The appreciation of Armenia’s national currency, the dram, observed in the past two weeks (seeing the dollar exchange rate dropping from 400 per dram down to 375-378) is likely to continue as the economy has seen a 64 percent rise in exports in January-April this year and tendencies for a growing amount of remittances from abroad. But the former Central Bank chairman Bagrat Asatryan still thinks the biggest factor of this continued appreciation is “the desire of some persons.”