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Offers Opportunities for Learning, Making Global Connections YEREVAN, Armenia and LOS ANGELES, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The Armenian high tech industry conference (ArmTech) announced today, in parallel press conferences, that it will hold its 2009 conference for showcasing the global high tech industry capabilities of the Republic of Armenia from November 5 through 8 in Silicon Valley, California. ArmTech Congress '09 will take place at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. This is the third...

Armenian Woman Detained in Iran on Political Charges From Klara Moradkhan (Los Angeles, Calif.), Cousin of Silva Harotonian LOS ANGELES, May 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following urgent message is from Klara Moradkhan, cousin of Silva Harotonian, a young humanitarian worker of Armenian descent jailed in Iran since June 2008 on political charges: Each May 28, Armenians worldwide unite to celebrate Republic Day, marking the formation of the Democratic Republic of Armenia more than 90...

MOSCOW and NEW YORK, May 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Open Joint Stock Company "Vimpel-Communications" ("VimpelCom" or the "Company") (NYSE: VIP), the leading provider of telecommunications services in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), today announced its financial and operating results for the quarter ended March 31, 2009. First Quarter 2009 Financial and Operating Highlights Net operating revenues reached 66.8 billion Russian rubles*, an increase of 30.7% versus...

Redknee's Airtime Reseller enables VivaCell-MTS to provide voucherless airtime top-up for prepaid customers TORONTO, May 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Redknee (TSX: RKN), a leading provider of business-critical software and solutions for communications service providers, today announces that VivaCell-MTS (K-Telecom CJSC), the leading mobile operator in Armenia, has launched Redknee's Airtime Reseller; a service that enables voucherless, airtime top-up for its pre-paid customers. In...

MOSCOW, April 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mobile TeleSystems OJSC ("MTS" - NYSE: MBT), the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS, announces the commercial launch of its 3G network in Armenia. MTS launches today the first UMTS / HSPA 3G network in Armenia in the three largest cities of the country: Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, Guymri and Vanadzor. The network will be expanded to additional cities during 2009. The next-generation network will deliver faster data...

A new UCLA-led study challenges the popular perception that ethnic diversity is to blame for sectarian conflicts in Iraq and Northern Ireland, recent tensions in Tibet, and ethnic violence in post-election Kenya. "Countries that are ethnically diverse do not experience more conflict than their more homogenous counterparts," said Andreas Wimmer, the study's lead author and a UCLA professor of sociology. "Rather, conflict breaks out when large segments of the population are...

VimpelCom continues to standardize on Amdocs' products across subsidiaries outside of Russia; Amdocs also delivers multiple customer management products on the same platform MOSCOW and ST. LOUIS, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vimpel-Communications ("VimpelCom") (NYSE: VIP), a leading provider of communications services to approximately 60 million customers in Russia and in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the leading provider of customer experience...

Airspan Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: AIRN), a leading provider of WiMAX-based broadband wireless access networks announced that earlier this week, an official ceremony was held in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, to launch Comstar's nation-wide, WiMAX communications network powered by Airspan equipment. At the ceremony, Comstar's CEO presented Airspan's award-winning MiMAX Q-Series USB devices to Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev and President of Armenia, Serge Sarkisyan. Comstar, the largest...

"COMSTAR - United TeleSystems" JSC ("Comstar" or "the Group") (LSE: CMST), the largest integrated telecommunications provider in Moscow and 67 Russian cities, today announced that it has launched a wireless broadband network based on the 802.16e standard WiMAX technology in Armenia and introduced the "Comstar" brand in the local market. The creation and commercial launch of the wireless network using the 3.6-3.8 GHz frequency range was implemented by Cornet-AM, an Internet service...

Global Gold Corporation (OTCBB: GBGD) is pleased to announce that its exploration, test mining, and processing work has uncovered a significant gold and silver discovery in the Central Area of its Toukhmanuk property in the north central mineral belt of Armenia. Results of recent test mining, diamond drilling of over 20,000 meters, surface sampling of the No. 1 and 15 mineralized areas indicate that there are at least eighteen mineralized zones within a 150 m to 200 m wide east-northeast...