Leader of the opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), MP Gagik Tsarukyan calls on the Armenian authorities to give benefits to university students and pay part of their tuition.
Parents of many students have become unemployed because of the coronavirus pandemic, and now they cannot afford paying for tuition, Tsarukyan underlined at a meeting with the PAP Student Council on Friday.
“How can a parent, who hasn’t worked for six months and can hardly make ends meet, pay for tuition especially when it has increased?” he said.
The PAP leader also recalled his June 5 statement that Armenia would be facing a famine in a few months, adding that some ruling facti...