Tuesday, March 18 2025,
ArmInfo. Air Arabia Abu Dhabi will start operating flights on the route Abu Dhabi-Yerevan-Abu Dhabi starting June 1, 2025, as reported by the press service of Zvartnots International Airport. Flights will be operated 6 times a week: every Monday, Thursday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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Tuesday, March 18 2025,
ArmInfo. This time, the Central Bank of Armenia has considered it appropriate to leave the refinancing rate unchanged at 6.75%. This decision was made on March 18 at a meeting of the Board of the Central Bank of Armenia. The Lombard Repo Facility Rate - 8.25% and the Deposit Facility Rate - 5.25% have also been kept at the previous level.
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Tuesday, March 18 2025,
ArmInfo. The Republican Union of Employers of Armenia (RUEA) is deeply convinced that the purpose of the amendments to the Administrative Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia initiated by the Ministry of Justice to review the procedure for appealing fines is to quickly replenish the state treasury. Meanwhile, its adoption will have irreversible negative consequences for Armenian business.
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Tuesday, March 18 2025,
ArmInfo. The placement of Eurobonds in the amount of $750 million at an extremely high rate of 7.1% per annum indicates a deterioration in the situation in the Armenian economy. This assessment was made by economist, former member of parliament from the Prosperous Armenia faction Mikael Melkumyan.
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Tuesday, March 18 2025,
ArmInfo. Former assistant to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and brother of the ruling NA faction MP Hayk Sargsyan - Nairi Sargsyan proposes returning to the previous system of product labeling, since the new one is unreliable and has already become a real "headache" for businesses.
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Tuesday, March 18 2025,
ArmInfo. The supply of Russian natural gas to Armenia has been temporarily suspended. This was stated in a statement by Gazprom Armenia CJSC.
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Monday, March 17 2025,
ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has chaired a meeting to address issues related to the product labeling system and identification tools.
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Monday, March 17 2025,
ArmInfo. We are moving forward with the current agenda, which is focused on diversifying the economy. This was stated by Armenian Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan during a meeting of the Standing Parliamentary Committee, in response to a question from a parliamentarian about Armenia's potential withdrawal from the EAEU and joining the EU. Papoyan reiterated that the government's agenda does not involve leaving the Eurasian Economic Union. He also clarified that the document being discussed (the bill on the EU accession process) doesn't signify actual membership in the EU. He said that in the coming days he will visit the Russian Federation, where he will hold meetings with two colleagues to discuss the possibility of expanding bilateral trade and economic cooperation, and then go to the UAE, Japan, etc.
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Monday, March 17 2025,
ArmInfo. Economist Suren Parsyan believes that the fifth and final issue of Eurobonds ended up costing Armenia more than the previous ones. The economist pointed out that in 2013, Armenia issued Eurobonds for the first time in its financial history, amounting $500 million. This amount was mainly used to repay the Russian interstate debt. Later, the government continued to issue Eurobonds several times to pay off previous debts and acquire additional loans.
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Monday, March 17 2025,
ArmInfo. Minister of Labor and Social Affairs of Armenia Narek Mkrtchyan, as the person responsible for foreign relations of the Civil Contract party, held a number of meetings as part of his visit to Donald Trump's mansion in Mar-a-Lago.
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Monday, March 17 2025,
ArmInfo. From January 1 to March 10, 17,374,372 tickets were purchased in Yerevan within the framework of the introduced unified ticket system, of which 213,021 (only 1.2%) were package tickets developed by the capital's municipality. This became known following the results of the working meeting of the Yerevan City Hall on March 17.
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Monday, March 17 2025,
ArmInfo. rmenian Airlines will temporarily suspend flights from April 7. According to the official statement of the airline, the reason for this decision was the renewal of the fleet and the acquisition of new aircraft.
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Monday, March 17 2025,
ArmInfo. Armenia has placed Eurobonds worth $750 million, which indicates a high level of confidence among international investors in the republic's economy. This was stated by Babken Tunyan, a member of parliament from the ruling Civil Contract faction, on social media.
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Saturday, March 15 2025,
ArmInfo. Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan attended the opening of the GTB Steel Company steel reinforcement plant in the Ararat community.
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Saturday, March 15 2025,
ArmInfo. From March 10 to 14, 2025, dollar transactions and the same number of ruble transactions were conducted on the Armenian interbank currency market, while euro transactions resumed. As a result, the weekly trend of dollar transactions remained on the rise with a slowdown in rates from 33% to 24%, while ruble transactions continued to grow, but with an acceleration in rates from 12% to 21.4%. As a result, the prevalence of the weekly volume of dollar transactions over ruble ones did not change (1.7 times), but over euro ones it turned out to be more significant (22 times).
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Friday, March 14 2025,
ArmInfo. The Chairman of the State Revenue Committee (SRC) of the Republic of Armenia, Eduard Hakobyan, received the Head of the European Union Delegation to Armenia, Ambassador Vassilis Maragos.
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Friday, March 14 2025,
ArmInfo. The Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure of Armenia, in partnership with the Asian Development Bank, has launched the program Several industry companies are also participating .in the implementation of this program.
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