Grigor Amalyan, the president of the most «independent» Committee of TV and Radio, insulted the journalists of www.a1plus.am for their haste in accusing the Committee of violating the law and not letting them know about their decisions within ten days, as it should have been.

International Aviation Committee has finished the decoding of the “verbal” record box of A-320 crashed on May 3. This information was delivered by the agency “Ria Novosti.”

Outstanding conductor Ohan Douryan’s health is still troubling. But there is an anchor of hope that he may regain his consciousness judging by his state today and yesterday; Maestro nodded in answer to the questions of different doctors. He also raises his hands subconsciously and makes various movements.

On June 8 at the House of Journalist in Yerevan a press-conference was held, where the representatives of journalistic associations spoke about the draft amendments to the RA Laws "On Postal Communication", "On Licensing" and "On State Duty", proposed by the RA National Assembly deputies of the United Labor Party Gurgen Arsenian and Grigor Ghonjeyan.

On the night of June 7 unknown people broke into the office of “Multi-National Georgia” organization (located in Tbilisi). According to Arnold Stepanyan, the head of the office they mainly took items holding information; computers, discs etc.

Today, five cost-sharing agreements were signed with five municipalities and Memorandum of Understanding with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) for projects in the scope of UNDP Armenia Performance Budgeting project. In addition, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) presented the Performance Budgeting Manual.

While the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan were negotiating in Bucharest and the society was trying to anticipate the results of the negotiations judging by the appearance of the presidents leaving the negotiation hall, the website of “A1+” offered its readers to answer the following question, “Which variant of the NKR conflict settlement is more favourable for Karabakh?”

Since July 2 the runway of airport «Zvartnots» will work round-the-clock. Because of the reconstruction work on the runway all the flights used to be carried out in the evening. The management of the airport informed today that 27.000 tons of asphalt has been used in order to change the asphalt layer of the runway.

The companies providing the residents of Armenia with drinking water have different tariffs for one cubic meter of water. For example, the company “Yerevan Water Pipeline” sells one cubic meter of water for 80 AMD, “Shirak Water Pipeline” – for 76 AMD and “Lori Water Pipeline” – for 91 AMD.

So far “A1+” hasn’t been presented the decision of the National Commission on Television and Radio (NCTR) though 12 days have passed after the tendency.

ARMENIA IS IN THE WATCH LIST

A rally of protest was initiated by the Armenian students of Great Britain in connection with the increase of murders, racism combat and hatred of mankind apparent in the Russian Federation. The site of the rally was the territory opposite the Russian Embassy in Great Britain.

82% of the territory of Armenia is in danger of desertification whereas 26% is in danger of severe desertification. This problem is pressing in all over the world today; about two billion people live in areas which are 41% deserified. In order to invite public attention to this problem this year the slogan of the International Day of Environmental Protection is “Do not desertify non-irrigated lands”.

10 NGOs together with about 50 citizens organized a rally of protest opposite the Russian Embassy with posters saying “STOP”. They condemned the activities of the racist groupings in Russia, in particular the skinheads and demanded the RF authorities to resort to strict measures to arrest and punish the murderers.

The Armenian community of Moscow has started a series of rallies in memory of the victims of the skinheads. The organizers of one of the rallies were young people from the Armenian community of Moscow and the nearby areas.

The NGOs “Defense of the Rights of Consumers” and “Union of Consumers” were concerned not by the fact that since July 1 one cubic meter of drinking water will cost 174 AMD instead of 125 but that this operation was carried out without keeping the consumers aware of it.

For the last two days very high temperature has been recorded in Armenia. The meteorological service of Armenia states that the heats have come sooner than expected.

Yerevan—The hearing of Heritage Party Chairman Raffi K. Hovannisian’s case against the administration of the Paronian Theater reconvened today at the Court of First Instance of Yerevan’s Central and Nork-Marash communities. It was again presided over by Judge Edward Avetisian.

The representatives of the Armavir Office of the party “Prospering Armenia” decided to make presents for the new-born and were at the entrance of the maternity ward at 11 according to their preliminary arrangement.

The deciphering of the record boxes of the Armenian plane A-320 which crashed in the Black Sea on May 3 will last 1.5-2 months, RF Minister of Transportation Igor Levitin announced. According to him, about 300 parameters must be investigated.

On the hundredth day of his office RA second Ombudsman Armen Haroutyunyan rendered a press conference to inform the society about what he has done.

«Tobacco is deadly in any form – directly or indirectly». With this motto all the member countries of the World Health Organization celebrated the World No-Tobacco Day – May 31.

The ceremony of departure of the Armenian ship “Kilikia” took place in the famous London port “St. Katharine's Dock” on the Thames. RA Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the UK Vahe Gabrielyan made a speech.

The talks on introducing changes into the RA hymn were followed by practical steps. Composer Robert Amirkhanyan presented his version of the hymn in the Yerevan State University.