By Eva Sahakyan YEREVAN, August 30 — Armenia needs to renew its offered tourist services, Bekor Papazian, head of the National Competitiveness Fund of the Republic of Armenia, said. “We must not be satisfied only with cultural and historical tourism. Using this facilities we must offer other services, adventure tourism, for instance, as Armenia is [...]
By Victoria Vardanyan YEREVAN, August 23– In January-June the average market prices for apartments in Yerevan increased by 1.3 percent per 1 square meter compared with the same period in 2009, according to the report of the State Committee of Real Estate Cadastre of Armenia. According to the Cadastre, in the first six months of [...]
By Alexander Tagvoryan YEREVAN, August 21–On August 20 a Russian-Armenian intergovernmental agreement on the construction of a new nuclear power plant in Armenia was signed between the Minister of Energy of Armenia Armen Movsisyan and Sergey Kiriyenko, the general director of the Russian governmental corporation called “Rosatom.” The construction of the new power-generating unit in [...]
By Alexander Tagvoryan YEREVAN, August 20–Good news for ArmenTel (trade mark Beeline) customers. From now on, the roaming service for the subscribers of the telecommunications company’s postpaid billing system will automatically be connected in Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh). “Now the subscribers of the universal operator will not have to think about activating roaming services before going [...]
By Eva Sahakyan YEREVAN, August 19–Russia is a very important commercial and economic partner for Armenia, and it’s the main investor in Armenia and the main outlet for Armenian products, said Edward Nalbandian, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, during his interview with the Russian TV channel “Russia 24.” He also mentioned that today [...]
By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, August 11 — Armenian Minister of Finance Tigran Davtyan and Constantin Sinadino, the head of the European Investment Bank division and Head of the Eastern Europe, Southern Caucasus, Russia & Central Asia Department, signed a loan agreement of €5 million for the implementation of the Yerevan Metro Rehabilitation Project. The loan [...]
By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, August 10 — Samvel Galstyan, Armenian Deputy Minister of Agriculture, said that Armenia will be provided with enough amounts of wheat. Nevertheless, Armenia can’t stand apart from the situation that has emerged on the world wheat market, including the set prices. “The Government of Armenia and Armenia’s Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian [...]
By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, August 6 — At a conference held on August 5 the Armenian government made a decision on forming a crediting organization with the participation of the Armenian foundation for renewable energy and energy conservation. Armen Movsisyan, the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, noted that such a decision was made based [...]
By Eva Sahakyan YEREVAN, August 6–The Japanese Toshiba Corporation is opening an official representative office in Armenia and intends to take more than 15 percent of the Armenian computer market, according to Igor Snytko, the Toshiba Regional General Manager of CIS and Baltic countries. “We can see that the Armenian market is empty. For the [...]
By Alexander Tagvoryan YEREVAN, August 5–According to the statistics of the Customs Department of Armenia, in the first half of 2010 the number of cell phones imported to Armenia increased to 440,000, up from 124,000 in the same period of 2009. However, the representatives of companies that import and resell mobile phones refute the figures published by the committee of [...]
