The RA NA was deprived on its President today. The day of the election of a new President is not known yet. Neither are the candidates for the post known. According to the Parliament regulations the deputies are to elect a President. And whom do the citizens of the country prefer? We tried to find out the answer to this question through a poll.

Robert Kocharyan has sent a congratulating message to renowned singer Charles Aznavour on his birthday. «I congratulate you on your birthday. Your image of an excellent artist and a Great Armenian supported many people. You are the pride of our nation. Many generations have admired your songs and your patriotic spirit.

The specialists working on the site of the A-320 crash have managed to find one of the record boxes of the plane. «Today we found one of the record boxes of the plane», one of the specialists informed the journalist of «Interfax». He also informed that the search for the other box is under way.

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The rescuers may fail to find the record boxes of the crashed plane A-320, RF Minister of Transportation Igor Levitin thinks. “In case of crashes of think kind there is a possibility that the rescuers may fail to find the record boxes,” he said.

Today we received an explaining letter from “Hamazkaine” in connection with a Monday issue on our website. The issue read:

In 1922 the Turks killed about 300 thousand Greeks but Armenia has not yet recognized the Genocide which causes the confusion of the Greeks living in Armenia.

The students of the departments “Accountancy and Audit” and “Statistics” of the Yerevan State Economic Institute Finance faculty have been holding an action of complain since 10AM opposite the Ministry of Education of Science.

Yesterday finally the weather allowed to continue the search for the record boxes of the plane A-320 with the RT-1000 underwater equipment. They continued until 4 AM. If the weather does not change for the worse, the works will resume soon.

At night of May 18 a bronze car of brand «Infinity» with state numbers 90LO200 burned in the yard of the house N1 on Yekmalyan street, Yerevan. It was registered by the name of Alexander Vardanov, executive director of «ArmEconomBank» but was used by a woman of about 25-30 named Gayane.

The semi-final phase of the festival “Eurovision - 2006” will start in a few hours in Athens. It will be held in the closed hall of the Olympic complex foreseen for the audience of 18 thousand people. The festival will be opened by representative from Armenia, Andre with his song “Without your love.” It is due to mention that representatives from 37 countries are to participate in the festival.

Narine Avetisyan, executive director of “Lori” TV Company and member of the Journalists’ Union of Armenia, has twice been intimidated (in April, 2005, and in February, 2006) while committing her duty of a journalist.

It is already the third day the searching continues on the site of the crashed A-320 airplane, but the record boxes haven’t been taken out of the sea so far. The bad weather, rough seas and beating winds greatly hamper the searching works. It is raining heavily and the sea is rather rippled at present.

Today the yard of the government became so overcrowded since 10:30 that there was a need to invite security service workers to keep order. The strikers shouted “Prime Minister, resign” for about 4 hours.

The quality of internet connection has worsened since the morning. It was determined by the damage of the optical cable. The connection is already restored

At present the general session of the RA National Academy of Science is under way. The session is to elect a new President. There are three candidates for the post: Head of the NAS Mechanics Institute Lenser Akhalovyan, Scientific secretary of the Academy Edward Ghazaryan and ex rector of the Yerevan State University Radik Martirosyan.

The search works of the record boxes of the plane A-320 which crashed in the Black Sea were resumed the previous night. The works were halted because of strong wind.

“The Russian dispatcher didn’t insult the Armenian pilot,” RA Attorney General Aghvan Hovsepyan informed the reporter of “A1+”about it opposing the claims of the Georgian side. According to him confusion was aroused by an “insulting” phrase when the dispatcher said “those Armenians are going to land” instead of saying “that Armenian pilot is going to land.”

Today Michael Baghdasarov, owner of the “Armavia” company, didn’t exclude that there were drunk people on the A-320 airplane but he excluded the possibility of panic on the plane saying that “Dispatchers record all conversations and they would have recorded it as well. The voice of the pilot was very quiet and he spoke rather calmly.”

At present the fact of Arthur Baghdasayan’s leaving the Coalition is the main concern in the political sphere. Why did he do it and what was his step motivated by? Further political procedure and developments will likely answer these questions. So far we tried to answer them through the Internet polls.

On May 16 at the US Embassy in Yerevan, a contract for $699,000 for development of the Police Computer Network will be signed. The company AEAI (Advanced Engineering Associates International) with its Armenian partner Yerevan Computer Research and Development Institute (YCRDI) have been selected by the US Embassy to develop the Network.

Today at 01:45 AM after finishing the work of the TV Company “Lori” executive director Narine Avetisyan found that certain people had thrown stones at her car parked in the yard of the TV Company. “We found out that there are not such kind of stones in the area. Those large stones were taken to the territory deliberately,” Narine Avetisyan informed “A1+” about it.

According to commander-in-chief of the RF air-force Vladimir Mikhaylov the crash of the Armenian aircraft A-320 was determined by the fact that the pilots didn’t take into consideration weather conditions.

The works of taking the record boxes of the airplane “A - 320” (crashed on May 3) out of the Black Sea have resumed. Special apparatus located on board the ship “Navigator” was taken to the scene.