Iran's electricity network company manager, Masoud Hojjat informed that connection with Europe's electricity network was possible via Russia and Turkey. "Actually this could be done via Azerbaijan Republic and Georgia through Armenia as the mediator side," he stated.Maybe this will potentially help to solve the problem with Armenia's electricity needs, especially as it concerns the nuclear plant in Metsamor.
Armenian troops have registered this year 581 instances of ceasefire breaches by Azerbaijani troops along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, a significant rise from 273 breaches last year. A spokesman for the Armenian defense ministry Seyran Shahsuvarian said Armenian troops had to retaliate to only 58 breaches. He said this year Azeri troops used large-caliber machine guns and grenade cup dischargers when violating the ceasefire. Three Armenian villages of Voskepar, Aygepar and Chinar, all located in the north western province of Tavush, were shelled by Azeris eight times each.What do they want from us?
The spokesperson Seyran Shahsuvarian said the platoon comprises 30 truck drivers, 10 sappers, 3 medics and 2 officers.At least these are relatively low-risk tasks, even though a stray bullet from a machine gun hundreds of yards away does not differentiate between soldier and truck driver.
When asking in early December the Armenian parliament to extend the presence of the Armenian contingent in Iraq for another year defense minister Serzh Sarkisian said the peacekeeping mission in Iraq promotes enhancement of international standing of Armenia and its armed forces.
In the outgoing year Armenian athletes have won 89 medals at different international tournaments. Armen Grigorian, the deputy chief of sport department, said the main task of Armenian athletes next year will be to qualify for 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.I hope that we will see some gold medals in Beijing!
One Armenian athlete, shooter Norayr Bakhtamian, has already qualified for the Olympic Games.
Transmission of the First Channel (ORT) and RTR-Planeta Russian TV Channels will be stopped in Azerbaijan from January 2007...All those years of Soviet censorship have certainly influenced the future-minded Azerbaijanis. Now all they have to do is block the internet, censor the press, prosecute free speech, ban books, and so on. How far down the list are they?
The decision by the Azeri authorities might be conditioned by the information policy of the Russian TV Channels which cover developments in the Nagorno Karabakh Republic.
In 2007, Armenia's nature reserves will be opened for tourists, RA Minister of Nature Protection Vardan Aivazyan told reporters.Hundreds of thousands of careless tourists creeping their way through beautiful, vulnerable Armenian nature: what could possibly go wrong?
He said that ecotourism infrastructures will be formed and tourist routes elaborated.
The Minister pointed out that the ecosystem of nature reserves will not be affected.
Armenia intends to buy a building in Minsk for its embassy in Belarus, Armenian government's press office reports.$17,000? That's about enough to buy a used RAV4 in Armenia. Is this a building or a booth?
For that purpose, Armenian government has decided to enlarge the state revenue and expenditure by AMD 6.3mln/$17,300
An Armenian appeals court refused yesterday to order the release of a Lebanese-Armenian nationalist activist pending the politically charged investigation into his alleged plans to forcibly topple the government in Yerevan, Radio Liberty’s Armenian service reports.This is starting to sound like the Soviet Union - or Iran! Armenia obviously hasn't yet learned that competition is good, whether in business or in politics. Wait, who am I kidding? They know that very well, but they prefer power and money to the creation of a fair and equal country.
The Court of Appeals also upheld late day before yesterday the pre-trial detention of a senior member of a small opposition party who is facing the same accusations. Zhirayr Sefilian, the leader of a hard-line pressure group opposed to any concessions to Azerbaijan, and Vartan Malkhasian of the Fatherland and Honor party were arrested earlier this month and charged under an article of the Criminal Code that deals with public calls for a “violent overthrow of constitutional order.” Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) says they set up a clandestine organization, called the Alliance of Armenian Volunteers (HKH), to mount an armed uprising against the government during parliamentary elections expected next spring.
The court refused to release them on bail, saying that they could flee the country, obstruct justice or exert “illegal influence” on investigators.
