RA Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan plans to see the New Year in with his family in Armenia.

“Only once in my life, when a student, I was absent from Armenia during the New Year holidays. I was in Marseilles and had no money to buy an air ticket,” Ashotyan told NEWS.am. The Minister likes to see pakhlava (a kind of oriental biscuit with nuts) on the New Year table. Ashotyan does not believe in Santa Claus. “At my age I myself am Santa Claus for my family,” he said.

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