of cheap cars and saying that on-street parking spots in the Armenian capital must be off limits to them.
Armenia’s recently established foreign intelligence agency is seeking direct access to state secrets which would further dilute the powers of the National Security Service (NSS).
A 71-year-old resident of Yerevan is facing charges carrying up to two years in prison after hurling an apple towards Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in an apparent protest against his policies.
The former executive director of Armenian Public Radio has decided to sue a state broadcasting watchdog that effectively fired him after he criticized Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian early this year.
A body overseeing state-funded broadcasters has admitted objecting to Armenian Public Radio’s critical coverage of the government years before replacing its executive director, Garegin Khumarian.
A body overseeing state-funded broadcasters has formally replaced the executive director of Armenian Public Radio who criticized earlier this year Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s statements on the conflict with Azerbaijan.
Air Arabia, the Middle East’s largest low-cost airline, is reportedly planning to sue the Armenian government following the collapse of their joint venture set up in 2021.
The Armenian government’s tax revenue fell well short of its target in the first half of this year despite continued robust growth of the domestic economy.
Armenia’s leading media associations on Thursday strongly condemned riot police for injuring at least a dozen journalists during Wednesday’s clashes in Yerevan with protesters demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation.
At least three people died and two others went missing on Sunday after rivers in Armenia’s northern Lori and Tavush provinces overflew their banks, leaving local settlements under water and washing away roads and a bridge.
A resident of Kirants on Thursday tried to set fire to part of his agricultural land which Armenia’s government has decided to cede to Azerbaijan along with other areas in and outside the Armenian border village cordoned by off police.
Police made at least 14 arrests on Monday as they confronted angry protesters trying to enter an Armenian border village that is losing part of its territory as a result of the Armenian government’s territorial concessions to Azerbaijan.
Police again blocked on Sunday the roads leading to a village in Armenia’s northern Tavush province that will be affected hardest by the Armenian government’s decision to cede several local border areas to Azerbaijan.
Residents of Kirants, a border village in Armenia’s northern Tavush province, met with the provincial governor Friday on the second day of their renewed protests against the transfer of a part of their community to Azerbaijan.
Police cordoned off a key square and adjacent streets in downtown Yerevan on Wednesday to prevent antigovernment protesters from approaching the venue of an international conference where Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian delivered a speech.
An Armenian cleric leading the weeklong antigovernment protests in Yerevan remained reluctant on Tuesday to name a candidate who he believes should replace Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
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