The new note, orange-brown in color, has raised print and a transparent window featuring a picture of “Europa,” the Greek goddess from whom the continent takes its name, on a metallic strip. It also has a portrait watermark and security thread. The number on it is emerald-colored, but changes color when moved from side to side.
This is a story about how six Armenian immigrants escaping looming atrocities in the Ottoman Empire, came to America and created a candy empire in small town Connecticut, winning a permanent place in confectionary history forever.
“Honorable Serzh Azatovich, Please, accept my congratulations over the victory of the Republican Party of Armenia in the elections of the National Assembly of Armenia. The results of the popular vote fully confirmed the high confidence enjoyed by personally you and the party led by you among the citizens of Armenia.
“It’s important to state on failure of Western powers. There was much noise about this, many resources and technological efforts have been wasted. However, people of Armenia have manifested historical wisdom, it chose the development vector, which throughout recent years has been actively developed by the leading political party,” Alexey Martynov said.
“I’d like to state on Armenia’s Electoral Code reforms and particularly on such a new process, which was named as ‘preferential voting system’. Elections are held by proportional order, however de facto we deal with some proportional component, we know there are polling stations, and as much as I understand, the very voting in favor of exact people seriously contributed to such victory of the leading Republican party.”
At least eight stations of the metro have been closed for passengers. Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged a thorough investigation. “We are considering all possible causes, including terrorism,” he said in a statement.
“I never speak of politics, although I have numerous friends in politics and during meetings with them we speak of art, literature, architecture, music. As for results of parliamentary elections I accept and welcome any election result, which took place by free manifestation of people’s will. Then, I don’t particularly sympathize people, who leave the country and start criticizing politics and the country.”
US President Donald Trump has declared he would be willing to go it alone to restrain North Korea’s nuclear weapons program should China fail to change the situation, saying if Beijing won’t help solve it, then “we will” alone, reports CNN.
President Serzh Sargsyan’s Republican Party was leading with 50.43 percent of the vote, while the opposition coalition behind Gagik Tsarukian – a former arm wrestler and one of the ex-Soviet state’s wealthiest men – was trailing with 28.29 percent. The nationalist Dashnaktsutyun were at 6.88 percent, leaving them also set to enter parliament.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange dodged an eviction order in Ecuador’s Sunday election, after the right-wing candidate who had vowed to kick him out of the country’s London embassy was set to narrowly lose a presidential election, Reuters reports.
