Armenian Government started Wednesday discussions over Ministries' 2009 reports. In his opening speech, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan said that all ministries had been recommended to prepare reports concerning their 2009 activities, focusing a major accent on their omissions and problems impeding reform implementation process. "Secondly, it is necessary to determine the priority tasks for 2010," Head of the Government said, adding that the reports submitted will help determine the positive results towards resolving key problems.

From the point of view of Ankara, Turkish Foreign Ministry gave an expected and, in a certain way, right assessment to the decision of the RA Constitutional Court on the Protocols of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations. Indeed, why should be ratified the protocols that do not at all bring together the Armenian and Turkish peoples, no matter how passionately the superpowers should long for it? After all, only three generations have passed, and it is too short a period to consign to oblivion the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. And if you take into account the general attitude of the Turkish society towards Armenians, it becomes clear that the Protocols were originally doomed to failure.

As expected, after a 10-day New Year holiday the first working week was politically eventful. The main event was the assembly of the Constitutional Court of Armenia, which was to issue a verdict on the Armenian-Turkish Protocols. More acute was Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's unexpected visit to Yerevan.

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.