
ArmInfo. At its April 18 meeting, the Armenian government approved a program to support the purchase of fertilizers in the Republic.

ArmInfo. The executive body of Armenia has defined the specifics of organizing construction work and procuring related services for the unfinished section of the Babajanyan-Ashtarak highway in Yerevan.

ArmInfo. Ameriabank's Investor's Day initiative this time has united Armenia's tech community. The day before (April 16), the Bank invited representatives of the Union of Advanced Technology Enterprises (UATE), which unites over 250 tech companies, to its platform. Ameriabank itself is a member of UATE since 2025, acting as a changemaker in the sector.

ArmInfo. Years ago, when AraratBank joined the initiative aimed at supporting the education of students who had served as defenders of our homeland, it was difficult to foresee that cooperation established with the 4090 Charity Foundation would evolve into a strategic partnership dedicated to ensuring the continuous education of veterans of the 4-day and 44-day wars.

ArmInfo. On April 10, the RA National Assembly Committee on Healthcare held working discussions on the topic of "100 Days of Universal Health Insurance System."

ArmInfo. Taxi drivers operating through electronic taxi platforms will become beneficiaries of the compulsory health insurance system starting January 1, 2027. The decision to amend the law "On Universal Health Insurance" will be discussed at an extraordinary session of the RA National Assembly on April 7.

ArmInfo.Armenia's foreign trade turnover in January-February 2026 increased by 9.3% year-on-year, recovering from a 52% decline in the same period last year.

ArmInfo.Preliminary data from the Statistical Committee of Armenia reveals a positive shift in the national labor market for 2025, with the unemployment rate falling from 13.4% to 12.8%. The total number of unemployed citizens decreased by 4.9%, settling at 172,300 people by the end of the year.

ArmInfo. Economic activity in Russia in the first quarter of 2026 was expected to slow amid adjustments to tax changes, but more positive dynamics are possible in the second quarter, according to the "What the Trends Say" bulletin prepared by the Central Bank's Research and Forecasting Department.

ArmInfo. Brent crude oil rose more than 3% in Thursday's trading amid new reports regarding the situation in the Middle East.

ArmInfo. The Electric Networks of Armenia CJSC has already been de facto nationalized, and
the legal formalization process is currently underway, as stated the RA Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, at a briefing on April 9.

ArmInfo. An expert team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is currently in Armenia to conduct seminars with representatives from relevant agencies on nuclear safety ahead of the 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 17), as reported to ArmInfo by the press service of the Armenian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

ArmInfo. An agreement was signed between the Armenian Ministry of High-Tech Industry and Firebird AI, according to which the Armenian government will purchase high-performance computing resources from Firebird AI worth $25 million for a period of five years. This was announced on his Facebook page by Armenian Minister of High-Tech Industry Mkhitra Hayrapetyan.

ArmInfo. The project by Firebird to build an artificial intelligence (AI) and data processing center in Armenia is progressing successfully, as announced during a meeting between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and NVIDIA Vice President Reva Lebaredyan, Integra Technologies Chairman of the Board of Directors Zaven Akian, and Service Titan President Vahe Kuzoyan.

ArmInfo. Reverse mortgage institution will be introduced in Armenia. The RA government approved amendments to the Civil Code and a package of related laws at its April 2 meeting.

ArmInfo.In 2025, there were 11,070 mortgage transactions concluded in Armenia, exceeding the
2024 figure by 32.2%, according to data from the State Committee of Real Estate Cadastre of the Republic of Armenia.