Ara GALOYAN

It is hard to say what is the biggest economic news of the week. The laurel of priority has two nominees – the appointment of the RA Prime Minister and devaluation of the AMD. For the consumer there is also the third one – inflation. Let’s get back to the appointment of Tigran Sargsyan and …

The most serious economic expectation continues to be the inflation and devaluation of the AMD. The Armenian media almost every day raise their concerns about the increase of prices of various goods – cigarettes, sugar and so on. On the other hand, the USD rate approached the threshold of 400 AMD – the psychological threshold. …

The economic week was strangely glutted both in terms of information and events. The most important event was unfortunately expected. The US government has long ago stated that it was going to cease the funding of the Millennium Challenge Corporation project in Armenia. They promised to cease and they did so. The Corporation was supposed …

Everything is pretty harmonic. The nature is becoming active together with spring. The political life is becoming active with electoral competition. The Armenian media is full of coverage on the Armenian elections and the foreign media is full of information concerning elections in France, the US, Latin countries, etc. readers compare those processes as the …

The main economic news of the week were quite controversial as it’s characteristic to this pre-election period. During this period usually lots of things become simple and noticeable. Unfortunately, a few people pay attention this and these developments vanish over time. But these developments prove the quality and productivity of governance. The economic week continued …

The Parliamentary elections already have their impact on the economy. According to the official statistics the lowest inflation rate was recorded in February. Official statistics will record deflation of u number of products. And this may be explained. In spite of the promises given by the RPA, many of the businessmen were nominated. The nominated …

Last week was another week for disappointment from the point of view of both economy and politics. It is normal that in the pre-election period everything must be viewed through the prism of elections. The expectations for appreciation of the national currency did not come true. Iranians did not spend huge cash flow in the …

During the Soviet times the intelligentsia used to have a unique policy. The members of this group of the society used to believe in that cordially too. The most well-organized group of the intelligentsia was the representatives of the Academy of Science and Yerevan State University. These groups of the society used to think that …

Last economic week was a week of tariffs. A lot of information was published about tariffs in Armenia. It was too much and very strange. In the beginning Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper published the interview of Armentel company general director Igor Klimko. In answer to the journalist’s question whether it is true that Armentel wanted to …

During this week the most unclear piece of information was the one published by the Russian media, according to which they are the cheapest electricity producers. It would be for sure because they have both gas and oil. In addition, they have big rivers too. Their hydro-electric stations are old and sometimes may go out …