According to data of the RA Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, there are over 180,000 registered people with disabilities in Armenia.

A range of books translated into Bulgarian was published as part of Armenia’s Year in Bulgaria festival, at the initiative of the Armenian Embassy.

The event aims to increase awareness of the disabled issues and draw the employees’ attention to their work potential.

The state bonds yield hit AMD 928.4mln.

VivaCell-MTS has secured the necessary radio spectrum frequencies needed to begin the construction of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in Yerevan and Armenia’s regions. The decision to grant VivaCell-MTS a license for LTE network services was passed during the November 10 meeting of the Public Services Regulatory Commission of Armenia. The LTE license stipulates that VivaCell-MTS would have to launch commercial operations by March 1, 2011. The license will be valid until November 4, 2019 and will cost AMD990 million. For the first time in CIS, LTE network was put into operation in Tashkent in the end of July 2010. A test launch of LTE mobile network technology in Armenia was scheduled for December 1, 2010.