ArmInfo.The last working day for Converse Bank’s branches in 2018 is December 29. On that day, the Bank's branches will provide services during the usual working hours, from 10:00 to 14:30.

ArmInfo.The Criminal Court of Appeal rejected the request of the lawyer of the third President of Armenia Serzh Sargyan's security head Vachagan Ghazaryan Armen  Harutyunyan to change measure of restraint against him.

ArmInfo.A number of intellectuals and experts decided to form a working group that will develop approaches to resolve the Karabakh conflict and present them  to the Prime Minister, the head of the foreign ministry and the OSCE  Minsk Group co-chairs.

ArmInfo.The Central Bank of Armenia summed up the results of the regular competition of scholarships named after the first chairman of the Central Bank of  Armenia, Isaak Isahakyan. The press service of the Central Bank told  ArmInfo that 25 students participated in the Competition of  scholarships named after Isahak Isahakyan, of which only 18 make it  into the final, and only 7 of them were declared winners.

ArmInfo. On the eve of the completion of the authorities of the Speaker of the National Assembly the RA NA Speaker Ara Babloyan had meetings with the RA President Armen Sarkissian, the RA Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the Supreme Patriarch and the Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II.

ArmInfo.Through in Armenia, the oligarchic order that replaced  authoritarianism has been destroyed, but the threat of a return to  authoritarianism persists. Manvel Sargsyan, director of the Armenian  Center for Strategic and National Studies, said in an interview with  ArmInfo correspondent.

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ArmInfo.The Artsakh conflict is  not over, but we have moved from the military to the information  confrontation. The director of the "International Center for Human  Development" Tevan Poghosyan said this at a press conference on  December 21.

ArmInfo. The tariff for Russian  gas exported to Armenia is likely to rise from January 1, 2018.  Political analyst Suren Sargsyan stated this at a press conference.

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ArmInfo. "In the days of the  April 2016 war, the Armenian side had intelligence information about  possible actions by the special forces of Azerbaijan," Acting Defense  Minister David Tonoyan told the radio Azatutyun speaking about the  work of the intelligence department of the General Staff of the Armed  Forces during the April war.

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ArmInfo. Chief of the Armenian  police, Valery Osipyan, refuted the rumors that the law-enforcement  agencies " take under " of criminal authorities, and continues to  cooperate with them. Osipyan told reporters on December 20 that he  was ready to resign if someone could prove these accusations. 

ArmInfo.  In 2018 Armenia has experienced a dramatic turnaround, collumnist at Washington Post Frida Ghitis expressed such an opinion. 

ArmInfo. The famous British magazine ''The Economist'' called Armenia the "Country of the Year."

ArmInfo.Former Prime Minister of Armenia, former First Deputy Chairman of the former ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Karen Karapetyan leaves the party.  

ArmInfo. In the framework of  his working visit to Georgia, the President of the Republic of  Armenia Armen Sargsyan held a tete-a-tete conversation with the Prime  Minister of Georgia Mamuk Bakhtadze in Tbilisi.

ArmInfo.The delegation headed by the President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian was present yesterday at the oath taking ceremony of the newly elected President of Georgia  Salome Zurabishvili which took place at the palace of Irakli II in Telavi town of Georgia, the press service of Armenian President informs.  

ArmInfo. Artur Baghdasaryan leaves the active policy and the post of party "Orinats  Yerkir". This became known during the extraordinary congress of the  party, which was attended by the leaders of the party's territorial  structures from Yerevan and from all regions of Armenia.

ArmInfo.RA President Armen Sarkissian sent a congratulatory message in connection with the victory in the extraordinary parliamentary elections of the "My Bloc"  bloc headed by the Acting. Prime Minister Nikol Pashiyan.