Politics

The Management Board of the World Bank approved the strategy of partnership with Armenia for 2009-2012 to the amount of $670-700mln, Head of Yerevan Office of the World Bank Aristomene Varudakis told reporters on June 11. According to him, the World Bank will issue $545mln credit to Armenia under the program for 2009-2012. Varudakis said …

On June 15 co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s Monitoring Committee John Prescott and Georges Colombier will arrive in Yerevan on a three-day visit. During the visit the Co-rapporteurs will be hosted by RA President Serzh Sargsyan and Chairman of the RA National Assembly Hovik Abrahamyan. The Co-rapporteurs are expected to …

The speaker of the Armenian parliament Hovik Abrahamyan will be present at the discussion on the issue of Armenia at the PACE scheduled for June 24. This was announced by the head of the Prosperous Armenia faction Naira Zohrabyan during yesterday’s Q&A session. According to our information, Hovik Abrahamyan is going to have a long …

“The members of the fact-finding group must publish the materials they have found so far because it is a public demand,” said Heritage faction secretary Larisa Alaverdyan during yesterday’s press conference. She said that when she was fired from the ombudsman’s position she was deprived of the opportunity to submit the second report to the …

Following the city council elections certain events took place in Armenia, which can change the configuration of the political system in Armenia. It is not about the small conflicts within the government but the possible change of the configuration of the opposition. Following the elections, as well as in the result of the ANC’s policy, …

A day ago during his meeting with Armenian businessmen in Moscow the prime minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan spoke about the tax package presented by the RA government. In this regard he said, “There are 16.000 companies functioning in Armenia but we are interested in the activity of almost 100 of those. In these companies …

“Serious discussions are going on. The project is still in the elaboration stage but the rumors that are being circulated by the media are raw materials,” yesterday told our reporter the RA Minister of Justice Gevorg Danielyan when answering the question on the possibility of amnesty. We reminded Danielyan the recent statement of the former …

During his meeting with Armenian businessmen in Moscow several days ago the premier of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan expressed a positive opinion about the monetary policy of Armenia. In his opinion the abrupt devaluation of the MAD on March 3 was a positive thing to do. Moreover, he stated that the financial sector hasn’t suffered much …

According to our information, the law initiative on granting amnesty, which is the main topic of discussion in the corridors of the parliament house, will be brought to the parliament from the president’s office on June 15-18. According to our interlocutors, who are pro-government MPs, the authorities have set this date and will not change …

During yesterday’s extraordinary session of the Central Electoral Commission a decision was made to register Vachagan Khurshudyan from the Prosperous Armenia party proportional electoral list as deputy of the National Assembly. The reason of replacing the MP from the PA is the fact that recently the head of the NA commission on Euro integration affairs …