Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho says he was “protecting” Armenian Henrikh Mkhitaryan by not playing him at the start of Manchester United’s Premier League campaign. During the match with Leicester City Armenian international scored for the fifth time this season, and was unsurprisingly a topic of conversation in Mourinho’s post-match press conference.
President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan appointed Davit Tonoyan to the post of minister of emergency situations on February 6, the President’s Office informed.
President Donald Trump’s recent executive order temporarily freezing immigration from seven predominantly Islamic countries would affect only about 12% of the world’s Muslims, according to estimates from a 2015 Pew Research Center report on the current and projected size of religious groups. In fact, of the seven countries named in the new immigration ban – Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen – only one, Iran, is among the 10 countries with the largest Muslim populations.
0.7% decrease was recorded in Armenia in the field of services rendered to the population in January 2017 compared with December 2016, which is mainly a result of tariff drop in the fields of housing and communal services—1.8% (linked to reduction of gas fuel selling through pipelines by 5.2%), culture—0.9%.
The dream of Bagrat Alexanyan – a soldier who was killed during the April War fighting, is coming true: The collection of his poems will be published in 2017, poet Shant Mkrtchyan, publishing director of the Union of Writers of Armenia informed.
Four EU officials said member governments intend by mid-March to prolong the sanctions for another six months on more than 100 Ukrainians and Russians. Among them: Arkady Rotenberg, co-owner of SMP Bank and InvestCapitalBank, and Yury Kovalchuk, the biggest shareholder in Bank Rossiya.
“Thus, perspectives will generally lack, that union works very badly, agreements signed aren’t being implemented, projects aren’t realized, moreover when Russia—the top interested party of the union—faces crisis and isn’t bale to support countries in need.”
Decrease in the field of construction has already become usual. The then driving force of economy started to rush down from 2009 and the process continues until now. Upon the data of National Statistical Service of Armenia construction volumes comprise AMD 397.6 billion in 2016, which is less by 10.8% from previous year’s index.
Morgenthau was convinced that Wilson was the best candidate to reshape an international order that had descended into savagery. In the preceding nine months, he had seen it with his own eyes, as the Ottoman government carried out an unspeakable offense against its people, slaughtering more than a million ethnic Armenians.
“The best means in fight against migration is creation of workplaces. It seems to me, this year we’ll edify the result of reforms. PM’s visit to Russia, meeting with the businessmen, and generally, relations with many other countries, and the change, ongoing in the country, gave hope to many businessmen to invest in Armenia.”
