The village was freezing but Samvel only wore a thin jacket. He said he was used to it. Samvel has no permanent job and sustains the family by gathering what he can from the local forest. “If it wasn’t for the forest, I don’t know what would become of us,” he says. Chickens run to and fro as we enter the yard of the house.
Mrs. Asya is one of the 100 former employees of Yerevan’s “Center Cleaning” now out of work after the company dissolved. She still hasn’t received her final paycheck.
Samvel Isakahakyan, who heads the Financial-Budgetary Oversight Inspectorate at Armenia’s Ministry of Finance, reported today that as a result of tax audits conducted this year, some 17 billion AMD (US$35.2 million) in additional tax liabilities are to be levied for inclusion in the national budget.
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan today presided at a council session of the Russian led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Moscow.
On December 21, Foreign Minister of Armenia, Chairman of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Council of Foreign Ministers, chaired the Foreign Ministers’ meeting of the Organization.
Armenia’s Department of Corrections has reported that it has launched a criminal case of “abuse of official authority” surrounding the November 7, 2015 death of Soghomon Kocharyan.
Before getting down to business today, Armenian National Assembly President Galoust Sahakyan called on legislators to stand for a minute of silence to honor Armenian soldiers killed and wounded during recent intensified fighting on the Artsakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact.
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