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ACBA-CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK will hold its traditional annual prize draw ahead of the New Year among Visa Student cardholders and raffled off six semester tuition fees, in 20 December, at 10:30 AM, in Moscow cinema, the bank's press office reported. All cardholders who have been active from 25 August to 19 December may take part in the raffle.

There will be 6 prizes and a student may choose what he likes, either the tuition fee for a half-year, or notebook and Ipad. Student should attend the raffle with ID. After the event, every participant in the raffle will be given a cinema ticket for "Super mama" film.

At the same day, ACBA-CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK will hold its traditional annual prize draw ahead of the New Year among Visa Student cardholders, in which the most active users will take part, and those which in the period of validity of the card, implemented at least one operation on payment or taking cash. Here there will also be 6 prizes: for students studying in Armenia - tuition fee for six months or a mobile phone Samsung Galaxy S 5 Mini Duos, and for students studying in abroad - a mobile phone Samsung Galaxy S 5 Mini Duos. The prizes will be delivered to those cardholders which, till 31 December 2015, will submit a certificate from a university that certifies their training there.

To recall, ACBA-CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK was established in 1995 as part of the European Union's TACIS program. In 2006, CREDIT-AGRICOLE GROUP invested substantially into its capital becoming its largest shareholder.

In 2015 the situation over Nagorno-Karabakh will not be better than in 2014, Tom de Waal, a senior associate in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment, told ArmInfo on Saturday.

The question whether there should be a customs point on the Armenian-NKR border is no longer on agenda, Nagorno-Karabakh's Prime Minister Ara Harutyunyan said in an interview to Zhamanak newspaper.

AMD's depreciation will not prevent the Armenian Government from fulfilling next year's budget, MP Gagik Minasyan told journalists on Friday.

The House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus has ratified the agreement on Armenia's accession to the Eurasian Economic Union, reports BELTA.

On Friday prosecutor Karen Gabriyelyan said that Azeri raiders Dilham Askerov and Shahbaz Guliyev must be sentenced to life and 22 years in jail, respectively.

Yerevan Brandy Company (YBC) has announced December 20 and 21 as Open Days ahead of the New Year and Christmas.

John Heffern, U.S.  Ambassador who is ending his mandate to Armenia said in a farewell press conference on 19 December that Armenia has not received any invitation by the Millennium Challenge Corporation, as it lacked some criteria necessary to participate in the programs of the Corporation.

The USA wants to go on stimulating reconciliation of the Armenian and Turkish peoples as much as it can, US Ambassador to Armenia, John Heffern, said at today's farewell press-conference in Yerevan.

The Turkish-Azerbaijani tandem has sharply activated at the world arena for the last period of time. From now on, the Armenian lobby is coming across counteraction of the strong Turkish-Azerbaijani tandem, a representative of the ARF "Dashnaktiutyun", Hrant Margaryan, said during the event in Aleppo dedicated to the 124th anniversary of the ARFD.

U.S.  Ambassador to Armenia John Heffern said in a press conference, Friday, Armenia and U.S. will sign an agreement on the Vorotan Cascade of HPPs shortly.

The Kazakh Senate ratified the treaty on Armenia's accession to the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) on 19 December, according to "Novosti-Kazakhstan".

Drivers of public mini-van go on being on strike because of raising fuel price.

Armenia's financial market will no longer face the shocks like the one it faced on Dec 17, Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan told journalists on Thursday.

On Dec 18 Armenia's Central Bank tried to sell $4mln on the inter-bank forex market but none of the banks bought it. No forex transactions were registered on the exchange on the same day, with the average offer rate being 548.8 AMD/1 USD. It was the first CB intervention since Dec 8.

By the end of the current year, Beeline will complete landline network digitization in Metsavan community in Lori region, Kuchak community in Aragatsotn region and Norashen community in Armavir region.  Beeline informed that from then on, high-quality digital network services will be available for the residents of these communities, broadband Internet quality will be enhanced, while Kuchak community residents will start taking advantage of broadband Internet services.  During digitization works, the equipment will be also replaced and modernized.

On Dec 18 the EU Delegation to Armenia held an official ceremony for the signature of fifteen EU cooperation projects in Yerevan. New actions with a total budget of approximately 10 million EUR will support civil society and local authorities as well as government reforms in Armenia.

Mining industry has leading positions in terms of environmental damage in Armenia, Inga Zarafyan, Head of EcoLur NGO, told ArmInfo.  

Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan has visited the supermarkets in Yerevan and familiarized himself with the prices.