At an NKR government session held today, Mayor Vazgen Mikayelyan of Stepanaket, Karabakh, stated that the city municipality collected 597.7 million drams in revenues during 2008, or 87.7% of budget forecasts. This comprises a jump of 32.9% over 2007 figures.

Regarding construction work, Mr. Mikayelyan reported that the roofs of five residentail apartment buildings had been totally repaired, thirty-nine houses belonging to families of fallen war dead that had been bombed during the war had undergone capital reconstruction, and that repairs to several major arteries in the city hade been completed. Some eight apartments in building nine on Azatamartikneri Street had been allocated to families of those who died in the war whilst building twenty-one apartments in building twenty-five on Tigran Metz Street had been handed over to residents living in the town's dilapitated dormitory.