Freestyle Wrestling: Armenia's Ruslan Basiev (w/c 120) and Mihran Jaburyan (w/c 55 kg) won silver at the 2010 Takhti Cup freestyle wrestling tournament which ended in Isfahan (Iran) on February 19. Zhirayr Hovhannisyan (w/c 66) and Edgar Yenokyan (w/c 96) won bronze. Armenian freestyle wrestling coach Araik Baghdadyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter that he is satisfied with the performance of his sportsmen.

February 15 is International Childhood Cancer Day. New cases of cancer in Armenia account for 7000 annually, including about 100 children under 15. The figure is terrifying, although they don’t differ much from the world statistics. Cancer is a very insidious disease without marked initial symptoms. In most cases, the latent period of the disease is durable and it can hardly be detected in the initial stage.

Monday, February 22, Armenian Parliament postponed discussion of the Armenian-Turkish Protocols. The formal reason for postponement was the request of Chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations of the National Assembly Armen Rustamyan, who claimed the commission had not yet prepared a conclusion on the Protocols.

Armenian entry for the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest was selected in a national final Sunday, February 14. The winner, Eva Rivas, was picked by a combined vote of the TV public (SMS voting) and an expert jury.

Thus, the Armenian-Turkish Protocols reached an impasse, or rather fell into the trap set by Azerbaijan and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey. Detentions of senior military officials, who are accused of the coup attempt organized in 2003 may lead to two consequences: either there will really be a military coup, or the secular government will be finally replaced by an Islamic one. In either case the country will have to face instability and setback that will immediately reflect on ratification of the Protocols by the Turkish Parliament.

The GDP in Armenia grew by 2,4% in January 2010, compared with January 2009 results, to comprise AMD 149,5 billion.

Armenian mobile services market edged closer to full saturation in 2009, with nearly every working adult in the country of 3.2 million people having one or more mobile phones, and the number of mobile subscribers passing the 2,5 million mark. While the mobile operators say that there is still a lot of room to grow and compete, the question is – how exactly that competition will take place, and will the customers and the telecom sector benefit from the fight for market or otherwise.