ARMENIA: PRECIOUS METALS AND BRANDY VS CORRUPTION, TAXES AND LAW ENFORCEMENT.
Armenia reported 6 percent GDP growth last year, despite a drought which caused agricultural production to decline. Industrial output grew 6 percent, thanks to 28-percent... MORE
ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN….
Presidents Robert Kocharian and Haidar Aliev held direct talks in Paris March 4-5 but failed to resolve the issues of principle that block any real... MORE
NATO BREAKING NEW GROUND IN ARMENIA.
Until very recently, Armenia's relations with NATO were almost nonexistent, having been circumscribed to episodic bilateral military cooperation with Greece, a NATO country which official... MORE
ARMENIAN ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE FAVORABLE.
GDP in the first eleven months of 2000 grew 4.3 percent despite the summer drought, which was predicted to cause severe difficulties in the agricultural... MORE
NEEDED INTERNATIONAL LENDING FOR ARMENIA LIKELY TO RESUME.
As late as this January international financial organizations had threatened the Armenian government with reduced financing of development programs if the government did not meet... MORE
ARMENIA UNPERTURBED BY PUTIN’S WOOING OF AZERBAIJAN.
Russian President Vladimir Putin won a standing ovation when he told Azerbaijan's parliament last week that the eventual solution to the conflict with Armenia should... MORE
ARMENIA, GEORGIA, MOLDOVA: PROMISING ECONOMIC OUTLOOK AT BEGINNING OF 2000…
The year 2000 was to have been one of recovery for all of the CIS economies. Spillover effects from the Russian crisis, which had caused... MORE
ARMENIA: MOSCOW’S MILITARY SANCTUARY IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS.
On October 20 and 23, two convoys of Russian armored vehicles moved from Russia's Akhalkalaki base in Georgia to Russia's base at Gyumri in Armenia... MORE
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