An Armenian lawmaker visiting Syria as part of a six-member parliamentary delegation to address the situation around Armenian-populated Kesab has spoken of the plight of its residents who were evacuated following last week’s attacks by Islamic militants.
The Armenian Ministry of Health suspended on Friday a controversial directive that required state-run policlinics in Yerevan to charge patients for some of the medical services provided by them.
Armenia stands by its decision to join a Russian-led trade bloc and expects the European Union to specify its approaches to further cooperation with the former Soviet country, a senior pro-government lawmaker said in Yerevan on Wednesday.
Two dozen Armenian anti-government protesters remained in custody and risked criminal charges on Wednesday one day after clashing with riot police in Yerevan.
Riot police clashed with youth activists and detained several of them on Tuesday amid continuing protests against a more than 50 percent surge in the price of public transport in Yerevan.
Syrians of Armenian descent have continued to take refuge in Armenia in recent months, raising to around 10,000 the number of such people currently living in their ancestral homeland, a government official in Yerevan said on Tuesday.
The former head and 12 other employees of Armenia’s state pension fund went on trial Tuesday on charges of embezzling large sums allocated for the payment of various social benefits.
Armenia’s largest vote-monitoring organization made a largely positive evaluation of Monday’s presidential ballot on Wednesday unlike other local observers.
Armenia’s presidential election can already be considered free and fair, the authorities in Yerevan declared on Monday evening amid fraud allegations made by at least one of the opposition candidates. (UPDATED)
Housing prices in Armenia rose only slightly last year despite faster economic growth and increased remittance inflows from abroad, a senior government official said on Friday.
Agriculture Minister Sergo Karapetian again made a case for the consolidation of Armenia’s modest land holdings on Wednesday, saying that is vital for sustainable development of the struggling agricultural sector.
Citing the worsening situation in Syria, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) said on Wednesday that it has decided to send cash, rather than food and medication, to ethnic Armenians remaining there from now on.
A government body tasked with supporting small business offered on Thursday to extend low-interest loans to ethnic Armenians from Syria who have taken refuge in Armenia and would like to start businesses there.
Prices of meat and some meat products have decreased in Yerevan markets in recent days in what may be a reaction to an apparent rise in the rate of slaughter of farm animals in Armenia.
Health authorities in Armenia said on Tuesday that they have coped successfully with an outbreak of anthrax that infected more than 30 people in a rural area last week.
Hospitals and other medical institutions across Armenia have systematically inflated the cost of their government-subsidized drugs in fraudulent practices that cost the state budget 1.5 billion drams ($3.7 million) last year alone, state regulators said on Friday.
Mikhail Bagdasarov, the Russian-Armenian owner of Armavia, has decided to sell Armenia’s national airline and is currently negotiating with potential buyers, a company spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
Armenia’s real estate market has seen some growth in recent months which local realtors link to a growing number of ethnic Armenians arriving from Syria amid escalating violence in the war-torn Middle Eastern country.
Armenia’s commercial banks have been refusing to open accounts for citizens of Iran and Syria, according to ethnic Armenians from the two Middle Eastern nations living in Yerevan.
The retail prices of bread in Armenia have increased by roughly 10 percent in the last two weeks following a surge in international prices for wheat and other cereals.
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