Armenia

According to ALLCITYCODES.COM, the area code for Armenia is 374. It is located in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), and is one of the South Caucasus countries that use the NANP system. The 374 code is used to make calls within Armenia, as well as making international calls to and from other countries in the NANP system. The country has three main landlines operators, Armentel, Ucom, and VivaCell-MTS, all of which offer competitive rates for local, regional, and international calls. In addition to landlines, there are several mobile networks in Armenia such as Armentel (GSM/UMTS/LTE), Ucom (GSM/UMTS/LTE), VivaCell-MTS (GSM/UMTS/LTE), Orange (GSM/UMTS), Beeline (GSM) and Vivacell-MTC (GSM). Customers can purchase prepaid sim cards from any of these providers in order to make calls to local numbers or international numbers within the NANP system. All of these networks offer competitive rates for both local and international calls. For those who need to make international calls from Armenia outside of the NANP system, there are several third-party service providers that offer competitive rates on making such calls. These include International Call Cards (ICC), which allow customers to purchase calling minutes at a discounted rate; World Phone Card International Calling Services; VoIP services such as Skype; prepaid calling cards; or through VoIP apps like Viber or Whatsapp.  Armenia is a unitary, multi-party, democratic nation-state with an ancient cultural heritage. The politics of Armenia are based on a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic whereby the President is the head of state and the Prime Minister is the head of government in a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament. The unicameral National Assembly or Azgayin Zhoghov has 131 members elected for five-year terms. Since 1995, political power in Armenia has been concentrated in the hands of one political party, the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA). The RPA has dominated Armenian politics since winning a majority in 2003 elections, but it has faced challenges from other parties including Prosperous Armenia, Rule of Law and Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF). The Constitution also grants substantial autonomy to Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave within Azerbaijan that declared independence during the collapse of Soviet Union. PARADISDACHAT: Features public policy of Armenia.