Maneh Tandilyan, recently appointed as Armenian Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, says she’s stepping down from the post due to disagreements she has regarding the mandatory funded pension component of the pension system with other government members.
The Tashir Police Department (Lori Province) has issued an arrest warrant for Metzavan Mayor Seryozha Vardanyan on charges that he embezzled AMD 4.5 million from the municipal coffers from 2013 to 2018 by registering phony jobs on the books and pocketing the wages.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan today called on the Special Investigation Committee (SIS) to get to work and finally find out how ten people were killed on the streets of Yerevan on March 1, 2008.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has appointed Hakob Hakobyan Chief Compulsory Officer of Armenia.
Elected to the Yerevan Municipal Council in 2017, Batoyan is a longtime advocate for the rights of people with disabilities.
Workers at the Lusakert Poultry Plant, in the Kotayk community of Nor Geghi, have temporarily called off their strike to protest the firing of sixty company employees over the past few days.
In his disclosure, Deputy Prime Minister also announced a stock with a price of 5,023 drams. This should actually be 502.3 million AMD, since it’s his share of Ardshinbank CJSC, where he owns 1.000056% of shares (the charter capital of the bank is 50,227 million AMD).
Narek Babayan has been appointed Head of the Ministry of Economic Development and Infrastructures’ State Property Management Committee.
Armenian President Armen Sarkissian has sent a congratulatory message to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the occasion of Russia Day, which commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) on June 12, 1990.
Before being elected prime minister, anti-government protest leader and MP Nikol Pashinyan met with Sarkissian on April 26 and later posted on his Facebook page that Sarkissian had showed him documents confirming that he had renounced his British citizenship in 2011.