Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan today met with Mariam Mkrtchyan, who won the Girls U18 World Youth Championship in September, and used the occasion to promote his government’s stated aim to win the world chess championship by 2025.
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan, at today’s government cabinet session, said yesterday’s CSTO Collective Security Council session in Yerevan was “positive” even though it failed to reach a joint statement regarding Azerbaijani aggression against Armenia.
Armenia will receive €200 million in loans, €100m each from the Agence française de développement, AFD) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) in a project designed improve public fiscal management and develop financial and capital markets in Armenia.
In a stunning reversal, the Court of Justice of the European Union weakened an existing anti-money laundering rule on Tuesday, limiting use of one of the most potent tools against financial secrecy – access to beneficial ownership information.
A Kyrgyz investigative journalist who has published stories about high-level corruption in the country was apparently deported today, minutes after a court ruled against him.
Following yesterday’s CSTO Collective Security Council session in Yerevan, Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin met and discussed relations between the two countries.