Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization will be held in Yerevan on 11-12 March. Issues of fighting against international terrorism and threats of extremism will be discussed at the session.
Discussions of the draft Tax code chaired by Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan went on at the Government on March 1 with the participation of the representatives of interested state agencies.
President Serzh Sargsyan sent a congratulatory message to the renowned author, expert in Armenian studies, translator and intellectual Kim Bakshi on March 1, wishing him excellent health and new creative achievements.
FIDE has published the rankings of March 2016. Leader of the Armenian National chess team Levon Aronyan has dropped to the 7th place with 2786 points.Previously he was ranked 4th. The ranking tops world champion Magnus Carlsen with 2851 points. Vladimir Kramkin is on the 2nd place with 2801 points, and Fabiano Caruana is the 3rd, with 2794 points. Among the list of top players is Grandmaster Gabriel Sargsyan, who is ranked 42nd with 2702 points.
In accordance with the arrangement reached with the government of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission will conduct a monitoring of the Nagorno Karabakh-Azerbaijani line of contact in the Askeran direction on March 2.
The adversary fired over 900 shots from different caliber weapons in the direction of Armenian front line units on the contact line of Karabakh-Azerbaijan opposing armies during Feb. 29-March 1. As 168.am was informed from the press service of NKR Defense Ministry, the adversary also used 60 mm mortar (1 projectile) in the eastern direction of the contact line.
The Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi International Airport defined a special schedule for aircrafts, whereas daytime flights will be suspended from March 1 – July 1. The airport’s administration stated that the reason of suspending daytime flights is the reconstruction of the runway.
Sevan Bıçakçı was born 1965 in Istanbul; Turkey is a famed jeweler of Armenian descent. He is one of the few renowned jewelers in Turkey and is known around the world. He is considered a “star jeweler” in Turkey.
Like in 2015, growth in industry is totally conditioned by growth of mining. Thus, production of mining industry and exploitation of open-cast mines comprised AMD 19.2 billion in January of current year. It exceeds the indicator for 2015 by 75%.
Krzysztof Zanussi, Polish director, awardee of film festivals of Venice, Cannes and etc., this week proposes 168.am readers to watch “The Seventh seal” by Ernst Ingmar Bergman, which Bergman himself considers his best creation and favorite movie. Krzysztof Zanussi thinks, from the standpoint of cinematographic literacy the film is among the must-see.
