Politics

The government has developed a new tax package for the discussion of the National Assembly, and this initiative contemplates changes to support the collection of 101 billion drams in the budget in 2012. These changes mainly mean increasing tax loads. Let’s mention that during the session of the government on September 29 PM Tigran Sargsyan …

As we have already informed the government has submitted to the National Assembly a package of changes to the tax legislation, which anticipates increase of the tax load and increase of some of the defined taxes. Even the minister of finances Vache Gabrielyan confessed that this is going to happen, however it’s more like “rectification” …

Yesterday, the newly appointed Ambassador of the United States of America John Heffern presented his credential to President Serzh Sargsyan. The President of Armenia congratulated Ambassador Heffern on his appointment and expressed hope that he would use his diplomatic experience to further deepen relations between the two countries. Serzh Sargsyan underlined that our relations with the …

According to well-informed sources recently ANC leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan and the leader of the Prosperous Armenia party Gagik Tsarukyan have met. Let us recall that during his October 1 rally Ter-Petrosyan stated that they should more take into account the opinion of the Prosperous Armenia and that the “RPA is a group of opportunists and …

According to our information, during yesterday’s one and a half hour meeting of the executive body of the RPA the attendees discussed the matter of deflection of the Prosperous Armenia from the ruling coalition. This matter has become sharper after the statements of Gagik Tsarukyan and Robert Kocharyan. Let us remember that Kocharyan didn’t exclude …

An event that took place in Yerevan not long ago showed once again the attitude of our “military colleague” towards Armenia and the servility of the government and their strong ability to be humiliated by the Russian brothers. A certain Sergey Averchenko, a councilor of the Russian Embassy in Armenia presented the expectations of the …

The statements made by the councilor of the Russian Embassy in Armenia Sergey Averchenko may be considered as the successive diplomatic scandal. He presented the expectations of the Russian Federation from Armenia to the Secretary of the National Security Council Arthur Baghdasaryan during the discussion on “Russian-Armenian strategic cooperation” organized by the president of Union …

“Currently Russia is working with everyone and the Russians are in good relations with Serzh Sargsyan, Robert Kocharyan and Levon Ter-Petrosyan. They are friends with everyone. Americans are the same. All parties will try to play their games,” said Karabakh committee member Ashot Manucharyan to our correspondent in answer to the question which political power …

In the interview of famous chansonnier, Ambassador of Armenia in Switzerland Charles Aznavour given to Les Nouvelles d’Armenie is still being actively discussed in Armenia. In his interview Ambassador Aznavour addressed sharp critics to the situation in Armenia. Specifically, concerning emigration he said, “What is the main reason for emigration from Armenia? Nothing is being …

“We have gathered the heads of village communities to discuss serious issues. These people may think that the crisis is behind the door,” stated Serzh Sargsyan during the first conference of village communities referring to the speech by Jean Michel Hap, the head of Armenian office of the World Bank and added that nobody said …