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The Armenian government today appointed the new provincial governors of Lori, Gegharkunik and Vayots Dzor. Gnel Sanosyan (a member of the Civil Contract party) was appointed Gegharkunik Governor. Trdat Sargsyan (a member of the My Step movement) was appointed Vayots Dzor Governor. Andrei Ghukasyan (a member of the Civil Contrac...

Afraid of losing their jobs, employees of the Alaverdi Copper-Molybdenum Plant took to the streets in this small industrial town some160 kilometers north of Yerevan today demanding that the negative findings of a recent environmental study be thrown out. Almost the entire staff of the plant, owned by the Armenian Copper Program...

Sasna Dzrer member Pavel Manukyan has been released from trial detention after paying AMD 1 million ($2,060) bail. Manukyan, who was wounded during the 2016 Yerevan police building seizure, told reporters that he would like to visit the doctors who treated him and his son, who also participated in the attack. Manukyan was one o...

The Armenian government today allocated AMD 25 million ($51,500) to obtain anti-retroviral drugs to treat HIV patients. The drugs will go to the National AIDS Prevention Center in Armenia. The government also allocated AMD 12 million to purchase anti-tuberculosis drugs. ...

Artsakh war veteran Arayik Khandoyan (aka Lone Wolf), a member of the Sasna Dzrer group that seized a Yerevan police building in 2016, died today after apparently suffering a heart attack. Hetq received the news from Khandoyan’s compatriot Varuzhan Avetisyan, who learnt of Khandoayn’s death from friends who had gathered in a Gy...

Artsakh war veteran Arayik Khandoyan (aka Lone Wolf), a member of the Sasna Dzrer group that seized a Yerevan police building in 2016, died today after apparently suffering a heart attack. Hetq received the news from Khandoyan’s compatriot Varuzhan Avetisyan, who learnt of Khandoayn’s death from friends who had gathered in a Gy...

Today, U.S. Ambassador to Armenia Richard M. Mills, Jr., was pleased to announce an increase in U.S. assistance funding for Armenia. The United States recently provided more than $14 million in additional foreign assistance resources for initiatives in Armenia following the political transition, and in the coming year the U.S. ...

The Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) has released a statement today saying that while it does not oppose holding snap parliamentary elections, in theory, the best time to do so would be in May or June of next year, and not this December as proposed by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The HHK argues that it will take a few month...

Armenia’s Central Electoral Commission today designated Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) member Martun Grigoryan to replace Feliks Tsolakyan as MP representing the 11th electoral district. Yesterday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan appointed Tsolakyan as Minister of Emergency Situations. Grigoryan was the HHK runner-up...

Armenian Minister of Education and Science Arayik Harutyunyan today attended the launch of a mobile kindergarten in the Gegharkounik community of Drakhtik. Harutyunyan told the assembled crowd that it’s been proven that children attending pre-school do better when they enter first grade and that the current Armenian government ...