The German Bundestag held a debate on the Armenian Genocideon February 25 but did not vote on the bill proposed by the Alliance 90/The Greens. The ruling coalition said it’s not the proper time to adopt the bill and proposed to continue the discussions in the coming weeks to prepare a new finalized document until April 24, 2016, “Armenpress” reports citing the website of Public Radio of Armenia.

From 1950s, more exactly after Stalin’s death and the party’s meeting condemning personality cult, the so-called thaw period was launched in the Soviet Union, which, together with its restricted manifestations, had essential reflection especially on country’s cultural environment, as well as created an opportunity to somewhat crack the “iron curtain” separating it from the West. […]

This doesn’t refer to the issue, that we very deeply feel worsening of EEU major actor—Russia’s economic condition via decrease of transfers and other manifestations. Truly enough, our membership to EEU more deepened economic dependency from Russia, however, Armenia would have felt those negative signals on its economy, even if not engaged with the structure.

The idea is quite simple, it’s an economic structure, and if Armenia, with its small population, thinks of enlarging its economy, major secret for success is the market. It’s clear, that there are political layers in EEU, as well as in economy. We saw what impact politics had in our relations with the Ukraine, and what’s going on in economy of the Ukraine.

It’s not a dislike button, but it’s the next-best thing. Facebook changed its “like” button to a range of emotions including love, surprise and sadness, “Armenpress” reports citing The Telegraph website.

Armenian citizens will no more pay value-added tax (VAT) for the cars imported from the countries of Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). For that purpose Armenian government made additions to one of the previous decisions and approved the Armenian Republic’s draft law on making amendments and additions to the law of the Republic of Armenia on “Value-added tax” and considered the aforesaid as an urgent issue.

Today, RA Parliament adopted a draft bill, pursuant which it’s proposed to make amendments to the Law on “Value Added Tax.” It’s offered not to charge VAT for vehicles imported by physical persons from EEU member countries.

According to some rumors, Armenia will have 10-12 banks by the end of the year. Moreover, it can’t be stated for sure, that small banks will refrain from the market. What is more, decisions on banks’ refraining may be partially considered on political dimension.

In order to implement the Constitutional reforms, as well as the main aspects of the President’s speech of February 12, the ruling majority considers cooperation unavoidable. Speaking to journalists at the National Assembly in reference to the RPA-ARF agreement, head of the RPA faction Vahram Baghdasaryan said that the parliamentary system of governance also requires cooperation with other political forces.

The Armenian-Iranian sides have deviated from the action plan provided for by “Meghri” HPP construction project and now they are revising the technical-economic component of the project. Deputy Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Armenia Areg Galstyan told about this during a round-table discussion themed “The Eurasian path of Transcaucasia: integration for development”. In his words, conditioned by the diminishing water resources of Armenia, Iran and Armenia have to revise the “Meghri” HPP project.