Armenia's GDP grew by 5.5% in the first half of 2017. In contrast, the construction volume in the country in the first seven months of 2017 decreased by 9% compared to the same period in 2016, this according to figures recently published by the National Statistical Service.
Armen Yeramishyan captures some scenes of independence festivities in the Artsakh capital of Stepanakert.
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The ministry says that Azerbaijani forces violated the ceasefire some 200 times last week, firing over 2,200 rounds of various caliber small arms.
This data doesn’t come from the Ministry of Education and Science, which says it has no exact teacher vacancy numbers, but from the country’s ten provincial administrations and various municipalities contacted by Hetq after the ministry failed to provide any numbers.