In  2014 Armenia will get super-precision and long-range guided missile systems, Armenia's Defence Minister Seyran Ohanyan  said at today's press-conference. 

VTB Bank (Armenia) has been granted MoneyGram's For Significant Growth award for 10% growth in 2013.

The presence of an international school in Armenia may become a call for economic and political stabilization in the country, Veronika Zonabend, the wife of well- known Russian businessman and philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan, said at today's press conference in Yerevan when commenting on an ArmInfo correspondent's concerns about the low probability of the Dilijan project's self-repayment amid the probable economic and political shocks in Armenia.        

Rotation of Ameriabank's Board of Directors is part of a new business culture and the resignation of Ruben Vardanyan, Russian businessman, from the post of the Chairman of Ameriabank's Board of Directors should be considered in the light of this very policy.  Now, Vardanyan is a member of the Board of Directors at Ameriabank. Talking to the local Shant TV, the founder and the head of IDeA Foundation Ruben Vardanyan said the issue must not be personified, as the bank has become rather a serious institutional structure. 

 Every country has an obstacle to development of its economy, in Armenia it is the transport problem. Ruben Vardanyan, Russian businessman, the founder and the head of IDeA Foundation, made such statement in an interview with the Shant TV when commenting on the reasons of his participation in development of "open skies" project together with the international consulting firm McKinsey. 

 Captain of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces Elnur Jafarov was killed not in alleged 'ceasefire breach', but in the course of Azerbaijan's sabotage, the Defense Ministry of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic said in a statement. 

A 16-year-old girl Liana Anikyan was wounded in a severe fire at the village of Aypepar, Tavush region, Armenia, by the Azerbaijani troops on 23 January. 

 Armenia needs very serious changes that like a drive gear will drag along others. Ruben Vardanyan, Russian businessman, the founder and the head of IDeA Foundation, made such statement in an interview with the Shant TV. In early 2000, Vardanyan came out with an initiative of creating a peculiar development program for his motherland and called it Armenia - 2020. However, he failed to put it through the "government cordon."

 Escalation of the tension in Euromaidan is beneficial for Bankova Street in Kyiv and Smolensk Square in Moscow, Ukrainian politician and public figure Oleg Rybachuk said when replying to ArmInfo's question in his online interview.     

 It is the Kremlin and Vladimir Putin, who has declared creation of the Eurasian Union as a priority of his presidency, that are first of all to blame for the death of 5 people killed in the clashes between the demonstrators and the riot police in Kyiv, Ukrainian politician and public figure Oleg Rybachuk said when replying to ArmInfo's question in his online interview.     

The Kremlin has actually isolated Viktor Yanukovich from Ukraine's governance. There are Russian strategic and operation headquarters in Kyiv, which are taking measures aimed at undermining the state system of Ukraine, Ukrainian politician and public figure Oleg Rybachuk said when replying to ArmInfo's question in his online interview.    

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan welcomes any polemic if it is aimed at approaching reality from different points of view and improving something, the President's Spokesman Arman Saghatelyan said in an interview to Aravot newspaper, when asked about the President's attitude towards the indirect dispute that took place recently between former President Robert Kocharyan and incumbent Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan.

The Customs Union is a model of conservation of the past. Consequently, no reforms are needed for Ukraine's membership of the Customs Union and there are no criteria to be complied with, Ukrainian expert Oleg Rybachuk said when replying to ArmInfo's question in his online interview.      

Defence Ministry of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic dismissed Azerbaijani media reports on an alleged incident during the OSCE monitoring.

 In accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission on Thursday conducted a planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the Hadrut direction near Horadiz settlement.

 Bodies of the two killed Azerbaijani officers are still on the neutral territory on the line of contact of the Azerbaijani and Karabakh armed forces after Azerbaijan's latest sabotage, says Levon Melik-Shakhnazaryan, the Head of Voskanapat Analytical Center.

The Embassy of Azerbaijan in Spain has sent a note of protest to the Spanish Foreign Ministry against the decision to set up a stand for Nagorno-Karabakh at an international tourism fair in Madrid, Spokesman for the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Elman Abdullayev told Trend on Thursday.

 VTB Bank (Armenia) is financing the construction of a modern multi-function logistics complex in Yerevan - "Urban Logistics Services." 

 2013 was unfavorable year for Armenian mass media as pressure on journalists increased, Chairman of the Freedom Protection Committee of Armenia Ashot Melikyan said during a press-conference on Thursday.