Representatives of Armenia’s government and opposition expect no further discussions on the country’s political situation caused by last year’s disputed presidential election and its deadly aftermath at the upcoming sessions of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE).
A senior banker in Armenia has insisted that despite an almost six-fold increase in the number of unreturned loans this year, the level of liquidity of commercial banks remains strong, which bodes well for the future of the country’s banking system.
A representative of Armenia’s Central Bank (CB) has ruled out that the introduction of a 100K Dram banknote on Monday increases inflation risks or forestalls an imminent devaluation of the national currency in Armenia.
Authorities in Armenia are working to boost the security of various government websites suffering increasingly damaging attacks by Azerbaijani and other hackers, a senior official said on Tuesday.
A young civic activist is facing criminal proceedings and the possibility of up to two years’ imprisonment for helping to trigger a scandal about the alleged sexual and other abuse at a Yerevan school for children with special needs.
The Armenian government could refrain from further attempts to empower tax authorities to deploy agents in large companies suspected of tax evasion, a senior official admitted on Wednesday.
Armenia can count on military support from fellow members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in case of a new war with Azerbaijan, the secretary general of the Russian-led defense alliance indicated on Thursday.
Armenia’s economy will likely contract by 12 percent this year and resume positive growth already next year, Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian said on Wednesday, presenting his government’s latest economic outlook.
The Zharangutyun (Heritage) party of former Foreign Minister Raffi Hovannisian said on Tuesday that it has decided to act more independently in the political arena after failing to get Armenia’s leading opposition forces to join forces.
Officials in Iran have offered to deliver nuclear fuel to Armenia’s Metsamor nuclear power station, an Armenian regional governor who visited the Islamic Republic recently confirmed on Tuesday.
