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.
On behalf of the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity, we would like to publicly express our gratitude for your unyielding commitment to raising awareness and rallying support for the world’s most vulnerable people during your term as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Vladimir Hakobyan added, “The issue of return of any territory may be object only in case of resolution of NK’s status. The settlement package enshrines the necessity of land connection between Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh. Any enclave status can’t even be touched upon.”
That Russia is pulling Armenia ever closer is upsetting to some in Azerbaijan, where some lawmakers are asking for reconsideration of their country’s close relations with Russia. Azerbaijan’s relationship with Armenia is fraught over, among other things, the frozen conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, in which Russia has played peacemaker, and from which it has therefore sometimes been accused of benefiting.
In the period of January-September 2016 export volume from Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) member countries comprised USD 274.1 million. As compared to the same period of the previous year, export from Armenia to EEU has grown by 55.2%. This information was provided by the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) database.
Donald Trump is pretty sore that he’s going to lose the popular vote by as much as two percentage points. So he’s lashing out, launching baseless accusations of large-scale voter fraud to explain why he lost the popular vote even as he managed to win the electoral college.
According to Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan’s decisions, Boris Demirkhanyan and Arman Khachatryan were appointed Deputy Ministers of Transport, Communication and Information Technologies.
