"Colonizers do their best to make people leave Armenia and economically weaken our country. But no one will hand our independence to us – we should liberate our homeland and our people."
Responding to a query posed by Yelk Alliance MP Nikol Pashinyan regarding the state of Armenia’s energy sector and whether the system is on the verge of collapse, Minister of Energy Infrastructure and Natural Resources Ashot Manukyan said the country was in fairly good shape when it comes to energy production.
Tovmasyan thanked parliament deputies for placing their trust in him and promised to do his utmost to ensure that “our nation becomes free and happy.”
In 1960, at the height of the observatory’s Golden Age, a Schmidt-class 1m telescope was brought to Byurakan. An interesting historical side note is Adolf Hitler had presented the telescope to Mussolini as a gift. The aim was to establish an observatory in Italy. The project was never realized.
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