Armenia’s accession to the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) will have no negative impact on the development trends in the country’s educational sector, according to a government official.
Armenia’s main airline has accused the Russian state air traffic control agency of causing it serious financial damage with what it considers baseless claims resulting from Western economic sanctions against Russia.
Armenia’s underpaid schoolteachers appear to have gained little from a more than 30 percent increase in the average public sector salary which took effect this month.
As many as seven women have been killed and more than a dozen others seriously injured in Armenia over the past year as a result of domestic violence, according to local women’s rights activists.
More than 100 Syrian nationals studying at universities in Armenia received government scholarships on Friday in what Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian called the latest in a series of measures to help thousands of ethnic Armenian refugees from Syria.
Despite its government’s stated efforts to combat corruption, Armenia again ranked lowly in an annual global survey released by Transparency International on Wednesday.
U.S. Ambassador John Heffern defended on Friday a security alert that was issued for American citizens in Armenia following violent protests in Libya and Egypt against a privately made film that ridicules Islam.
