The Armenian government on Thursday decided to lavishly reward state antitrust regulators for slapping a hefty fine on the country’s leading fuel-importing company accused of violating competition rules.
The Armenian government said on Tuesday that it has helped the Armavia national airline to settle a bitter financial dispute with Yerevan’s Zvartnots international airport that threatened to disrupt flights to and from the country.
The formation of an electoral alliance between the Zharangutyun (Heritage) party and another major opposition group is still not a forgone conclusion, one of their leaders said on Thursday.
Armenia’s national airline warned on Wednesday that it could file for bankruptcy because of its continuing financial dispute with Yerevan’s Zvartnots international airport managed by an Argentine operator.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian appeared to have moved closer on Friday to forming an electoral alliance with a new opposition party led by former prominent member of the Armenian National Congress (HAK).
The political parties led by Gagik Tsarukian and another well-known Armenian businessman announced on Wednesday their decision to jointly contest the upcoming parliamentary elections.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) said on Monday that it stands ready, in principle, to cooperate with Armenia’s second most important governing party led by businessman Gagik Tsarukian in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Armenians who failed to pay land and property taxes from 1996 through 2007 will have their debts completely written off, according to a bill approved by the government on Thursday.
A once powerful organization uniting thousands of Armenian veterans of the Nagorno-Karabakh war has pledged to support President Serzh Sarkisian in the upcoming national elections four years after effectively backing his most formidable political foe, Levon Ter-Petrosian.
Energy and Natural Resources Minister Armen Movsisian predicted on Thursday that Russia’s Gazprom giant is likely to again avoid raising the price of its natural gas for Armenia this year.
The leader of the Orinats Yerkir Party, a junior partner in Armenia’s governing coalition, insisted on Wednesday that it will have “quite weighty presence” in the new parliament, dismissing widespread speculation to the contrary.
Vartan Oskanian, Armenia’s former longtime foreign minister, announced on Tuesday his decision to return to the political arena by joining the country’s second most important governing party three months before crucial parliamentary elections.
Armenia’s struggling agricultural sector will steadily grow in the coming years after a more than 14 percent expansion registered in 2011, Agriculture Minister Sergo Karapetian said on Friday, promising greater government assistance to farmers.
Armenia has ended its participation in NATO’s peacekeeping mission in Kosovo eight years after sending troops to the former Yugoslav region, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian confirmed on Wednesday.
The Armenian government has no plans yet to revise downward its macroeconomic outlook for this year despite possible spillover effects of Europe’s financial troubles on the country, Finance Minister Vache Gabrielian said on Thursday.
Armenia is successfully implementing a five-year government plan to modernize its armed forces with long-range weapons and other hardware, the country’s two top military officials insisted over the weekend.
A parliament deputy from Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) suggested on Friday that mass resignations of BHK members in the southern Ararat province were engineered by President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK).
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) is unlikely to form an electoral alliance with other major opposition parties and is confident about winning seats in the next parliament, one of its leaders said on Thursday.
The government will launch soon a new program of judicial reforms designed to address a serious lack of public trust in Armenia’s courts, Justice Minister Hrayr Tovmasian announced on Wednesday.
Europe’s current economic woes are unlikely to lead to a sharp drop in international prices of base metals and thus hit Armenia’s most important source of export revenue, Economy Minister Tigran Davtian insisted on Tuesday.
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