European countries to provide some €3 million for Armenia electionsNovember 14, 2018 - 15:04 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The European Union, Germany, Great Britain and Sweden will provide €1.5 million, €700.000, £0.5 million pounds and 1.5 million Swedish kronas , respectively - more than €2.9 million in total - for Armenia to organize the upcoming presidential elections. The Armenian government will, in turn, spend $700,000 on the project, the RFE/RL Armenian Service says. The corresponding document about the launch of the program was signed on Wednesday, November 14 at the government building in Yerevan. According to the paper, the project is aimed at ensuring the use of voter identification machines imported for the parliamentary elections of 2017, providing live broadcasting from all 2000 polling stations through the installment of 1500 web cameras, as well as improving the voter registration process. Snap parliamentary elections will be held on December 9. Top stories The number of state universities will be reduced from 23 to 8 by 2030, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Zhanna Andreasyan has said. From September 21 to November 11, a total of 2,820 Russians registered at a place of residence in Armenia, the police has said. The situation on the contact line between Karabakh and Azerbaijan was relatively stable overnight, the Defense Army says. Defense Minister Suren Papikyan has visited the southern Armenian province of Syunik, the Defense Ministry reported on March 18. Partner news | Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. Baku: EU, U.S. share responsibility for Armenia’s “destabilizing actions” Azerbaijan has declared that the European Union and the United States will share responsibility for any destabilizing actions of Armenia |