The shops were crazy on New Year’s Eve in Armenia, despite complaints about price increases here in 2017. Yet the country witnessed another dramatic increase in prices from the very beginning of 2018. This time there was an increase in customs duty on poultry, butter, vegetable oil...
Marriage is declining in Armenia while divorce is on the rise, according to the RA Statistical Committee (formerly National Statistical Service) report issued in 2017. Those who do choose to get married are waiting longer to take the plunge.
Since 2010, marriage rates have...
Ampop Media has studied and represented the dynamics of under-5 mortality and birth anomalies between 2006 and 2016. According to this study, the number of children born with congenital malformations in Armenia increased by 30% over a 10-year period. This means that in 2006 every 71st...
Civil disobedience protests have closed central streets in the Armenian capital, Yerevan. The protests grew especially intense on Monday, April 16, when thousands of protesters took to the streets, brought traffic to a halt.
Why?
People are protesting the announcement made on Saturday by...
The synthetic rubber plant “Nairit” was opened in 1936 nearby Yerevan. It supplied 34 kinds of chemical products to the Soviet Union and Soviet-bloc countries in its most prolific years. “Nairit” was the engine of the Soviet Armenia’s economy and industry providing jobs...
