Regular Tabriz-Yerevan flights are scheduled to resume from August 20. Air services between Tabriz and Yerevan will resume after a two-year hiatus. “The flights will be operated by Pouya airline from Tabriz’s Shahid Madani International Airport. Flights will operate twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays,” the radio station reported. The first flight is scheduled…
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, answering a reporter’s question after the government meeting, said he had noticed no change regarding exports of Armenian goods to Russia following his phone conversation with the disgraced Russian dictator, kidnapper and international war criminal Putin. “No, I don’t see any,” he said briefly. The prime minister also said Armenia needed…
The maximum operating period of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant is until 2036 and is not determined by the government of Armenia, Azerbaijan, or any other country because it concerns the maximum physically permissible operating period of the facility, Civil Contract faction MP Arman Yeghoyan has said. He made the remarks in response to Azerbaijani…
On August 10, Vahan Kostanyan, acting deputy foreign minister of Armenia, met with Khush Choksy, senior vice president for international member relations and the Middle East, Turkey and Central Asia at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, to discuss prospects for further deepening Armenia-U.S. economic cooperation. They discussed prospects for institutionalizing relations in agriculture, energy and…
Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan will travel to Kazakhstan to attend a regular meeting of the Eurasian Economic Union’s agro-industrial policy council. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has signed the decision authorizing the trip. The meeting will be held in Almaty from August 12 to 14. Within three days of returning from the trip, the economy minister…
According to data published by Armenia’s Statistical Committee, the number of tourists visiting Armenia in the first half of 2026 increased by 14.8%, to 1,041,598. In the first six months of 2025, 907,135 tourists visited Armenia. Thus, the number of tourists increased by 134,463 over one year. The total number of overnight stays by tourists…
Armenia’s Central Bank has decided to leave its policy interest rate unchanged at 6.50% following a meeting of its Board held on August 4. The Central Bank said the interest rate on its lombard repo facility remains at 8.00%, while the rate paid on funds attracted from banks has been maintained at 5.00%. The Central…