While 27 MPs must pay into Armenia's new mandatory pension fund, the 104 others can do so on a voluntary basis. But so far, none have chosen this route.
Six married couples reside at the Nork Retirement Home in Yerevan. Four were married there.
In its first Anti-Corruption Report, the European Commission said corruption costs the European economy about US$160 billion a year.
Russia won the right to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, after the International Olympic Committee voted in 2007. According to an investigation by ABC-TV in the US, Russia was assisted by the criminal boss and heroin kingpin Gafur Rakhimov in beating out Austria and South Korea for the chance to serve as host.
Armenia’s Prosecutor General has asked Georgian authorities to hand over Ashot Sukiasyan to Armenian law enforcement.
Shaboyan pointed out the high cost of poultry feed in the cost equation, noting that feed is mostly imported. If the price of feed pushes up the price of eggs, it sometimes more cost effective to just import the eggs as well, Shaboyan argued.
As Hetq previously reported, about 1,400 tons of "super" fuel was imported the last time in 2008. However, this grade of gasoline can now be found in several gas stations in the country and especially the capital.
As compared to January 2013, a 15% increase in passenger flow was observed at the “Zvartnots” International Airport of Yerevan in the first month of 2014.
The vehicle march will be followed by a rally in Liberty Square from 4:00 to 5:30 pm, which, in turn, will be followed by a march on foot in the city center ending around 6:30 to 7:00 pm.
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Minutes ago, ruling Republican Party MP Gagik Minasyan declared that his party would vote against an initiative proposed by minority parliamnetary factions calling for the creation of an ad-hoc committtee to study Armenia's natural gas supply agreements and pricing.
Co-founder of the Talaat Committee (the Turkish “Hitler”), a backroom created by Ankara to export the denialist theses of Turkey to Europe and beyond, Dogu Perincek had appealed against a decision pronounced by the Swiss courts, fining him twice for his denialist statements.
The Armenian police have decided to take more than one hundred demonstrators who participated in various protest actions on December 2, 2013 to court and to fine them 50,000 AMD each. Yesterday, I also reported that the police had destroyed all video footage it had taken on that day.
Hakobyan said it was wrong not to include the country’s US$300 million gas debt in the budget> He argued that such a policy violated the law. Hakobyan added that many in the majority
Razmik was the only one willing to talk to me when I visited the prison, but only if I agreed not to photograph his face.
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