The Guard kicked off 10 days of war games, its latest show of military force amid a standoff with the West over Iran's nuclear program.

“In their joint statement the Presidents noted that they had improved their understanding on a number of issues,” Victoria Nuland said.

Football: Armenian forwards Gevorg Ghazaryan and Marcos Pizzelli signed 3-year contracts with Metallurg Donetsk. “We have closely watches the guys’ career, so there was no need for a try-out,” Metallurg sports director Vardan Israelyan said. The first match the Armenian forwards played as part of the Ukrainian FC was a friendly against Ujpest (Hungary) on June 21. Earlier, Metallurg signed a contract with Armenian midfielder Karlen Mkrtchyan.

In January 2011, Brazil formally nominated Dr. José Graziano da Silva, currently serving as Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for Latin America and the Caribbean, for the Office of Director-General of the FAO. The nomination is supported by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, and marks Brazil’s first nomination in history to the FAO.

The first difficulty that Armenia encountered in the post crisis period is the insufficiently diversified economy, according to Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan. “Reacting on crisis, Armenia focused on three directions: diversification, improvement of infrastructure and business environment,” the PM said in an interview with CNN. “Further we hope to boost business environment and overcome consequences of crisis by means of consecutive efforts directed at implementation of reforms,” he said.