The new Prime Minister of Armenia may be elected already at a special session of the parliament, which is scheduled for May 1, the website of the National Assembly of the country reports. It has not yet been decided who exactly will be nominated for this position, but the protests in the country continue, writes the BBC. On Wednesday, locals ...

After almost two weeks of mass protests in Armenia, the prime minister and government resigned. Since April 13, mass protests have been held in Yerevan and other cities of the country against the appointment of Serzh Sargsyan as Prime Minister, who previously held the post of President of the country for 10 years.​ Support for the “velvet…

Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan resigned. Participants of thousands of demonstrations in Yerevan during the last days demanded his departure. According to the BBC, TASS and Interfax report on Sargsyan's statement with reference to the prime minister's press service. In his address, Sargsyan, who took office ...

Mass anti-government protests resumed in Yerevan and other cities of Armenia on Saturday morning. This is the ninth day of protests against the appointment of former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan as Prime Minister. Despite the arrest of hundreds of protesters in Yerevan the day before, hundreds of supporters of the opposition movement led by ...

In Yerevan, demonstrators opposing the new prime minister laid siege to the residence of the head of government, News.am reports. On Wednesday morning, a column of demonstrators walked unhindered past the parliament building and reached the doors of the Prime Minister’s residence on 26 Baghramyan Avenue. Here, the organizer of the protests, leader of the Civil Contract party, Nikol Pashinyan...

In the center of Yerevan (Armenia), an explosion occurred at a fast food restaurant Burger King on the evening of March 2, local time. As a result of the incident, 9 people were injured, all victims were taken to hospitals, Armenia Sputnik reports. “We heard a loud bang and quickly ran out of the restaurant,” the employee said...

The Russian language now has the status of a foreign language in Armenia, Minister of Education and Science of the Republic Levon Mkrtchyan said in an interview with TASS. According to the minister, “the only state language in Armenia is and will remain the Armenian language, since we are an independent, sovereign state.” "This…

In the capital of Armenia, protests several times escalated into clashes with the police. Several hundred people gathered on Khorenatsi Street in support of the opposition movement “Founding Parliament”, which seized the police building in Yerevan on July 17. Activists tried several times to break through the police cordon and threw…

Pope Francis, who arrived on a visit to Armenia, confirmed his attitude towards the massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the last century, calling it genocide and condemning this crime. In 2015, the pontiff already used the term “the first genocide of the XNUMXth century,” which...

Electric Networks of Armenia, owned by a Russian company, was fined $ 126. As stated by the Armenian authorities, the reason for this is the violation of consumer rights. The July 000 decision came after weeks of protests in Yerevan and other Armenian cities against ...