Oscar winner Tom Hanks called on taking part in the upcoming Gala concert organized by the Children of Armenia Fund (COAF) on December 9 in New York. Hanks posted a video where he says: “I cannot be there, which makes me a fool, because I don’t pass up meals at Cipriani easily. Please join this concert, explore your Armenian roots, and if you are not Armenian, just enjoy the night at Cipriani. God bless!”
Nairit Plant CJSC has been recognized as bankrupt. Court of General Jurisdiction of Shengavit Administrative District (judge Armen Chichoyan) yesterday hurried to pronounce the verdict on bankruptcy. Accordingly, the Court has satisfied the lawsuit by the “Electric Networks of Armenia” CJSC (ENA) and passed a decision to charge AMD 500 thousand from Nairi Plat CJSC in favor of ENA, as an amount, initially paid as state fee.
Vladimir Hakobyan added, “The issue of return of any territory may be object only in case of resolution of NK’s status. The settlement package enshrines the necessity of land connection between Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh. Any enclave status can’t even be touched upon.”
At the same time, average nominal consumption expenditures per capita comprised AMD 42 thousand 867. In 2015, as compared to 2014, the index has grown by 5.1%. Shares of service (by 10.7%), non-food products have considerably increased in expenditures.
That Russia is pulling Armenia ever closer is upsetting to some in Azerbaijan, where some lawmakers are asking for reconsideration of their country’s close relations with Russia. Azerbaijan’s relationship with Armenia is fraught over, among other things, the frozen conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, in which Russia has played peacemaker, and from which it has therefore sometimes been accused of benefiting.
In the period of January-September 2016 export volume from Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) member countries comprised USD 274.1 million. As compared to the same period of the previous year, export from Armenia to EEU has grown by 55.2%. This information was provided by the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) database.
