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YEREVAN When Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian signed a Russian-brokered cease-fire in November to end the war with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, it created a tumultuous postwar crisis that has eroded public confidence in Yerevan s political establishment.
Opinion polls show the approval rating of Pashinian s government has fallen from about 60 percent in September 2020 to around 30 percent today.
Pashinian s allies faced with political upheaval and declining public confidence in politicians are now working to change the country s election laws ahead of snap parliamentary elections expected in June.
The 45-year-old Pashinian s My Step alliance is revamping parts of the Electoral Code that were put in place in 2016 by his predecessors, the Republican Party of Armenia (HHK), two years before the Velvet Revolution swept him into office.
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Bulgarian Taxpayers Paying For Officials Cheap Vacations
February 24, 2021 10:38 GMT
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SOFIA Remnants of a communist-era hotel and resort network that once provided subsidized vacations for millions of Bulgarian workers still exist.
But more than three decades after the collapse of communism, the legacy of Bulgaria s Soviet-style recreation stations is a perk enjoyed only by public officials and civil service employees.
The rest of the country Bulgaria s taxpayers must pick up the tab for maintaining what is left of the system at a cost of more than $11 million a year.
Those are the findings of a World Bank study that the Bulgarian government commissioned in 2018.
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