[ last updated 14:09 ] In a move certain to be linked with the approaching presidential election, the Armenian government approved on Thursday a 60 percent surge in modest pensions paid to hundreds of thousands of elderly citizens.
[ last updated 14:11 ] Armenians pay more for fixed-line phone services than residents of not only neighboring countries but the United States, according to new research presented in Yerevan on Thursday.
[ last updated 14:12 ] Dozens of teachers and other staff were briefly evacuated from a school building in central Yerevan on Thursday after what turned out to be a false bomb alert.
[ last updated 14:08 ] “Haykakan Zhamanak” reports that former President Levon Ter-Petrosian visited on Wednesday the Vayots Dzor region together with leaders of the Armenian Pan-National Movement (HHSh), the Hanrapetutyun party and the Aylentrank movement.
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