The Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) still hopes that its founder, businessman Gagik Tsarukian, will return to active politics ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections, a senior BHK lawmaker said on Wednesday.
The Armenian government moved on Friday to criminalize “illegal enrichment” of high-ranking state officials as part of its declared fight against corruption.
Armenia and the European Union said on Thursday that they expect to complete next year ongoing negotiations on a new agreement to deepen their political and economic ties.
A senior NATO official on Monday commented cautiously on implications of Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election for NATO’s relations with Armenia and other former Soviet republics.
Multimillion-dollar remittances from Armenians working abroad -- and in Russia in particular -- have continued to fall significantly this year, dragging down economic growth in Armenia.
President Serzh Sarkisian on Wednesday congratulated Donald Trump on his victory in the U.S. presidential election, expressing confidence that U.S.-Armenian relations “will continue to develop dynamically” during his tenure.
Poverty in Armenia is continuing to fall slowly but steadily despite relatively sluggish economic growth, the National Statistical Service (NSS) insisted on Monday.
Armenia is negotiating with Iran the price at which it can purchase natural gas from the Islamic Republic, according to Deputy Minister of Energy Infrastructures and Natural Resources Hayk Harutiunian.
The United States has “excellent” cooperation with Armenia in a number of areas, including in various peacekeeping efforts in which the South Caucasus nation “has proven that it is willing and able to contribute internationally,” according to a visiting Pentagon official.
Official Yerevan said on Monday that it is not worried about Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remark that Turkey can play a “positive role” in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process.
Prime Minister Karen Karapetian told the new head of Armenia’s State Revenue Committee (SRC) on Tuesday to ensure that tax officials stop harassing “law-abiding” entrepreneurs and simplify taxation procedures for all businesses.
Citing the need to boost its budgetary revenues, the Armenian government has decided to auction off a historic building in central Yerevan that houses its Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology.
The Armenian government dismissed on Thursday Suren Khachatrian, the governor of the southeastern Syunik province notorious for violent conduct.
The Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) on Wednesday called on its founder, businessman Gagik Tsarukian, to return to active politics and again lead the county’s second largest parliamentary force.
Economic growth registered in Armenia in the last few years is not fast enough to ease hardship and raise living standards, the newly appointed Finance Minister Vartan Aramian said on Tuesday.
The newly appointed Finance Minister Vartan Aramian has urged the government to prevent a further rapid increase in Armenia’s sovereign debt through greater fiscal austerity.
Russia has begun supplying Armenia with new weapons in line with multimillion-dollar defense contracts signed by the two allied states, the Russian ambassador in Yerevan, Ivan Volynkin, said on Tuesday.
Economy Minister Artsvik Minasian said on Friday that Prime Minister Karen Karapetian has offered him to take up another post in Armenia’s new government which is being formed at the moment.
The Armenian authorities hope that Russia will again cut this year the price of its natural gas delivered to Armenia, a senior official in Yerevan said on Thursday.
Prime Minister Karen Karapetian ordered the Armenian government on Thursday to root out what he called the embezzlement of budgetary funds set aside for government officials’ travel expenses.
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