Today the surrounding of the Government building was overcrowded again. The inhabitants of Saralange Str. aroused a revolt. The dwellers of Saralange have always been in constant fear as they heard that their dwelling places are a “zone of realization” for the “needs of the Government.

The salesmen of the subway shops nears the Underground Station “Barekamutyun” were warned last Thursday that since April 1 all the sale points will be closed down because of the massive reconstruction of the subway. New shops will come to replace the old ones.

The names of the participants of the competitions announced by the Television and Radio National Committee are already known.

Today “A1+” placed an order to participate in the competitions of radio frequencies. Today is the deadline for the orders for participation in the competitions for licensing the broadcasting of radio programs by the frequencies FM 90.7 MHz and FM 90.3 MHz in the territory of Yerevan.

Is the Yerevan municipality a closed or an open structure? The journalists tried to get the answer to this question from the head of the Yerevan Management technologies Center Khazhak Karayan – the guest of the traditional Monday briefing.

The depositors of the bank “Armenia” which went bankrupt were gathered opposite the Central Bank again this morning. This was by approximate calculations their 250th meeting.

The residents of the Yerevan realization zones who call themselves “those evicted from their houses” still have hope that one day the President of the country “will learn the truth about them”. Shoghik Galstyan and Gayane Asatryan are sure that the officials “give false information to him”.

“I am afraid that speaking about the collision of civilizations we will ignore our national development”, advisor of the RA Foreign Ministry Ashot Voskanyan expressed his concern during the discussion with the theme “Collision of Civilizations and Armenia” in the “Mirror” club.

“Our society yearns to read good books and normal library conditions. It needs libraries which can satisfy today’s needs. There is still much to do in the sphere of libraries”, director of the National Library and head of the Armenian Libraries’ Association David Sargsyan said during the press conference.

On the night of March 26 Armenia will adopt daylight saving time. At 02:00 a.m. the clock hands must be put ahead for an hour.

During 8.5 hours the voters did not manage to elect a rector for the Yerevan State University. In the third phase too none of the candidates collected the necessary amount of votes: Aram Simonyan had 20 votes for, and Gagik Ghazinyan – 36, which is only one vote shy of the necessary amount.

Today the US Ambassador to Armenia John Evans officially gave Armen Haroutyunyan, the commander of the RA frontier troops, the keys of the reconstructed center of RA frontier troops in Yerevan. The US Embassy has spent 130 thousand USD for the reconstruction of the building for the last year.

Tsoghik Grigoryan’s name became famous for those interested in English in 2002 when the 21-year-old author published her first dictionary “English-Armenian Synonyms”. Today her second dictionary has already been published under the name of “English-Armenian Dictionary of Synonymic Groups”.

The State Committee of Economic Competition Defense had made a decision to fine “ArmenTel” on the basis of the application of “Gh-Telecom”. “ArmenTel” has not paid the fine as they are going to appeal the decision.

The Yerevan mayor Yervand Zakharyan and the chief architect of the city Samvel Danielyan will not allow a 21-storeyed building to be built instead of the Cinema House. Samvel Danielyan announced about it during the usual briefings in the municipality.

The RA Quality State Inspection established control over the Turkish goods in the Armenian market during January and February of the current year. The State budget allotted 80 million AMD for the check-ups of 45 types of goods.

The dream of the NGO «Bridge of Hope» is stuck on the wall of the organization building in the form of a poster: a world which will allow the disabled to create the future of the country together with everyone. Member of the organization Nshan says that the attitude of the people towards the disabled has changed and improved, although it's still far from being ideal.

p> 6 non-governmental organizations dealing with the protection of consumers’ rights created the Public Protectors’ Union (PPU) which is going to arouse a revolt because of the increase of gas price.

The Criminal and Military Court of Appeal restarted to hear the trial of soldiers Razmik Sargsyan, Musa Serobyan and Arayik Zaryan. They are accused of the murder of soldiers Movses Mkrtoumyan and Roman Eghiazaryan.

On March 13, 2006, U.S. Ambassador John Evans met with Armenian Minister of Agriculture Davit Lokyan to officially mark the donation of 1,500 set of personal protective equipment from the United States of America to the government of Armenia.

The residents of the Buzand street Nuneh Varduni, Susanna Poghosyan and Smbat Melqonyan who had gone on a hunger strike opposite the office of the RA Ombudsman stopped their strike on Friday. The reason is the written answer of the Ombudsman to the applications of the strikers.

On the 11th of March a press conference was conducted in public defender's office regarding the incident that took place on the 9th of March as a result of which Mr. Gevorg Gevorgyan was killed and other ethnic Armenian citizens of Georgia were injured to various degrees. According to official data, five suspects were detained by the Police of Georgia and other suspects are searched for.

For the last eight years «ArmenTel» was never punished for high tariffs. But today the Economic Competition Defense State Committee punished the company for establishing low tariffs.

Since April 10 the population of Armenia will pay 90 AMD instead of 59 AMD for one cubic meters of gas. The Committee regulating public services unanimously confirmed the new tariffs of gas sold to the consumers by «ArmRusGasArd».