“In process, I expect you too to take your mission with the same sense of responsibility. I expect you to be not only free and independent but also, as we always say, truly unbiased and fair, but not a tool in the pre-election struggle.”

“Let the forthcoming year be a year of peace, achievements in our families, and not a single bullet could reach our soldiers,” Vardan Aramyan, RA Minister of Finance, told a press conference today summarizing the year.

There can be no doubt anymore about one more United Nations failure. The old Security Council structure, in the last decades, had prevented effective solutions for humanitarian tragedies, as it occurred in Rwanda, Bosnia, Congo and, now, in Aleppo.

The electricity prices in Armenia have been revised. The electricity tariff for consumers decreased by 1.22 drams. The session of the Public Services Regulatory Commission defined the following tariffs for consumers sold by “Electric Networks of Armenia.”

Visit of Iranian president to Armenia, bilateral statements made during those several hours, caused a big stir among political and expert circles, because as a result of the visit, basically, the circle of expectations related to Armenia-Iran relations was clearly shaped. And time will show what reflection those quite different expectations will have, in which volume and how they’ll be implemented.

Thousands of people celebrated liberation of Aleppo from militants in the center of the city. In its honor the orchestra of Syrian-Armenians, dressed in Santas, played the well-known “Zartnir, lao,” which is a symbol of Armenians’ fight against the Osman Empire.

“Azerbaijanis seem to make all possible proposals, however, considerable part of those proposals have been made, under the conditions of race with Armenia or contrary to Armenia, and their considerable part contains incomprehensible issues.”

“Today I asked the President of Iran to encourage major Iranian businessmen to come here and establish their businesses and for my turn I also promised to do the same in the Islamic Republic of Iran,” President Sargsyan said.

“We don’t observe any obstacles, the security available in Armenia and Iran, is of paramount importance. It’s a good ground for economic cooperation. We should take steps toward preferred tariffs and trade between both Iran and Armenia, as well as Iran and EEU, member of which is Armenia, and soon a convention will be held, and we hope that the first step between Iran and EEU will take place for preferred trade,” Rouhani said.

In 2009, when she was a graduate student working on her final-year research project in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Elbakyan became frustrated at being unable to read many scholarly papers because she couldn’t afford them. So she learnt how to circumvent publishers’ paywalls.