RSC CRITICAL OF PROPOSED TAX IDEA BY ARMENIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY

Details: Parent Category: News; Category: Media; 18 November 2016

In an interview with the Armenian “Lragir” news agency, RSC Analyst Mikayel Zolyan criticized the recent “1000 dram” fundraising drive by the Armenian Ministry of Defense through the imposition of a new “tax” on Armenian citizens as an unwarranted case of “extortion of the population.”

http://www.lragir.am/index/arm/0/interview/view/143033

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