The Armenian Ministry of Health has called for a new 6 percent income tax that would finance the planned introduction of public health insurance covering the country’s entire population.
Armenian authorities say they have launched a criminal investigation into the “numerous” cases of foreigners illegally adopting Armenian children.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian challenged Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to support his vision of a Nagorno-Karabakh settlement that would be considered acceptable by all parties to the conflict as he addressed the second Paris Peace Forum in the French capital on Tuesday.
A new medical center providing radioisotope-based diagnosing and treatment to cancer patients has opened in Armenia amid a growing demand for the service that thus far Armenians have been able to get in the region only by traveling to neighboring Georgia.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday defended his recent decision to effectively double the salaries of ministers and other senior government officials and insisted that it was not made secretly.
A senior government official accused Armenia’s largest mining company on Thursday of trying to hush up a toxic waste spill that contaminated a river flowing through the southeastern town of Kapan.
Investigators have brought fresh corruption charges against Mihran Poghosian, a former senior Armenian official who fled to Russia after being first indicted in Armenia early this year.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian met with senior government and law-enforcement officials on Wednesday for further discussions on the future of a controversial gold mining project in Armenia disrupted over a year ago.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian cited the need for further evaluation of possible mining operations at Armenia’s Amulsar gold deposit on Friday after a Lebanese-based consulting firm raised more questions about its environmental audit of the project.
A major gold mining project launched in Armenia by a Western company poses only “manageable” environmental risks, a senior law-enforcement official who has investigated it insisted on Monday.
Environmental activists and zoologists in Armenia have been raising concerns after dozens of white storks drenched in some greasy substance and unable to fly have been spotted walking around several rural communities in the Ararat valley.
A senior Armenian official has spoken in favor of Yerevan ratifying a Council of Europe convention dealing with the rights of women and gender equality in spite of a campaign launched by some detractors claiming risks to family values.
Armenia’s government urgently hired a passenger jet on Friday to evacuate more than 100 Armenian tourists stranded in an Egyptian Red Sea resort because of a Yerevan-based travel agency.
About 100 Armenian tourists were left stranded in an Egyptian Red Sea sort on Thursday due to the cancellation of charter flights to and from Egypt organized by a Yerevan-based travel agency.
The upcoming entry into force of a bill criminalizing illegal logging in Armenia will put the government in a much stronger position to stop the country’s deforestation, Environment Protection Minister Erik Grigorian said on Tuesday.
One year after the “Velvet Revolution” that brought Nikol Pashinian to power, most Armenians continue to support his government and remain optimistic about their country’s future, according to a U.S.-funded opinion poll.
In a tense weekend election, a candidate of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party narrowly failed to defeat the incumbent mayor of Abovian, a town that has long been a political stronghold of Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian.
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet again soon for further talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
Justice Minister Artak Zeynalian on Tuesday declined to comment on Monday’s blockade of Armenia’s courts initiated by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Armenia’s public healthcare sector may still be plagued by corruption despite the government’s anti-graft efforts, Health Minister Arsen Torosian admitted on Monday.
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