Artur Sargsyan, who was arrested last August and released in December for taking food to members of the armed Sasna Dzrer group holed up in a Yerevan police station after seizing it in July, has been detained and taken to the office of the Special Investigative Service (SIS).
Armenia is one of the countries where the EBRD's Local Currency and Capital Markets Development (LC2) Initiative has delivered its best and most visible results, setting the stage for further development of local capital markets.
Armenia will spend 293 million AMD (US$602,000) on equipment, technologies and other costs associated with the parliamentary election scheduled for April 2.
Armenia exported US$1.783 billion worth of goods and services in 2016, up 20% over the previous year.
Seeking to get the Armenian diaspora more involved in the economic development of Armenia, Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan today instructed diaspora minister Hranoush Hakobyan to draft a plan of action, in concert with other executive government bodies, prominent diasporan leaders and experts, tasked with expanding cooperation.
Zakaryan, who’s headed the Control Chamber for the past ten years, released a statement saying that is his moral and political obligation to stand beside his friend Tsarukyan who recently returned to politics after a two-year absence.
Reports circulating in the press that various government departments and provincial authorities have been using their administrative resources to promote this or that political party in the run-up to April’s parliamentary election has angered Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan.
According to the government’s website, Karapetyan congratulated Iran’s Ambassador to Armenia Seyed Kazem Sajadi and the people of Iran on the occasion, expressing the hope that Armenia-Iran relations would further strengthen.
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