Congratulating Armenian citizens on Europe Day, the European Movement of Armenia expressed hope that RA will join the European Union one day.

Armenia’s Ambassador to Egypt Armen Melkonyan met with Dr. Zahi Hawass, the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities.

Recently, the State Committee of Revenues published the Analysis of Summarized Indices of Large Taxpayers' Monitoring in February 2010. Basically, positive indices were recorded for 344 largest taxpayers of Armenia; specifically the volume of goods and services imported to Armenia totaled AMD 53.4 billion in February 2010 that is 55.1% higher as compared with the same period of last year. Meanwhile, the increase of this index is conditioned not only by goods’ import for commercial purposes, but also by import of expensive equipment to Armenia. It had a direct impact on customs fees, which amounted to 10.9 billion in February 2010 that is 49.9% higher as compared with the same period of last year. Besides, the volumes of goods exported by the largest taxpayers totaled AMD 19.8 billions in February 2010 that is 9.3bln higher as compared with the same period of last year.

No matter how eagerly Turkey hopes that after April 24 it’ll be possible to forget about the Armenian Genocide for at least a year, it never happens. This time the troublemakers were Israel and Ukraine. But for one nuisance, it would have been reasonable: both of these countries seem to be allies and partners of Turkey and Azerbaijan.

Armenian cellular operator VivaCell-MTS joined the Armenian Fund for Internet Traffic Exchange (ARMIX), following Orange Armenia, ADC, Ucom, iCon, Web, Apaga Technologies, GNC Alfa, Shirak Technologies and other telecommunications companies.