Category: 2022

 11:58,

YEREVAN, MAY 16, ARMENPRESS. Despite the drop in remittances (money transfers made to Armenia by seasonal workers abroad), the total transfers have increased compared to the previous year at the expense of the significant transfers made by “international visitors”, the Vice Governor of the Central Bank of Armenia Hovhannes Khachatryan said at the parliamentary committee on financial-credit and budgetary affairs.

He reminded that in the beginning of the year the Central Bank projected a decline in money transfers, including 50% drop from Russia.

“We’ve divided the transfers into two parts now. We see that the non-commercial transfers, meaning the money sent by seasonal workers, have dropped, at the same time the transfers made by international visitors grew, they are also making transfers to Armenia in various ways, including transfers made by themselves to their name. There is growth in terms of the sum compared to 2021,” Khachatryan said.

He said these transfers have significantly impacted the overall dynamics.

 12:37,

YEREVAN, MAY 16, ARMENPRESS. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda will arrive in Armenia May 19-20 on an official visit, the Lithuanian presidency’s press service said.

President Nausėda will have meetings with President Vahagn Khachaturyan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Speaker of Parliament Alen Simonyan.

The regional security situation in the South Caucasus, the democratic reforms in the country, the EU-Armenia cooperation in the Eastern Partnership framework, as well as the bilateral relations between Lithuania and Armenia will be discussed during the meetings.

President Nausėda will also have a meeting with the Armenian Apostolic Church’s Catholicos Karekin II.

The Lithuanian President will meet the Lithuanian community of Armenia and will also visit the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan.

Before the Armenia visit, the President of Lithuania will travel to Azerbaijan.

 12:40,

YEREVAN, MAY 16, ARMENPRESS. Service exports in Armenia grew in the first 4 months of 2022 due to the “flow of international visitors”, the Vice Governor of the Central Bank Hovhannes Khachatryan said at the parliamentary committee on financial-credit and budgetary affairs.

Speaking about the real exports of services, Khachatryan said: “We have very direct service exports, when a non-resident is consuming our IT or any other service. We have factual exports growth in the first four months.”

According to statistics, very little exports growth and large imports growth was recorded in March. Khachatryan explained this by saying that there is exports that isn’t being registered. “These people are in Armenia, time must pass so that the statistical committee updates its assessment. We are doing this, but in the short-term you can’t go and see what an international visitor, for example, has bought,” he said.

 12:54,

YEREVAN, MAY 16, ARMENPRESS. 17 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Armenia in the period from May 11 to 16, the ministry of healthcare said.

The total number of confirmed cases has reached 422,917.

8934 COVID-19 tests were conducted in one week.

Over the past week, the number of recovered patients rose by 21 (412,071 total).

No death case has been registered during the past week. The death toll stands at 8623.

 13:38,

YEREVAN, MAY 16, ARMENPRESS. The leaders of CSTO-member states will discuss issues related to deepening military cooperation and biosafety at the organization’s summit in Moscow, TASS reported citing the Kremlin.

“A discussion on deepening military cooperation, effectively withstanding the traditional and new challenges and threats (including from the territory of Afghanistan) is planned. Special attention will be drawn on biosafety issues.”

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will also participate in the CSTO summit.

 14:59,

YEREVAN, MAY 16, ARMENPRESS. Two servicemen of the Armenian Armed Forces are arrested on charges of abetment of suicide in the ongoing investigation into the death of Private Argishti Yeghyan, the Investigative Committee said.  

According to investigators, Rifleman-Assistant Grenadier Private Argishti Yeghyan killed himself using his service rifle while on duty at a military position in the morning of May 11.

The two comrades of Private Yeghyan are suspected in negligently causing his suicide, a crime under the Armenian Penal Code. The two suspects have been remanded into custody.

They face up to 9 years imprisonment if found guilty.

 14:52,

YEREVAN, MAY 16, ARMENPRESS. 91 demonstrators in the ongoing anti-government protests in Yerevan were detained by police on May 16.

The demonstrations held under the “Resistance Movement” name carried out what they describe as civil disobedience acts in various streets across the city. The protesters were blocking streets and causing traffic obstructions, police said.

 15:15,

YEREVAN, MAY 16, ARMENPRESS. A paramedic team in Yerevan was assaulted after responding to a 911 call, the ambulance service said.

According to the Ambulance Service Director Taguhi Stepanyan, the paramedic was seriously injured and is hospitalized. The driver of the ambulance suffered milder injuries.

“After the medics were leaving the home call, the homeowner attacked and battered the medic and the driver. Police were notified,” Stepanyan said.

Meanwhile, the incident received condemnation from City Hall.

Vice Mayor of Yerevan Gevorg Simonyan issued a statement condemning any act of violence against doctors. “We will be coherent in making sure that this incident gets the appropriate criminal-legal assessment,” Simonyan added.

City Councillor Ashot Sargsyan also issued a statement. “A medic and driver of an ambulance were assaulted while responding to a call, [the medic] was hit in the head with a crowbar. The paramedics were hospitalized. Any act of violence against a doctor is condemnable,” Sargsyan said.

Other details weren’t immediately clear.

 15:04,

YEREVAN, MAY 16, ARMENPRESS. Retired Armenian-German professional boxer Arthur Abraham has founded a park in Nerkin Charbakh, the neighborhood in Yerevan where he was born.

The construction of the park began around a year ago and was completed recently.

The inauguration of the park will take place at 16:00, June 1.

Abraham will personally open the park.

The park is located near the Surb Khach (Holy Cross) Church of Nerkin Charbakh in Yerevan’s Shengavit district.

Arthur Abraham, born Avetik Abrahamyan, held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the IBF middleweight title from 2005 to 2009, and the WBO super-middleweight title twice between 2012 and 2016.