The RA state revenue committee exceeded the quotas at the beginning of the year.

There is a large number of uncertainties which can cast a shadow on Ankara’s willingness to ratify the Protocols.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).