The Armenian government has discussed usage of Armenian Unicode fonts for state structures’ records. “Armenian state structures are using various encodings in their work. Moreover, their websites are often unreadable because of the encoding used,” Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan said. He also instructed all Ministers to open e-mails at gov.am domain. According to head of the government administration David Sargsyan, the problem may be resolved in a couple of weeks.

Secretary of the Armenian National Security Council Arthur Baghdasaryan met with Eurasia academy president Oleg Poptsov, rector of Moscow Institute of TV and Radio Vasily Karelsky, political observer Leonid Ioffe and rector of the Armenian Academy of TV and Radio hamlet Ghushyan to discuss information security and digitalization issues. “Armenian-Russian cultural ties need to be expanded,” the NSC Secretary said.

The excavations in the territory of the ancient fortress of Van Kingdom - Erebuni (782 BC) -have been carried out gradually due to a number of reasons.

The International Financial Corporation (IFC) experts believe that Armenia holds the biggest potential in the Caucasus to construct hydropower plants. It is important to have renewable energy sources inside the country, as currently Armenia is importing 2/3 of energy sources.

It has probably become a norm for Baku to talk about “inaction of the OSCE and change of format” at every international forum. But the arguments are not serious, such as “This organization cannot possibly regulate the Karabakh conflict, return the territories, punish Armenia” and other such nonsense. The recent revelation of Baku in Yerevan was voiced at the conference of the Socialist International (SI). In response to the request (it can be given no other name) of Azeri representative Salahuddin Allahverdiyev, who asked the Socialist International to engage in the settlement of the Karabakh conflict, Secretary General Luis Ayala only shrugged his shoulders. Then he explained that the SI cannot deal with such things as it’s not its job, but Baku, obviously, wouldn’t understand such things.

Boxing: 3 Armenian boxers – Hovhannes Davtyan, Hrachik Javakhyan and Arthur Khachatryan – broke through to the semifinal of the European Championships going on in Moscow, Russia. Vanes Martirosyan (28-0, 17KOs) won the battle of the unbeaten junior middleweights with a unanimous ten round decision over Joe Greene (22-1, 14KOs) to retain the NABF/NABO super welterweight titles. The official scores were 96-93, 96-93 and 98-91.

Traditionally, the political week in Armenia started with discussions on the Karabakh conflict settlement. Chairman of Prosperous Armenia party Gagik Tsarukyan said that Nagorno Karabakh can never be an article of commerce. “We should detect problems and solve them. Our basic principle is the achievement of goals and implementation of programs. Specifically, we aim to stir up activity for the international recognition of NKR,” he said. Tsarukyan also remarked that Russia has always been Armenia’s ally, thus his party will always be adherent to development and boosting of strategic, friendly and economic ties between the two countries.