RoA Deputy Minister of Education Bagrat Yesayan summed up the results of the entrance exams-2008 on July 11. He says the exams were held in a quitter atmosphere this year if compared with the previous years.

Fifteen Armenian children from socially vulnerable families have been in Moscow over the past days. They were participating in the “Friendship” summer camp and will be back to Yerevan on July 11.

After staging a protest action at the Governmental Building people struggling for the protection of Teghut forests proceeded to the RA Court of Concession. On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Court President Serzh Sargssian, Prime-Minister Tigran Sargssian and other high-rank officials had all gathered at the site.

On July 8, 2008 in Yerevan a conference was held on “Media Diversity in Armenia”, organized by the Council of Europe, OSCE and Yerevan Press Club. The conference participants, representatives of media, professional associations, official structures and political parties of Armenia, international organizations and diplomatic missions discussed the urgent issues of the media of the country:

In the frames of previously arranged regional visits RA Ombudsman Armen Harutyunian and his work team have left for Syunik Region to find out the problems concerning human rights. During his visit Harutyunian met Governor of Syunik Suren Khachatrian, as well as mayors of Goris, Kapan, Sisian, Meghri and Agarak.

Pupils, parents and teaching staff of Yerevan's School # 9 for children with hearing disabilities and children with weak hearing staged a protest action near the RoA Ministry of Education and Science (MES) on July 9.

“The case of “A1+” must be reconsidered immediately. It is the demand of the European Court of Human Rights,” declared Andrew Mackintosh, Head of the PACE subcommittee of Mass Media at the international conference “Pluralism in the Armenian Mass Media”.

With sanctification of His Holiness Garegin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, the publishing department of the Holy See of Echmiadzin published the Armenian translation of “Le génie du christianisme” by well-known French writer François-René de Chateaubriand.

On July 7 the rescuers dragged out of the pond near the Village of Dprabak, Gegharkunik Region the corpse of drowned Nikolos Yeritsyan. On July 6 the rescuers were informed that Resident of Dprabak Village Nikolos Yeritsyan, 38, was drowned in the nearby pond.

What is your opinion about the reaction of Armenia's leadership towards a June 17 decision of the European Court? Do they want to reap the fruits of their mistakes and restore the violated rights of A1+ Company?

The website http://www.mediahelpingmedia.org today wrote an article about “A1+”. Following is the article in the original.

A Volkswagen Passat 11 OT 657 got stuck in wet sands while U-turning on the beach near Sevan at 11.05 p.m. on June 25. Rescuers took the car out at about 11.35.

“We are content with the verdict of the European Court of Human Rights in the sense it proves we are right, a fact we have been trying to prove the Armenian authorities for 6 years. I think the decision will give us an opportunity to participate in the tenders on equal terms, without discrimination,” declared Director of “A1+” Mesrop Movsessian at a press conference in the “De facto” Club.

An accident occurred on the 22nd km of Ashtarak-Talin Highway at 11:45, on June 25. A Mercedes C-280 (registration number 22 UL 800) went out of the route and turned, crashing into a tree.

A “VAZ-2121” with state numbers 67 OT 199 burnt down in the village of Nor Gheghi, Kotayk marz, at 3.00, June 24. The driver of the car, Varuzhan Vardanian, was taken to hospital with burns of different degrees.

On June 24 the rescue service received an alarm that resident of the Totovents Alley 2/32 does not answer either the telephone or door bell rings. Arriving at the site the rescuers opened the door and found 75-year-old Rima Saribekian, who had had a sudden heart attack. Given first aid Rima Saribekian was taken to hospital.

“We call on the Armenian leadership to take the EC decision regarding A1+ Company as a signal to grant the TV Company a broadcasting licence,” said Nina Oganova, Coordinator of the Journalists’ Protection Committee on European and Central Asian Issues.

Like every Thursday a group of people staged a protest action at the Governmental Buildings today. Mothers of dead soldiers showed their sons pictures demanding that the murderers be punished. Another group of people held Arman Babajanian’s picture and demanded to set him free. Still others, deprived of their property rights, shouted: “Thieves!”, “Robbers!”

In the city of Gyumri the southern wall of an unfinished construction fell on the nearest house razing it to the ground on June 18. Several people were caught in the ruins. According to preliminary data it was the two-fold wall of “Ankyun” Ltd that fell on the house No 101/031 on Shirakatsi Str.

On June 7, 2008, the European Court of Human Rights upheld A1+’s case “Meltex Ltd and Mesrop Movsesyan vs. the Republic of Armenia” (application no. 32283/04).

The esteemed Bosphorus Quartet from Istanbul, Turkey, will perform at Komitas Chamber Music Hall in Yerevan at 19:00 on June 18, 2008. The concert is part of a cultural exchange between Armenia and Turkey made possible by Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF), in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development and the Komitas State Quartet NCSO.

About a 100 people gathered at the Presidential Residence in the head of Vachagan Hakobian, Chairman of the “Committee for Property Rights Protection” NGO. Each of the demonstrators had their own complaint.

The European Court of Human Rights has today notified in writing its Chamber judgment1 in the case of Meltex Ltd and Mesrop Movsesyan vs. Armenia (application no. 32283/04).

On June 16 the RA Rescue Service was called to Babajanian Str. to open the door of a locked apartment. The rescuers were able to open the door at 23:54. As it turned out one of the family members, who suffered from mental disorder, was on the balcony threatening to throw herself down. It was 28-year-old Gayane, who refused to speak either to the assistants of the first aid service or to her parents.