There is something symbolic in the fact that important, one might even say fateful meetings of the Heads of States are usually held in cities with a "bad" reputation. It turns out that these meetings are either doomed to failure from the very beginning, or, at worst, one of the sides ends up losing. Alas, no exception is the upcoming meeting in Munich on November 22, when the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet at a regular gathering to discuss the possible ways of breaking the deadlock, called the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement.

Major events of the past week were the responses of various Armenian political parties to external factors, particularly to the statements of Turkish officials, and several political parties' assessment of the state budget of Armenia for the year of 2010.

On November 12, "Heritage" party submitted to Parliament's staff 56 proposals concerning draft law "On RA State Budget".

Party disapproves the bill which does not envisage an anti-crisis policy. 2010 State Budget serves the interests of officials and monopoly system, demonstrating authorities' inability to combat shadow economy and tax evasion by macro-entrepreneurs.

According to "Heritage", 2010 state budget exceeds last year's indexes by 4.5 times and cannot provide solution to current social-economic problems, "Heritage" party's press service reports.

A couple of years ago I had a chance of an interview with Robert Sahakyants and one could not assume at that time that he would leave the world so soon. We all knew he was ill, but no one suspected how serious the illness was. He was one of those without whom, in his opinion, everything would sink in sweet syrup. All that you'll read further are his direct words, as we thought no one could speak of Robert Sahakyants and the world surrounding him better than he himself. For some reason he always spoke Russian, although he knew his native language perfectly well. Call it freak of a genius if you like, but now that he is gone words, however beautiful they might be, are needless.

For the past month the focus of Internet-users and IT specialists around the world has been on three main events, namely the completion of the new operating system Windows 7 - the product of Microsoft Corporation, the release of the fast browser Chrome by Google and the work on our own operating system (OS).

On April 11, the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) begins to celebrate the Easter, one of the six patronal festivals. From sunset till late night all the churches of the Armenian Apostolic Church serve Liturgy that marks the end of Lent and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. The celebration of the dead and resurrected god dates back to the ancient Egyptian religion, when the Egyptians celebrated the death and resurrection of God Osiris. Present Christian Easter takes its origin from the Old Testament. The old Jews celebrated the Passover (Pesach) as the holiday of exodus of Jews from Egypt.