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Armenia has called on international organizations to get involved in the situation along the border with Azerbaijan, where Yerevan says three civilians were killed and two wounded by Azerbaijani gunfire on September 24.
Police in Yerevan used force early on September 12 to push scores of demonstrators out of a central street they were blocking to protest a recent electricity price hike.
Hundreds of people have occupied a key street in central Yerevan in renewed protests against a recent electricity price hike in Armenia.
The trial date for a Russian soldier suspected of killing an Armenian family of seven has been set.
The Armenian government says it will use money from the sale of one of the country's largest power-generating facilities to subsidize a new increase in the price of electricity.
Activists gathering in the central square of the Armenian capital, Yerevan, this week pledged to keep up the pressure on authorities to reverse their decision to raise electricity prices next month.
Dozens of people protesting against rising electricity tariffs have gathered on a central square of the Armenian capital, Yerevan.
Armenia has made publics parts of the proposed constitutional changes that would transform the current national political system into a parliamentarian form of government.
The Russian owned firm that owns Armenia's electricity grid has been fined $126,000 for what state regulators in Yerevan have described as a violation of consumer rights.
Armenian police have removed protesters from an avenue in central Yerevan occupied by demonstrators protesting against electricity price hikes.
Protesters in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, campaigning against electricity price hikes have issued new demands to authorities.
Thousands of antigovernment demonstrators in the Armenian capital continue to protest on Yerevan's central Baghramian Avenue despite calls by police to leave the avenue.
Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian has vowed financial help to Armenians to deal with a planned electricity price hike that has sparked protests mainly in the capital.
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.
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