The EU does not see significant steps in the implementation of the Minsk agreements by Russia, and therefore to talk about the easing of sanctions against the country prematurely. This was stated by foreign Minister of Germany and current Chairman of the OSCE , Frank-Walter Steinmeier in an interview with the German Funke media group, reports Deutsche Welle.

News was being circulated on issues of this big company yet from the previous year. Then it turned out that the news not only corresponds to the reality, but everything is even more serious—the company goes to bankruptcy.

“Essence of the third scenario is Assad’s escape, after which the crisis will more intensify, as no matter whom he’ll intend to pass the power, he won’t have that authority to be acceptable for all the sides, which will again lead to a civil war. In fact, the situation gives a reason for rather pessimistic anticipations: Syria is divided into different territories, it’s not clear how Kurdish issue will be settled,” Malashenko said.

“This short period of Karen Karapetyan’s tenure showed that he, indeed, is a man of action. Today the Prime Minister has given new breath and freshness to the Government’s work, showing that the only way to solve problems is the modern flexible and effective administration.”

As a theoretical physicist based in Cambridge, I have lived my life in an extraordinarily privileged bubble. Cambridge is an unusual town, centred around one of the world’s great universities. Within that town, the scientific community that I became part of in my 20s is even more rarefied.

“The extension of the sanctions by the US Congress is a violation of the nuclear program deal. We will inform it to Iran’s committee, assigned to monitor the implementation of the deal,” Iranian MFA’s spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said. Earlier TASS reported the US Senate has passed a bill to extend sanctions against Iran for 10 years.

“The authorities pursue their policy themselves. Can pressures totally lack? As much as we are oppressed, the more we have the right to protect our interest, i.e. go against. If we go back to the April war: who provided armaments to Azerbaijan? How Azerbaijan entitled itself to attack on Armenia? Was that the initiative by Azerbaijan alone?”

The data issued by the RA National Statistical Service (NSS) yesterday make this upsetting snapshot even more complete. Thus, NSS issued GDP data for the third quarter of 2016 (from 2011 GDP calculations are being introduced once in a quarter). In the third quarter of ongoing year Armenia’s GDP comprised AMD 1 trillion 518.3 billion.

One of my earliest memories is begging my father, Hamlet, to take me to training with his football club in France. I was maybe five years old. In the ’80s, before I was born, my dad played in the old Soviet Top League in our home country of Armenia. He was a small but very quick striker. Soviet Soldier magazine actually honored him with its “Knight of Attack” award in 1984.

Tigran Khachatryan, Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Investments, stated that the Ministry attempts to find all the possibilities, by which continuity of production with “Ashtarak Kat” Company may be guaranteed. “We attempt to guarantee workplaces for the Company’s employees. This is very important for peasants, who had a long activity with the company and sold their agricultural goods. This is a complicated process and decision wasn’t made in a day.”