The Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will consider the suspension of Armenia’s voting right in its winter session.

Tel Cell’s street terminals located in Yerevan’s central streets aren’t working today. Most of them are locked with iron leads covered with dust.

The Erebuni police division received an “emergency” call on January 18 at 4:30 p.m. that a body had been found in the field located in front of the #5 building on Erebuni Street.

Taxi drivers with white license plates can drive their cars for a couple of more days without any fines. “They’re still not checking, but they will soon. The transportation inspectorate can’t pull cars over by itself. That’s up to the road police,” told “A1+” press speaker for the RA Minister of Transportation and Communication Susanna Tonoyan.

A fire broke out in building #17 located on Sundukyan Street of Yerevan on January 19 at 6:58 p.m. A rescue team left for the scene and the fire was put out at 7:28 p.m.

Upon the initiative of the "Refugees & International Law" civil society network a group of Yerevan civilians marched to the memorial complex to the victims of Baku in the Tsitsernakaberd.

Today the employees of Yerevan fairs staged a protest action in front of the government building against a recent decision to place cash-registering apparatuses in fairs.

A fire broke out in Nursery School N2 at 21/2 Vratsyan, Yerevans, at 6:21 p.m. January 18. The fire was extinguished at 6:59.

People have to walk attentively in Yerevan streets as icicles hanging from building facades can fall on their heads at any moment.

Today VivaCell-MTS announced the official hand over ceremony of neonatal intensive care cot to the Medical Research Center for Maternal and Child Health Protection.

A traffic accident was reported at the 25th km of Kapan-Yerevan road January 15. A Kamaz 57 TS 574 lorry went off the course and ran into a concrete pillar.

In the period between 2002 and 2007, 9.7% of the population of Armenia has migrated. In that period, each migrant has traveled to a foreign country 2 times a year on average, which means that there have been 460,000 migrants from Armenia during the past six years.

“We demand freezing the issue concerning the independent taxi service until the economic crisis ends because we can’t continue to work like this and pay taxes to the government and the bank for new cars,” said during a discussion today independent taxi driver Saghatel Movsisyan.

The plan for the statue dedicated to national hero Karen Demirchyan to be installed near the Main and Mashtots avenues, remains unknown. In mid-June 2008, the Yerevan city council declared a contest for the best plan proposals, but the results are still unclear.

On January 15 at 3:14 a.m. a fire broke out in the home located on 20 Mkhchyan St. in Yerevan. Three firefighter teams left for the scene and the fire was put out at 4:05 a.m.

Armenia experienced one of its most serious civil and political rights crises since independence when security forces used excessive force on March 1 against opposition demonstrators protesting the results of the February 2008 presidential election.

“I cannot afford bare necessities with my pension. I wish they raised our pensions so that we could afford our daily needs.

“There will be no snowfall in the Republic of Armenia for the coming four days, and the temperature rise by 8-10 degrees,” Head of the “ArmHydroMeter” Meteorological Centre Gagik Surenyan told A1+.

At least three people of Gugark village, Lori marz, were hospitalized in the morning of January 13 for carbon monoxide poisoning>

Actress Varduhi Varderesyan believes that hundreds of people celebrated the New Year with a broken heart. “I can’t sit and be happy knowing that there are innocent people in jail. That’s my opinion. In any case, we are hiding everything. We don’t talk about what we should really be talking about. The criminals of March 1 remain unrevealed and this is a pain for all of us. We can’t just leave that aside and pretend to be happy, pretend that...

On January 13 at 3:14 a.m. a fire broke out in the house located on 31 Nor Aresh Street of Yerevan. A team of firefighters left for the scene and the fire was put out at 4:23 a.m., according to the Rescue Service of Armenia.

An A-320 flying from Sochi to Yerevan on January 11 appeared in a backwash after noting oncoming an A-380 50-70 km away from Tbilisi. This happened at 1:00 p.m.

Today one can see few people in Armenian shops and supermarkets. Salespeople say trade “stopped” after the New Year holidays. People mainly buy dairy products, bread, mineral water and coffee.

U.S. marketing analysts state that each American spends averagely ten hours in front of a TV-set. Overally, people under 16 usually watch 360 000 ads.