The numbers above show that more than half of the tax revenue in the budget is still contributed by large businesses. However, the contribution of SMEs is not proportionate to their role in economic activity.
The Tsarukyan election alliance, named after the business tycoon Gagik Tsaukyan, has published a list of fifteen steps it will implement if it wins the upcoming parliamentary election.
At a Yerevan press conference today, former foreign minister Vardan Oskanian of the ORO alliance (Ohanian, Raffi, Oskanian), pledged to do away with speed cameras and paid street parking if their ticket came to power in the April 2 parliamentary election.
Citing security as the first issue facing Armenia, former defense minister Seyran Ohanian, heading the Ohanian-Raffi-Oskanian alliance ticket in the upcoming parliamentary election, told reporters, “Our state is in a complex region with many conflicts. We can’t forget this for a second.”
The Co-Chairs stressed to the Ministers the need to demonstrate greater flexibility and to resume comprehensive negotiations on reaching a lasting settlement as soon as possible.
The foreign ambassadors of Armenia and Azerbaijan met yesterday in Munich and discussed possible upcoming meetings between the two and a visit by the Minsk Group Co-chairs to the region.
Armenia’s State Revenue Committee reports that customs inspectors seized some 40 kilograms of various medicines hidden in a passenger bus traveling from Moscow to Yerevan on February 14.
The plaintiffs, environmentalisst and residents of Gndevaz, are seeking to overturn the analyses of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources and the Ministry of Nature Protection stating that mining in the region will have no substantial negative effects on the environment.
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