Last week the RA National Assembly (NA) elected lawyer Vahe Grigoryan judge of the Constitutional Court of Armenia (CC) with 99 votes in favor and 23 votes against. Two days after his election, on June 20, Grigoryan announced the crisis situation in CC.
Grigoryan’s grounding is as...
With the decision of Prime Minister (PM) Nikol Pashinyan Zareh Sinanyan has been appointed High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs. It is a new post created as a result of Government structural amendments.
The Office of High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs will replace the former...
RA Government pays great attention to funding of higher education targeted at lowering interest rates of student loans. According to the Government decision on March, 2019, the annual rate of student loans was decreased to 9% instead of previous 12%.
The state will subsidize 2% of the...
One of the most unexpected news of the past week perhaps was resignation of the Minister of Justice Artak Zeynalyan, about which he made a statement on June 7. Lilit Makunts, head of the “My Step” faction of the National Assembly, informed the reporters that the faction had...
On June 7, at first reading the National Assembly adopted the draft law “On Making Amendments and Addenda to the Tax Code of the Republic of Armenia” presented by the Government.
The bill was approved by the Government in March and was sent to the National Assembly. Anyhow...
