Many commuters appeared to be heeding on Monday opposition calls to boycott a significant increase in the cost of public transport in Yerevan initiated by Mayor Tigran Avinian.
Production operations at Armenia’s largest mining enterprise remained disrupted for a fourth consecutive day on Monday due to a walkout by hundreds of its employees demanding a 50 percent pay increase and better working conditions.
Causing widespread outrage, Armenian law-enforcement authorities indicted and briefly arrested over the weekend a refugee from Nagorno-Karabakh who decried and disseminated a video of several foreigners signing an Azerbaijani song in Yerevan’s central square.
Armenia’s government risks plunging the country into widespread poverty with plans to seek its membership in the European Union, Russia said on Friday in yet another warning to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian announced on Friday that his government has extended a controversial deadline for mandatory income declarations which hundreds of thousands of Armenians must file with tax authorities.
Police used force against several opposition members of Yerevan’s municipal council on Friday during its ill-tempered session that discussed a significant increase in the cost of public transport initiated by Mayor Tigran Avinian.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian insisted on Friday that he did not deny or question the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey, responding to a wave of condemnation of his comments on the subject made late last week.
Senior law-enforcement and military officials spent more than four hours on Thursday answering questions from relatives of Armenian soldiers who went missing during the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, a U.S. legal think-tank, on Thursday joined Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s domestic critics in accusing him of helping Turkey deny the 1915 Armenian genocide.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and other government officials defended on Thursday the ongoing introduction of mandatory universal income declaration in Armenia which is due to be mostly completed by May 1.
Armenia remains ready to establish conventional transport links with Azerbaijan, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Thursday in response to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s latest demands for a land corridor through a key Armenian region.
Representatives of the European Union member states approved on Wednesday a proposal to extend the EU’s monitoring mission along Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan by two years.
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