Yesterday ArmenTel’s sale packet was to be opened and the Competition Board was to make public the name of the winner - the company which would become the owner of Armenian-Greek organisation.

Today Arshak Sadoyan, NA deputy and member of “Justice” faction called a meeting opposite the Commission Regulating Public Services (CRPS).

The Government of the United States of America is pleased to announce the open competition for the Future Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX) for high school aged students for the 2007-2008 academic year.

About fifty-year-old isolation hospital of Nork-Marash was fully repaired this year with the financial assistance of the Armenian community representatives of San Paulo, Brazil, and “Armenia” fund.

Tigran Torosyan, RA NA Speaker was first to touch upon the theme of the third conference Armenia-Diaspora.

There were two fire ignitions in the capital this morning.

The President of Georgia ordered to take measures to support the Kakhet vine-growers.

Two people have been arrested in connection with the September 6 murder of Shahen Hovasapyan, Head of the Operative Investigation Department of the State Tax Service.

Of all the speeches during the opening of the Conference Armenia-Diaspora, that of His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia differed radically from the speech of Robert Kocharyan. The speech of His Holiness was the only one which was greeted with long applause, and if Vardan Oskanyan didn’t interrupt them in order to announce the name of the following speaker, they would last still longer.

The World Armenian Congress which was founded in 2003 with Ara Abrahamyan at the head united the Armenian organizations of Armenia and the Diaspora and organized the first conference in the RA National Academy of Science.

In connection with the celebration of the 15th anniversary of the independence of Armenia, in order to secure safe transportation, the RA Police announce that several parts of the Sevan-Yerevan highway, as well as several streets of Yerevan will be closed.

The abrupt reduction in temperature after the summer heats has caught people in dismay. They cannot decide what to wear in order not to catch cold. Nevertheless, the officers of the meteorological service informed that the temperature is 1-2 degrees higher than usual.

In order to find out the opinion of the people about the change of the RA national anthem, the website of «A1+» organized a poll giving the readers of the site a chance to listen to all the five versions of the anthem and vote for the best of them.

The Russian Mass Media have spread information according to which there is a conflict between Russians and Caucasians in the town of Volsk, region of Saratov.

Leader of the National Democratic Union Arshak Sadoyan rendered another press conference today against “ArmenTel”. The aim was to require the Committee Regulating Public Relations turn down “ArmenTel”s application about raising the tariffs of telephone communication.

In connection with the article “12 officials arrested” the RA State Committee of Economic Competition Protection turned to “A1+” with explanations.

The International Organization “Human Rights Watch” which struggles for the protection of humanm rights is more than 70 countries has sent a letter to Armenia, in particular to the President of the RA Court of Cassation, Hovhannes Manoukyan.

Twelve people were arrested in connection with criminal case against registration of real estate right via using false receipts. There are high-rank officials among them who pocketed 1, 5 milliard AMD from ordinary citizens.

Today over 20 citizens, who in their own words, were illegally displaced from their houses and members of families who suffered losses because of commercial agents gathered opposite the president’s residence.

Four million AMD from the state budget will be allocated to a number of young people to organize a “tour” round Armenia.

The level of human protection is far from being perfect in Armenia. RA Ombudsman Armen Haroutyunyan sees a real threat in this respect. His anxiety is determined by the recent violence and intimidation on journalists

The «competitive education» which was the result of educational reforms cased complaint of the students. For example, a student of the Yerevan State University Faculty of Political science complains that it is very difficult to get excellent marks in their faculty. Another student of the same University tells that in order to get an excellent mark you have to give a bribe.

Today a rally was organized against “ArmenTel” opposite the Ministry of Transportation and Communication. This time the initiators of the rally were a number of companies providing Internet services.

So far we don’t know the cause of yesterday’s fire at Northern Avenue.