Two weeks after the country largely ended its lockdown, the number of coronavirus cases has shot up and the government is preparing to use a repurposed sports hall to treat patients.
The Council of Europe convention was opposed by right-wing and social conservative groups, which objected to provisions calling for sex abuse education for school children.
Armenian ruling party members have been involved in two physical altercations in recent days. They say they are just responding to verbal provocations.
The legislation allows authorities to freeze property acquired with suspicious funds. Now they want access to bank and insurance information without a court order.
The parliament pushed through the law in an emergency session, after opposition members boycotted in protest of the government's irregular efforts to get it passed.
The effort is part of a long-standing desire to reverse the country’s population decline. But to many, it sounded like the government was blaming women for infertility.
Armenia went farther than most of Iran’s neighbors, closing its border for two weeks. Azerbaijan, meanwhile, was the only country to have not closed its border with Iran at all.
The legislative efforts come after long struggles between the government and a hostile media, much of which is controlled by figures close to the former regime.
