An Armenian and an Azerbaijani citizen were repatriated on June 8 in an operation carried out with support of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The handover took place at the international border of Armenia, in the town of Ijevan. RA citizen Zaven Karapetyan, who had...
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Last week the RA National Assembly (NA) elected lawyer Vahe Grigoryan judge of the Constitutional Court of Armenia (CC) with 99 votes in favor and 23 votes against. Two days after his election, on June 20, Grigoryan announced the crisis situation in CC.
Grigoryan’s grounding is as...
With the decision of Prime Minister (PM) Nikol Pashinyan Zareh Sinanyan has been appointed High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs. It is a new post created as a result of Government structural amendments.
The Office of High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs will replace the former...
RA Government pays great attention to funding of higher education targeted at lowering interest rates of student loans. According to the Government decision on March, 2019, the annual rate of student loans was decreased to 9% instead of previous 12%.
The state will subsidize 2% of the...
One of the most unexpected news of the past week perhaps was resignation of the Minister of Justice Artak Zeynalyan, about which he made a statement on June 7. Lilit Makunts, head of the “My Step” faction of the National Assembly, informed the reporters that the faction had...