In 2017-2018 academic year around 274 children in Armenia did not attend schools. While the current legislation states that every six-year-old child must exercise a 12-year education. Thus the current situation proves that the law defined by the RA Constitution is being broken.
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After the Velvet Revolution and change of government in Armenia in spring 2018, Armenia’s accumulative pension system also changed. On June 21, 2018, the parliament adopted the draft law “On Accumulative Pensions”. No amendments were proposed. From July 1, citizens in the...
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...
