Culture: Armenia regains activity in global cultural eventsLast week was notable for the following cultural events: February 4, 2010 The140th birth anniversary of Komitas was marked in Kaiser-Wilhelm Church in Berlin last week. The event started with a service offered by Archimandrite Eghishe, the spiritual leader of the Armenian community of Berlin. Armenia and world: Turkey facing a choice or a stalemate?Currently Ankara does not look back at the USA and may at any moment cease to be its true strategic ally, especially since there is almost a replacement in the form of Russia. February 2, 2010 Normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations, as well as settlement of the Karabakh conflict reached a deadlock, and important role in this process played Azerbaijan, zigzagging from Turkey to Iran and backwards. Lack of national identity influenced the position of Caucasian Tatars in the region: on the one hand they are Shiahs and they must have a propensity for Iran, on the other hand they call themselves Turks, thus giving preference to Turkey. Economy: Delegations from Iran, Georgia and Italy visited Armenia this week.During a meeting with the Iranian delegation led by Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan discussed a number of energy issues and construction of Iran-Armenia railway. January 30, 2010 Facilitation of custom procedures to promote product turnover between the countries, cooperation between commercial structures, state and private organizations, as well as promotion of joint investments, conferences, business forums and other events were also in focus.  Politics: Currently Armenia has no domestic resources for coup d'étatHome policy review for January 25-31, 2010 January 30, 2010 The internal political life of Armenia acquired its former course, and the past week was marked by the visits of a number of distinguished guests from neighbouring countries. Yerevan hosted Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, Prime Minister of Georgia Nikoloz Gilauri and Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov. The week was also devoted to various estimates by political forces and experts concerning the trilateral meeting between the Presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia in Sochi. IT & Telecom: How soon will Armenian Internet users have access to the benefits of global IT-accomplishments?While the focus of the global IT sector is on the developments of unprecedented competition between information market giants Google and Microsoft, the Government of Armenia continues the discussions on the implementation of global projects on e-governmen August 13, 2009 For the past month the focus of Internet-users and IT specialists around the world has been on three main events, namely the completion of the new operating system Windows 7 - the product of Microsoft Corporation, the release of the fast browser Chrome by Google and the work on our own operating system (OS). Society: Armenia celebrates the Holy ResurrectionThe symbols of Easter in the old days were straw dolls Grandma Utis, mistress of the Armenian cuisine, and Grandpa Paz, who held in hands exactly 40 threads, a stone being tied at the end of each one. April 11, 2009 On April 11, the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) begins to celebrate the Easter, one of the six patronal festivals. From sunset till late night all the churches of the Armenian Apostolic Church serve Liturgy that marks the end of Lent and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. The celebration of the dead and resurrected god dates back to the ancient Egyptian religion, when the Egyptians celebrated the death and resurrection of God Osiris. Present Christian Easter takes its origin from the Old Testament. The old Jews celebrated the Passover (Pesach) as the holiday of exodus of Jews from Egypt. |  Topics of the day Articles Millions of dollars in investments and stimulation of economy  3 Armenian startups en route to becoming unicorns |
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