“I am confident that it will be so. Many steps were taken. It is the first time that in the post-soviet space the parliamentary majority and opposition made joint efforts by creating a legislative field, such mechanisms that inspire trust to every citizen that his/her voice will decide the political arrangement of the upcoming 5 years.”
“Lavrov also stated on Azerbaijan’s possible membership to EEU in his interview. It’s known that some Azerbaijani circles in negotiations with Moscow attempt to circulate this issue to gain Russian support in NK conflict settlement.”
The task group of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Armenia, which was formed with the purpose of studying media reports, reports of citizens, reports through the hot line of the Prosecutor General’s Office, in connection with possible electoral illegal activities during the parliamentary elections has already studied 225 reports as of 01.04.2017, 57 of which contained criminal elements of electoral essence.
The number of voters who are currently undergoing medical treatment in hospitals in 2001. The number of the members of district electoral commissions is 28,277. 197 police officers have been dispatched to polling stations.
National Statistical Service of Armenia issued statistics of investments for 2016. As April 1 is the silence day of election campaign, we won’t reflect to promises of political powers and their programs. Instead, we’ll introduce what snapshot we had in 2016, how much investments we had, from which countries and in which fields.
“This year, in fact, Armenia implements certain steps toward the West, as it realizes that the threat of getting isolated from the world isn’t far against the background of West-Russia disagreements.”
Armenian exports in JanuaryFebruary, 2017 amounted to 273 million and 696.5 thousand USD. The data released by the National Statistical Service of Armenia show this number amounted to 227 million and 976.7 thousand USD in the same period of 2016. The increase is 20.1%.
This week’s topic for the debate in the “Pressing” Club under “168 Hours” newspaper was participation of directors of schools and kindergartens in pre-election campaign, which based on issued recordings are busy recruiting election lists for the leading Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) (The project is implemented in partnership with “DEPOP” Institute for Governance and “AZAD Pharma AG” ltd).
“Aliyev likes PR. Look what he is doing, Aliyev invested large amounts of money in a village which is under their control and is showing to the Azerbaijani society that he has “liberated” it, he is making a show.”
CEO of the Tufenkchi Group factory Carlo Gaspar said the factory plans to produce 350-400 thousand USD worth of production in 2017 and create 25-30 jobs. “In the future it is planned to expand production, which will result in an addition 50-60 jobs.