Armenia’s Prosecutor General’s Office says it's taking a look at the details appearing in an August 24 Hetq article charging former Syunik Governor Surik Khachatryan with building a private house in Yerevan with no construction permit.
Supporters of Shant Harutyunyan, the leader of the Tseghakron political party arrested on November 5, 2013 for organizing a march in Yerevan entitled “The Revolution of Values” and sentenced to six years imprisonment, demonstrated outside the Prosecutor General’s Office today and called for his release.
Activists opposed to the Amulsar mine project gathered in front of the Government Building in Yerevan this morning, some dressed as endangered butterflies found on lands on the mine site.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called for a baby boom in Armenia during a cabinet meeting today to review a proposal by Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Maneh Tandilyan to raise the one- time payment to parents having a second child from 50,000 to 150,000 drams.