Year by year it is becoming harder and harder for Turkey to confront recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Sometimes it seems Ankara has concentrated all its efforts on preventing recognition of the crimes committed by the Young Turks in 1915-1923. It seems at first sight that every year after April 24 Turkey sighs with relief and falls back into her old ways. But everything is much more serious this time: at stake is reputation of the powers that were the guarantors for the signing and further ratification of the Protocols on normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations.

The government of Armenia accepted the proposal of Moscow Cinema LLC directorate on the gratuitous alienation of the land area on Abovyan 18 str., Yerevan, a public property occupied by Moscow Cinema Open-Air Hall, for the benefit of Holy Etchmiadzin, thus conferring it a property right to construct a new church on the site of former Surb Poghos-Petros Church, dismantled by Soviet authorities. Such a hasty governmental decision caused unrest among Armenian civil society, who now use every chance to express their disagreement on the issue. The fact is rather surprising, for Armenians’ passion for church-building is famous worldwide. It is the choice of the construction site that causes people’s discontent.

Wrestling: Armenian national Greco-Roman wrestling team coach Levon Julfalakyan informed PanARMENIAN.Net of the RA National Olympic Committee’s decision not to send wrestlers to European Championship to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan. “Thus, our sportsmen will have enough time to train for the World Championships Moscow will host September 6 to 12,” he said.

Political week in Armenia began with a four-day parliamentary sitting. “Turkish authorities, signing a document and making statements contradicting the latter, can’t be taken seriously,” NA Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan told a news conference in Yerevan. According to him, such actions show that Turkish authorities disrespect both themselves and the agreements made. “As to ratification of the Protocols, let me repeat that we discussed the issue with our coalition partners and stick to the position already announced: Armenian parliament will take no further steps until Turkey ratifies the Protocols,” Abrahamyan emphasized.

Celebrated over 27 years, March 15, World Consumer Rights Day was marked in 2010 under “Our money -our rights” motto. On a level with 180 public and state organizations from 72 countries of the world in charge of consumer rights issues, Armenian National Association of Consumers has been supporting activities of World Consumer Organization (CI) for 12 years.

The government announced plans to connect most of Armenia’s general and secondary schools to the internet and join them into a unified network by 2011. The director of National Center for Educational Technologies Areg Grigoryan said 624 schools are already connected to the world wide web with plans pending to connect 750 more schools to the internet once work on building the dedicated network is completed as part of a World Bank funded project.

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.