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Recently there were serious discussions on credit issues in the National Assembly of Karabakh. Most of credits that were provided in 1998-2000 and recent years were not returned. According to Karabakh regional development minister Armo Tsaturyan this is a result of the fact that these credits were given without any guarantee. It is worth to …

The donations received during this year’s telethon organized by the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund will be dedicated to the “Artsakh Renaissance” project. The project consists of three stages and its goal is to develop three regions in Artsakh: Martakert, Martuni and Hadrut. This year, the money collected will be used to reconstruct the region most affected …

During the Social Issues conference held by the National Assembly of Karabagh, participants talked about the low level of medical aid in the regions where there are villagers. According to Minister of Health of Karabagh Zoya Lazaryan, the ministry plans on making nearly 200 visits to the 170 villages. At the present, the regional medical …

The National Assembly of Karabagh continues to discuss the 2006 state budget plan during different conferences. According to Minister of Health of Karabagh Zoya Lazaryan, there will be a rise in salaries for health ministry workers (instead of the average salary this year-32,081 drams-this will rise to 41,720 next year). By emphasizing the importance of …

Recently members of the National Assembly of Karabakh held discussions on founding an institution for human rights protection in Karabakh. It is worth to mention that this position is still free, they have no candidate for it yet. During the discussions it turned out that the budget of 2006 would not provide any money for …

During the discussions of Karabakh National Assembly commission on foreign affairs issues, members noted that foreign policy campaign was very important for them. According to Karabakh foreign affairs deputy minister Masis Mailyan, although the expenses intended for this purpose will be more than 19 million dram in 2006 then this year, they haven’t written anything …

Recently the National Assembly of Karabakh started to lead discussions on the budget of 2006. According to Karabakh’s Finance and Economy minister Spartak Tadevosyan, this budget doesn’t provide increase in salaries for state officials. The salaries of state employees will be increased by 40-50%. The minister informed us that tax incomes will be increased in …

We all know that the people living in Karabagh during the Soviet era used to talk Russian and business was done in the same language too. During the post-war era, people started to talk Armenian. There used to be 3-4 Russian schools out of the ten in Stepanakert; currently, none of the 12 schools is …

On October 30, people were pretty energetic in the rehabilitating Varanda village of the Martuni district of Karabagh, where there are currently 17 families. For the first time, the residents of Varanda had come to one of the village homes (temporarily given to the school) to vote for their community head and members of the …

Today marks opening of a new building for the first instance court in the city of Gyumri located in the region of Shirak. The opening is in the framework of the “juridical reforms program”. The old building was damaged during the earthquake in 1988. Ever since then the court of Gyumri and the economical court …