Yerevan to ring in New Year without Christmas treeDecember 2, 2020 - 18:46 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Armenian capital of Yerevan will ring in the New Year with no Christmas tree and holiday lights, Mayor's spokesman Hakob Karapetyan told PanARMENIAN.Net on Wednesday, December 2. Karapetyan said the Yerevan City Hall has decided that the city will not be decorated ahead of 2021 at all. The city's Council of Elders earlier approved a proposal to send AMD 100 million (around $200,000) set aside for the arrangement of the holidays in the Armenian capital to Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh's capital. The money will be spent on the restoration of civilian infrastructure damaged or destroyed in Azerbaijan's shelling of the city. Top stories The number of state universities will be reduced from 23 to 8 by 2030, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Zhanna Andreasyan has said. From September 21 to November 11, a total of 2,820 Russians registered at a place of residence in Armenia, the police has said. The situation on the contact line between Karabakh and Azerbaijan was relatively stable overnight, the Defense Army says. Defense Minister Suren Papikyan has visited the southern Armenian province of Syunik, the Defense Ministry reported on March 18. Partner news | Armenia to participate in key EU meeting for the first time ever National Assembly speaker Alen Simonyan has said that Armenia will for the first time participate in the Conference. U.S. reacts to Russia’s criticism of upcoming Armenia-EU-U.S. meeting Matthew Miller has weighed in on Russia’s criticism of an upcoming Armenia-EU-U.S. meeting. Lavrov sees ‘collapse’ of Russia’s ties with Armenia Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has underscored heightened tensions between Russia and Armenia. Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine |