Several hundred citizens braved freezing temperatures to march through Yerevan in commemoration of International Human Rights Day.
The US court in Manhattan has accused 49 Russian diplomats and their spouses of fraudulently receiving a total of US$1.5 million in health care benefits designated for the poor and disabled, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Some thirty Armenian MPs have added their names to a public petition opposing the “mandatory” provision of a new pension system set to take effect on January 1, 2014.
Hetq asks its readers to send a clip of song or a statement encapsulating their thoughts regarding the issues of the day to Hetq’s Facebook page.
It was more important for Putin to stop Armenia signing an Association Agreement and to send a message to Ukraine than it was to get a real economic deal with Armenia. And I believe there are many in Yerevan who are hoping that the Customs Union project will collapse and they can eventually and quietly get back on the EU path.
Armenia’s National Assembly today passed a draft bill containing a number of changes to the mandatory individual pension law that goes into effect as of January 1, 2014.