Improvement in business climate may become possible through raising the level of property rights protection in the country to stimulate capital inflow and simultaneously reduce its outflow, according to Sergey Grigoryan, Deputy Director of Association of Russian Banks analytical department.

Once again USA raises the question of opening the Armenian-Turkish border. Nothing new, in general: every time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits the region, in negotiations with the Armenian and Turkish leaders she necessarily puts forward the need for opening the border. This time she accused Turkish opposition, particularly Leader of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kilicdaroglu, of delaying and hindering the ratification process of Armenian-Turkish Protocols on normalization of relations.