Average monthly salary totaled AMD 139 331 in Armenia in February 2013, increasing by 3,2% from the same period in 2012.

Armenian National Assembly will hold a special meeting on April 9. The draft decision was approved March 20.

Armenian deputy minister noted completion of the negotiations by the Eastern Partnership summit as the political goal.

Both countries tried in vain to convince other EU leaders to relax the embargo at a European Council meeting last week.

5,4% growth was recorded in import bringing it to $335.7 mln (AMD 136,6 bln), the National Statistical Service said.

King Abdullah II said the start of President Barack Obama’s visit to the region opens a “window of opportunity”.

Skyfall director Sam Mendes will not return, MGM CEO says they “look forward to announcing a director soon.”

A report on the opening of direct Yerevan-Van flights threw Baku into another fit of hysterics. Azerbaijan seems to believe that any Armenia-related step initiated by Russia or Turkey must be coordinated with Baku for fear of the “righteous anger” of Ilham Aliyev.

The market average rate of USD totaled AMD 416.81 on March 20, increasing by 1.06 point compared to March 19.

President Sargsyan expressed hope that cooperation will contribute to deepening of friendship between the two nations.

A group of French MPs, former MPs and representatives of French city administrations set up a friendship circle with Artsakh.

The transfer took place through the mediation of International Committee of the Red Cross offices in Yerevan and Baku.

Artsakh President signed a decree to dismiss Karen Kostandyan from the post of first assistant to the NKR President.

The ruling party has not determined the new government staff yet, Republican Party of Armenia spokesman Eduard Sharmazanov said.

The ministry’s center forecasts that the average temperature around the globe will jump by 2.8 degrees Celsius this century.

Giorgio Napolitano began formal consultations with the parties to try to form a government after last month’s election stalemate.

Nokia has asserted the power-saving patent against HTC in the UK and at the United States International Trade Commission.

RPA parliamentary group leader said the text of the announcement was drafted, in consideration of the political forces’ offers.

“We will receive the message from the intelligence agency today,” BDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has said.

It paid a yield of 0.757 percent to sell 300 million euros of 3-month Treasury bills, slightly up from 0.737 last month.

The two display giants have been embroiled in a patent tussle over organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and LCD technologies.

Obama was welcomed at Ben Gurion airport by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli President Shimon Peres.

Sarris is in Moscow to discuss the extension of a 2.5-billion-euro loan that Russia gave Nicosia in 2011 at a rate of 4.5 percent.

Pakistani Taliban militants are waging a violent campaign to topple the government and impose their austere brand of Islam.

Craig Berkman was arrested at his home in Odessa, Florida, and appeared briefly before a federal magistrate in Tampa.

The assailants targeted markets, restaurants, bus stops and day laborers mainly in Shia districts of the capital.

Before traveling to Yerevan on March 15, both patients had been slaughtering cattle in a Georgian village.

In Feb 2013, consumer prices grew by 3,1% compared with the same period in 2012, with 2.8% inflation recorded.

The charge reduced annual net profit to €291 million from €665 million. That’s an even steeper plunge from €4.3 billion in 2011.

Witnesses said the shells landed in fields near al-Qasr, a village less than a mile from the border, but no one was hurt.