Invest for the Future: Women Driving Economic Growth conference will be attended by 125 businesswomen from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Greece, Cyprus and Turkey on Jan. 24-26.

In Judo International Federation's World Masters Championship final, Galstyan lost to world leader in 60 kg weight class, Uzbekistan's Rishod Sobirov.

Communication sector proceeds grossed 152,4 bln in January–November 2010 in Armenia, exceeding 2009’s index by 0,3%. According to the National Statistical Service of Armenia, proceeds from IT and communication (ITC) services totaled AMD 174 billion, growing by 1,1% compared with 2009 results. ITC share comprises 24,6% of the total volume of services rendered in Armenia.

The world economy is moving from a post-crisis bounce-back phase of the recovery to slower but still solid growth this year and next, with developing countries contributing almost half of global growth, according to the World Bank’s latest Global Economic Prospects 2011.

For 21 years, beginning from January 13 the Azerbaijani press is flooded with hysterical articles about the “Baku events of 1990”. Orwellian “five minutes of hatred” extended into 21 years, and most probably this is not the limit for Baku, which with admirable persistence and constancy continues spreading myths about the “massacre of Azerbaijanis by the Armenians”. At all costs the Aliyev clan wants the world sold on the “innocence and naivety of Azerbaijanis”, who allegedly underwent ethnic cleansing in Armenia and Azerbaijan.