YEREVAN. – The National Statistical Service (NSS) of Armenia recently issued the country’s macroeconomic indicators for January and February of the current year, according to which the services sector registered a growth of 9.8 percent, according to 168 Zham daily. 

“And it turns out that the locomotive of the services sector, is the culture, the ‘entertainment and recreation’ subsector; it grew by 50.5 percent (…).Unfortunately, as one can guess, this growth was not registered on the account of the intensification of the activities of the theaters or galleries, but of the casinos [of Armenia]. This is not a speculation, but a result of the analyses of the International Monetary Fund,” 168 Zham wrote.