Armenia hopes to send male, female skiers to 2018 OlympicsJanuary 15, 2018 - 14:31 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Secretary general of the Armenian Ski Federation Gagik Sargsyan expects that one male and one female athletes will represent the country at the Cross-country skiing event of 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Both Sergey Mikayelyan and Mikayel Mikayelyan have less than 100 points each (ascending system of points in ski - ed), but Sergey was unable to retain his position among the best 300 athletes due to injury, Sargsyan said, according to the National Olympic Committee. Also, the secretary general said that Armenian Alpine skiers are now training in Iran to collect points for the Olympic Games. Sargsyan expressed hope that at least one Armenian athlete will compete in the downhill skiing event in South Korea. Top stories Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". The earthquake caused a temporary blackout, damaged many buildings and closed a number of rural roads. Partner news | Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |