Two members of Armenia’s government have visited border villages in the Syunik province whose residents have reported nightly gunfire from Azerbaijani army positions for more than a month.
Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party has made clear that it will block a parliamentary ethics inquiry into one of its senior lawmakers who insulted a journalist last month.
Pro-government and opposition lawmakers brawled in Armenia’s parliament on Tuesday after the main opposition Hayastan alliance announced that it has drafted legislation toughening punishment for anyone who denies or questions the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey.
Former Mayor Hayk Marutian and his opposition party have urged commuters to boycott the impending significant increase in public transport fees in Yerevan initiated by the current municipal administration.
The governor of Armenia’s central Aragatsotn province, Sergei Movsisian, has gone on vacation following the arrest of his close aide charged with illegal drug possession.
Riot police made eight arrests on Friday as they clashed with angry meat vendors in Yerevan protesting against the renewed enforcement of a government ban on home slaughter of livestock.
Yerevan’s municipal administration fired 18 drivers of public buses on Tuesday just hours after they and dozens of their colleagues went on strike to demand higher pay.
Armenia’s total public debt has doubled to over $12.6 billion during Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s time in office, official statistics show.
