Hakob Hakaobyan, a member of the Armenian National Assembly, has been roundly castigated for saying that inflation in Armenia would not affect the poor because they were in no position to purchase those goods anyway.
Development Foundation of Armenia and the UN Development Program launch a grant program “E- governance as an Electronic Tool for Facilitating the Government to Attract Foreign Investment”. The parties, through the survey among the business community, aim to identify procedures and processes that hinder investments and need to be simplified to improve the investment climate and enhance business competitiveness in Armenia.
The cost of manning a security checkpoint outside the mayor’s office is 6.4 million drams. Manning three additional checkpoints throughout the building will cost 30.1 million drams.
Masha, a two-year-old brown bear caged on the premises of a Gyumri restaurant has been sent to the Yerevan Zoo for temporary keeping.
The parliament also passed, by a vote of 73 to 12, the controversial “Prevention of Violence in the Family, Defense of the Rights of Those Subject to Violence in the Family, and the Restoration of Serenity in the Family” bill.
Two diaspora Armenian winemakers are facing off in a Yerevan appeals court over a trademark dispute.