Alaverdi’s copper-molybdenum factory will likely close down in 2008. The factory belongs to “ACP” CJSC. Local residents are seriously concerned over the factory’s impending closure as it feeds over 1100 families.

Residents of the “zone of realization” are no longer surprised at regular disconnection of electricity and gas.

At 2:14 p.m., December 15, an alarm was set that the resident living in the cellar of house 15, Chekhov Str., wasn't answering the door. At 2:25 rescuers found the corpse of David Arakelian, 1941, inside the cellar.

The “Supreme Council” Deputy Club appealed to the European Court of Human Rights to litigate “large-scale illegalities of the Public TV-Radio Company of Armenia.”

Today the independent commission dealing with the issues of detainees overruled the petition on releasing editor-in-chief of “Zhamanak Yerevan” (Yerevan Time) Arman Babajanian on probation.

Relatives of the crew of the YAK-40 crashed in the Islamic Republic of Iran May 17, 2001, held a protest action near the Armenian Government today.

Darkness falls upon Noragavit District at twilight. People hardly find the way because of poor illumination of the streets.

Terrorist act against the editorial office of “Chorrord Ishkhanutyun” endangers the freedom speech and the maintenance of pluralism in the country. The RA Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan condemned the explosion of the entry of the editorial office.

The Chief Editor of “Chorrord Ishkhanutyun” newspaper (Forth Power)” Shogher Matevosyan connects the explosion of the entrance door of the editorial office with their publications. She suspects two people - Head of the Erebuni district or the Prime Minister’s driver.

Another Armenian was killed in the Russian Federation a day ago. 23-year-old Vahagn left one of the restaurants in St Petersburg late at night, where they were marking his 16-year-old brother’s birthday. A group of men approached him in the street and stabbed with a knife and hit with an iron tube on the head.

Today the RA Government ignored the protest action of the citizens who were unjustly deprived of their properties. No Government representative came out to talk to the demonstrators.

“Today is open-door day at the editorial office of “Chorrord Ishkhanutyun” (Forth Power)”, said the director of the newspaper Mher Ghalechyan. Today the editorial office is without entrance door.

David Avetissian, Deputy Minister of Finance and Economy of the Republic of Armenia, was rescued while swimming in the Pacific Ocean near Chili.

On 12 December 2007, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), acting as a neutral intermediary, facilitated the transfers of two civilians who had been detained in Baku and in Nagorny Karabakh respectively. The transfer took place in Agdam district of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

The Ministry of Interior of the Russian Federation detained the suspect making an attempt on Armenian MP Tigran Arzakantsian in September, 2007.

Nine candidates have been nominated for presidency. Lat week A1+ conducted a poll among its readers to know whether they are acquainted with the political activity of the presidential contenders

People sneezing at every step turn out to have caught a cold. They are not infected with viral influenza. Nowadays people rarely come down with the flu. The number of infected patients is decreasing day by day, Liana Torossian, chief professor of Epidemic Department of the Ministry of Health, assured A1+.

An alarm was set at 8.53 p.m., December 11 that the resident of apartment 12, Shrjanayin Street, Yerevan, wasn't answering the door.

The residents of Teryan Street, which is being used for the state needs, are persecuted every day.

A criminal group engaged in stealing of cars was arrested in the result of joint operative-investigation activities of the RA National Security Service and the Police.

On 10 December Yerevan citizen H. Mansuryan, born in 1981, jumped from Hrazdan Bridge on Kievyan Street in Yerevan.

It is not a secret that food with expired dates and not sold for a long time appear in the markets on the eve of holidays, which is very risky for consumers’ health.

Human rights are violated in the Republic of Armenia. They are infringed at each step every day, Alexander Ghazarian said in reply to A1+’s question whether human rights are protected in Armenia.

My two grandchildren do not go to school as they have nothing to wear. My third grandson is liable to military service. Unfortunately he cannot be recruited to the army as nobody knows about our existence, 70-year-old Siranush Melikian told A1+.