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Activists from the protest movement that has rallied thousands in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, against electricity price hikes say “suspicious people” have begun to harass members of the group and peaceful demonstrators.
The leaders of a protest against electricity rate hikes in Armenia say they have added more demands for the government to meet before they will lift their blockade of a main thoroughfare in Yerevan.
Thousands of Armenian protesters continued to block one of Yerevan’s main thoroughfares on June 26, a day after the government refused their demands to reverse a 16 percent electricity price hike.
The Armenian government has refused to reverse electricity price hikes, as protest rallies in the capital entered their second week.
Armenian security forces have refrained from another violent crackdown as demonstrators protesting against a hike in electricity prices blocked a central avenue in Yerevan for the fourth day running.
Russia owns Armenia's power-distribution grid, and Armenian consumers are furious about the way they are being treated by the firm when it comes to paying for electricity.
Armenians demonstrating against a hike in electricity prices are preparing for a third night blockading the capital's central avenue.
The little-known trio behind the large demonstrations in Armenia is relying on "the people" in their battle against an electricity price hike.
A standoff between riot police and demonstrators protesting a hike in electricity prices is blocking the central avenue in the Armenia's capital, Yerevan, for the third day running.
The Armenian police used force and water cannons to clear a demonstration in central Yerevan after a night of standoff with activists protesting against rising electricity prices.
Several thousand people have been protesting in the Armenian capital against rising electricity prices.
Though Kirk Kerkorian made billions of dollars in Hollywood and Las Vegas, more people will mourn his death in faraway Armenia than in the United States.
Two Armenian wrestlers and a coach are boycotting the upcoming European Games in Baku, dealing a blow to the notion that the event could help bring the bitter rivals a bit closer.
The long-standing enmity between Armenians and Turks is reverberating through an unexpected venue: the Russian soccer club Spartak.
A soccer player of Armenian origin is facing a large financial punishment for allegedly suggesting that the coach of Russian club Spartak, Murat Yakin of Turkey, has kept him off the first-string team because of his ethnicity.
Five leaders of an Armenian opposition group have been sent to pretrial detention.
U.S. television star Kim Kardashian and her family have arrived in Yerevan to mark the 100th anniversary of the massacre of ethnic Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
An Armenian opposition group calling for antigovernment protests on April 24 says police have detained several of its leaders and activists.
An Armenian opposition group calling for antigovernment protests on April 24 says police searched its offices and summoned its leaders for questioning.
The parents of a soldier who crossed into government-held territory from Azerbaijan's breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region say their son had asked for a transfer to another unit.
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