“These are markets, where Armenia has a beneficial status, it will provide the opportunity to implement wide-scale export. Businessmen are interested in a few fields— mechanical engineering, machine-tool construction, food processing, information technologies and etc,” A.Ghazaryan said.

George Clooney has just arrived in Armenia. Among those welcoming famous couple was businessman Ruben Vardanyan. George Clooney will participate in the first awarding ceremony of the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity, News.am reports.

Peter Balakian, an English professor at Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., shot to the top of the poetry world on Monday when his new collection, “Ozone Journal,” won a Pulitzer Prize, The Washington Post reports. The judges praised his verse for bearing “witness to the old losses and tragedies that undergird a global age of danger and uncertainty.”

“The perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide were the Ottoman Empire, whose descendants are the modern Turkish Republic. On top of our grandparents’ bones in the desert in Syria are the new bones of the Yazidis, Syrians and others being murdered by ISIS. It’s more than just irony—it’s fucking political reality.”

Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York, announced 24 April 2016 as Armenian Genocide Commemoration Day. The Governor’s Press Service informs that Cuomo pays tribute to the Armenian Genocide victims, as well as to the survivors who resettled in New York after the massacres. Residents of New York join the Armenian community to remind the events of the past and the lessons learned.

“Let’s call things by their proper names. Ilham Aliyev and his regime have committed true crime against our people. I’m not afraid to state this. Maybe such human losses would be justified, if our flag today wove in Khankendi (Stepanakert), Shushi, or at least Azerbaijani territories near Karabakh were liberated, which is called a security zone. This isn’t available, isn’t it?”

In his turn, Edward Nalbandyan, RA MFA, enumerated proposals made by the Azerbaijani side in Moscow before Sochi. “This way we may go back even to ten years and reach Paris negotiations,” Nalbandyan said.

He announced that a parliamentary commission needs to be set up to investigate the 1915 massacre of the Armenian members of the then Ottoman parliament. He demanded to locate their corpses and properly bury them. Paylan compared Talaat, Enver and Djemal Pashas with Hitler.

Armenian Photo-editing app PicsArt intends to grow in China and Japan after getting $20 million in fresh funding from DCM Ventures and Siguler Guff & Company, TechCrunch.com reports.

Leader by asset volumes is Ameriabank (AMD 507.7 billion), which is followed by Ardshininvestbank (AMD 461.1 billion) and VTB Armenia Bank (AMD 314.8 billion). In percentage the biggest growth of assets throughout the quarter was recorded by Ardshininvestbank (15.1 %), and the biggest decrease—by BTA Bank (19.8%).