Armenian Foreign Ministry team wins PM Brain Ring CupFebruary 18, 2012 - 09:23 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Yerevan hosted the Prime Minister’s Brain Ring Cup involving teams from the ministries, departments and state institutions of the republic. The team of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia beat the team of the Healthcare Ministry 5:0 in the tournament which brought together 24 groups. The State Property Management Department ranked the third. Grigor Saribekyan from Yerevan municipality was recognized the best player of the tournament. Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan presented the awards, the Cup, books and certificates to the winners. He congratulated the tournament participants saying hopefully everybody was happy with it. “I’m glad to see the number of participants increase. It will encourage creation of groups tending to engage in healthy intellectual competition,” PM Sargsyan said. He also noted the progress in the work of the Foreign Ministry, and said the victory came to prove it. For his part, leader of the Foreign Ministry’s team Hayk Khemchyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter that the tournament was organized perfectly. He said the team level was improved, and they succeeded to score a victory in a hard struggle. The tournament was organized with support of the Armenian Association of Intellectuals. Top stories David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has met with Stephan Schütz, Executive Partner at Gerkan, Marg and Partners. 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. Partner news | Ucom Celebrates Telecommunication Day May 17 commemorates the founding of the International Telecommunication Union on May 17, 1865. Armenian, Azerbaijani heads of parliament meet in Switzerland President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova. Azerbaijan extends Ruben Vardanyan’s arrest by 5 months A court in Azerbaijan has extended the arrest of former Nagorno-Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan by five months. Armenia border residents dissatisfied with delimitation Residents Kirants are dissatisfied with the results of the delimitation of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. |