The International Olympic Committee has officially announced the six cities that will battle it out for the rights to host the 2020 Olympic Games.

The new president of Abkhazia is Alexander Ankvab, who was immediately renounced by NATO, EU and a number of other international structures. A surprising regularity can be observed in the elections of the former USSR breakaway republics: Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia – the West practices self-denial in values proclaimed by her own self and does not legitimate the elections that are obviously more democratic than those in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Moldova.

Deriving lessons from the crisis, when the engine of Armenia’s economic growth – the construction industry – suffered worst losses, the Armenian government remembered that Armenia “was and will be an industrial country.”

Football: Armenian forwards Gevorg Ghazaryan and Marcos Pizzelli signed 3-year contracts with Metallurg Donetsk. “We have closely watches the guys’ career, so there was no need for a try-out,” Metallurg sports director Vardan Israelyan said. The first match the Armenian forwards played as part of the Ukrainian FC was a friendly against Ujpest (Hungary) on June 21. Earlier, Metallurg signed a contract with Armenian midfielder Karlen Mkrtchyan.