From March 18-24, AMD loans granted by banks totaled 32,6 bln., while USD loans amounted to 44,7 mln.

CEC registered the candidates’ lists of 6 parties and one political bloc for May 5 Yerevan city council elections.

Armavia national carrier issued a statement on March 28, announcing a decision to cease operations starting April 1, 2013.

“RPA stands ready to take measures, aiming to make Yerevan a better capital,” party spokesman Eduard Sharmazanov said.

Azerbaijan continues its habit of distorting history: while accusing Armenia of every mortal sin, it pretends to be a lamb, misunderstood by everyone in the world except Turkey. It was ex-President Heydar Aliyev who first tried to “rewrite” the history. Even now, Baku is trying to prove that the resettlement of Azeris from Armenia was “the doing of Armenians.”

State budget expenditures totaled AMD 131,7 bln in Jan 2013, ensuring 58,6% implementation of government program.

Zildjian founded Sabian in 1981 after a legal battle with his brother over their inheritance of the family business.

Although U.S. joblessness has fallen, the Fed said it wanted to see signs of a long-term trend of falling unemployment.

Pakistan is one of the few remaining countries, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria, where polio is rampant.

“Obama’s presence during the phone conversation softened the atmosphere,” the Turkish Foreign Minister said.

NKR leader attended the signing of agreement between Synopsys Armenia, Karabakh Telecom and Artsakh State University.

Armenian ambassador to Canada Armen Yeganian met with Canada’s Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism

A police officer said four worshippers were killed and nearly 20 were wounded in a bombing in eastern Qahira neighborhood.

The Montenegrin – known as the “Monster of Grbavica”, after a district of the city – had pleaded not guilty.

Prime Minister of Nagorno Karabakh Republic Ara Harutyunyan is currently in France on a two-day working visit.

On March 22, Armenian citizen Vrezh Galstyan, armed with a knife, made an attempt to enter the parliament building.

According to international law, exercises of this size do not have to be announced to other countries prior to their beginning.

Three weeks ago, Microsoft said the Windows 8 Pro-powered device would go on sale in several more markets in Q2.

The film intends to depict a heroic interstellar voyage to the farthest borders of our scientific understanding.

The company’s fleet was replenished with 3 planes in 2003, with 7 and 14 more planes in 2006 and 2007 respectively.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation of Turkey instructed Borajet air company to delay the opening of Van-Yerevan-Van direct flight.

The Israelis have deployed five of the interceptors, well short of the 13 they say they would need for nationwide defense.

“Neither Karabakh nor Azerbaijan would benefit from a war as I don’t think either country would win outright,” Araik Harutyunyan said.

The battery is a 100-volt 13.5-kilowatt nickel-metal hydride battery located under the revised rear floor area of the vehicle.

Sir Nicholas Hytner, director of the National Theatre, said Griffiths’s unexpected death would devastate his “army of friends”.

Users of social networks were outraged over the fact that many people in need of medical aid get no governmental assistance whatsoever.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius discussed the matter with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, according to the report.

According to a political analyst Vafa Guluzade, the move was meant to prevent OSCE criticism at the oncoming elections.

Charlotte Kechejian told how she walked with her mother for miles through the desert to escape persecution by the ruling Turks.

The Executive Committee approved specific funding in the form of €10m worth of aid to national associations over three years