ArmInfo.Armenian robot Robin, along with the famous Apple MacBook Pro, Iphone, PlayStation 5, entered the Golden Kitty Award list as one of the best products of  2020. Minister of High-tech Industry of Armenia Hakob Arshakyan  announced this on his Facebook page.

ArmInfo.Ardshinbank has introduced new generation ATMs with the contactless reading service. For now, 44 ATMs of the bank are already new and equipped with the contactless reading module. 

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ArmInfo. The private IT sector in Armenia is ready to implement a free educational program for servicemen who received disabilities during the Artsakh war.   Minister of High-Tech Industry of Armenia Hakob Arshakyan said this  at a government session on January 21. He noted that this program  will be carried out with the aim of re-profiling the latter in the IT  sector.

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ArmInfo.he Armenian government approved the signing of a loan agreement for additional financing for $ 7.4 million with the International Bank for  Reconstruction and Development within the framework of the disease  prevention and control program. This decision was made on January 21  at a regular meeting of the RA government.

ArmInfo."MTS Armenia" (VivaCell-MTS trademark) has become the leader among telecom operators on the list of the largest taxpayers in Armenia, rising to  the 10th position from the 14th a year earlier.

ArmInfo.The banking system of Armenia in 2020 reduced tax deductions to the state treasury by 10.1% - to 49.1 billion drams ($ 93.9 million). Of this amount, 87.2%  or 42.8 billion drams were paid under direct taxes, with a y-o-y  decline of 17%.

ArmInfo.The list of 1000 largest taxpayers in Armenia at the end of 2020 included 5 insurance companies out of 6 operating in the country, while a year earlier  there were only 3 in this list.

ArmInfo. As in the previous year, "Grand Tobacco" JV topped the list of the largest taxpayers in Armenia according to the results of 2020, having paid 50.7 billion  drams to the state treasury, or about $ 96.9 million (with a y-o-y  decline of 12.1%), of which 2.4 billion drams - on customs duties,  7.2 billion drams - on direct taxes (including income tax, profits  tax), 43.1 billion drams - on indirect taxes (including VAT, excise  tax). This is evidenced by the published data of the RA State Revenue  Committee.

ArmInfo.Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia) have approved the concept of a single financial market, RIA Novosti reported.

ArmInfo.The problem of unblocking transport communications must be resolved. Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan stated this on January 20 from the rostrum of  the parliament, answering the question of Arkady Khachatryan, MP from  the Bright Armenia faction.

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ArmInfo. On January 19, RA Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures Suren Papikyan held a video meeting with Pan Jinre, Deputy General Director  of the Chinese company Sinohydro Corporation, which is a contractor  for the construction of a road section from Talin to Gyumri within  the framework of the third tranche of the North-South transport  corridor construction project.

ArmInfo. The country faces a rather severe economic crisis, it is caused by both the coronavirus and the post-war situation. Member of the "Bright Armenia" faction  Arkady Khachatryan stated this in an interview with journalists.

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ArmInfo.The factor of subjectivity will be excluded in the work of the State Commission for the Protection of Economic Competition.