Major events of the past week were the visit of the NKR parliamentary delegation to Armenia, the arrival of Turkish journalists and the inner-party conflicts in the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party of Armenia. As usual several sharp statements were made by ARF Dashnaktsutyun. A number of political scientists assessed the current state of Armenian-Turkish relations. There was also the anticipated reaction from the Republican Party of Armenia in relation to its party members - the RA National Assembly MPs, who had spoken in support of Sasun Mikaelyan.

The crisis taught lessons to Armenia and highlighted its main shortcomings: weak diversification and lack of competitiveness, therefore, to overcome the effects of the crisis the country should provide three essential conditions, head of World Bank Armenian Office Aristomene Varoudakis said. According to him, in order to increase competitiveness of Armenian economy the country need to creating more favorable environment for investors, reduce the role of oligopolies, minimize, or even eliminate corruption in tax authorities, develop infrastructures, particularly in transport and IT spheres," he said.

Turkey stepped up its efforts in the struggle for regional leadership because of the weakness of Egypt. According to the Egyptian opposition, Turkey and Iran make use of the weakness of the Arab world to conquer the whole region with the help of Islam. In the opinion of Mustafa Bakri, editor-in-chief of the Egyptian weekly newspaper Al Osboa, Iran wants the entire region to be Shia, and Turkey's ambitions go even further. "Sooner or later Iraq will become a Kurdistan, so we can only hope for the Arab unity. We adhere to the covenants of President Nasser. This primarily refers to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Gamal Abdel Nasser used to say: What was taken by force, can be returned only by force," stressed Bakri.

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).