On November 13 at about 01:00 a.m. in Pyatigorsk (Stavropol region) an attempt has been made to burn the builing of the Armenian Culture Center where the offices of a number of Armenian organizations are located. There is also an Armenian church nest to the Culture house. {BR} The act of arson has been shot by video: three young people wrote with green paint “Allah Akbar” o nhte wall of the building,...

Today the residents of the North and Main Avenues and the Yeznik Koghbaci street organized the usual act of complaint against the Yerevan municipality. Their demand is unchanged – to compensate fully for their property. {BR} The policemen gathered opposite the municipality did not allow them to shout and tried to make them leave the place. Seeing their decisiveness and the fruitlessness of their...

Constitutional agitation is realized among the Armenians of Moscow. The members of the “Russian-Armenian Cooperation” are agitating “Yes”. {BR} Today the organized a round table for the representatives of the community and briefed them especially on the elimination of the provision prohibiting dual citizenship. By the way, judging from the message sent by the “Yerkramas” newspaper, nothing was said about the disputable issues of the...

Today's press conference of the Radio station «RadioHay» was a complaint against the RA Ministry of Transport and Connection. The Radio station informed that the «TV communication State Center» LTD founded by the Ministry in 1998 continues to extort illegal sums from the TV Companies. It demands to pay for those services for which the TV and Radio Companies pay while getting the broadcasting certificate....

Lilya Ghazaryan who was evicted from his house in Buzand 9 on November 4 had a stroke of paralysis on November 5 in her relative’s house. On November 6 she was taken to the “Grigor Lusavorich” medical center. She has been in the reanimation department since. {BR} We tried to get information from the medical center about Lilya Ghazaryan’s condition. According to the doctors, her situation is grave.

From September 10 till November 10 a monitoring of the product called “yogurt” has been carried out in the Armenian market. The results of the laboratory investigations showed that there are no healthy micro organisms in the imported yogurts. {BR} During the investigation different types of yogurt have been bought from the market and sent to 3 experimental laboratories. Senior scientific worker...

The RA Economic Competition Defense Committee discussed in its plenary session the problem of the quality of internet and its availability which according to the providers led to the raise of the prices of the service. The problem was raised by the «Internet Union» NGO. {BR} In its August 8 letter to the Committee the «Internet Union» mentioned, «The quality of internet service by «ArmenTel»...

The monument to the Founding Gathers of the Saint Cross city in the Stavropol region Budyonovsk city has been destroyed for the third time this year. The monument is also considered that to the Armenian-Russian friendship. The khachkar of the monument was broken into pieces at about 05:00-06:00 p.m. yesterday. {BR} According to the newspaper «Yerkramas», the local Armenian community and the representatives...

Before the PACE makes a decision about the leader of the Kurdish nation Abdullah Odjalan on November 20, the Kurdish community of Armenia has already organized acts of complaint. {BR} Today about a thousand Kurds came to Yerevan from the Kotayq, Aragatsotn and Armavir regions and organized a march from the Opera House to the Republic Square. The demand of the participants of the march was to restore...

Military serviceman Razmik Sargsyan continues his 90-day hunger strike in the Noubarashen criminal institution. He is accused of the murder of fellow servicemen Hovsep Mkrtoumyan and Roman Eghiazaryan and was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment. {BR} As the very last means to prove his innocence the convict has chosen the hunger strike. A council of NGOs has been created to investigate the case...

Today the head of the trade union of «Armentel» Rafik Vardanyan rendered a press conference to comment on the reasons of the strike of the “Informational Technologies” department of the company. {BR} “At present “Armentel” is under reconstruction, that’s why changes of posts of some of the workers are possible. We all know that the service of the company leaves much to be desired, so the heads of the company make huge investments to...

Starting form next year Russia will put into execution the simplified system of giving work and temporary registration permission to those who leave for Russia in order to work. The citizens who do not have registration in Russia will be granted «amnesty». {BR} The head of the Migration Federal Service informed that the draft law about «The judicial conditions of foreigners in RF» has already...

The Armenian Apostolic Church takes the initiative to oppose to the religious sects. The Church tries to activate work especially with the youth. The Youth Union of the Ararat Patriarchal diocese organizes meetings twice a week. {BR} «People usually learn about the meetings from their friends, sometimes from Mass Media. We already have many permanent visitors», the head of the Youth Union mentions....

Today in Tekeyan center the official registration of the organization “Education of Adults During their Whole life” took place. Since 2003 it existed without registration. {BR} “Today there are many adults who have higher education but are not able to find jobs. Naturally, they must be given a new specialty which may not be that of a University but may help them to find a job”, said member of the NGO “Education of Adults During their Whole...

The municipality of Stepanakert has issued a 1875 million AMD program of capital building for 2006. {BR} The program calls for the repair of the houses of poor families, roads, accomplishment of yards and building of new houses estates, re-distribution of water pipelines, etc. As reported by Karabakh-online, the 38th residential area will be built up with dwelling houses. Mayor of Stepanakert Eduard...

Two departments of “ArmenTel” have created a united strike committee. Today head of the committee Haroutyun Kharatyan announced that the executive director of “Informational Technologies” Kulogianis follows special policy to fire Armenian professionals and to appoint Greek specialists instead of them. {BR} He even brought examples of actions by Mr. Kulogianis. According to him, on Sunday, when all the Armenian specialists were not at work,...

Today, like every Monday, the people gathered opposite the Yerevan municipality to make the Yerevan mayor Yervand Zakharyan hear their voice of complaint. Let us remind you that they demand the municipality to compensate for the areas taken away from them. Nevertheless, those sitting in the municipality fail to hear their voice for months. {BR} While the participants of the meeting expressed their...

Only part of the RA citizens agree with Robert Kocharyan and the officials of the Republic about the economic growth of the country. 67% of the citizens of the country continue to live badly and do not notice and positive changes in their social conditions. {BR} Last week the pool question of the internet site “A1+” was “Do you feel the steady economic growth recorded in our country?” The answers were distributed as follows: No – 52.4% Yes...

“Did they take away the wardrobe too? And will they give be back my golden rings that lay in it? Where is the furniture of my house?” These were the questions asked by the resident of the Buzand street Lilya Ghazaryan who came home at about 03:00 p.m. and found that the staircase of her house has been destroyed. {BR} Naturally, Mrs. Ghazaryan had furniture in her house, but because of the absence of the staircase she cannot see which part of...

The Polish Republic tries to prove by action that they want not cooperation but friendship with Armenia. After the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the Seym on April 15 Poland made the next step. {BR} Some days ago in the town of Elblong in the Gdansk region an Armenian 2-meter high khachkar was opened with the image of the Bible on it and with the inscription in Armenian and Polish, “Devoted...

Today the RA Court of Cassation was to hear the case of Hovel Manandyan against the RA Social security state fund Vanadzor regional center. The two sides were present, but according to the complainant the session was postponed without any ground. {BR} The complainant has not received his old-age pension because of not having a social card. According to his advocate Arayik Papinyan, «The case has...

“Health is a very expensive pleasure and I think that people like my colleague micro-surgeon Artavazd Sahakyan should receive a salary amounting in $10 000- 15 000,” head physician of the clinic hospital of the Yerevan State Medical University Hayk Petrosyan says.{BR} The highest salary of a doctor in the hospital makes 36 000 AMD. As compared to the last year the sum has increased. According to Petrosyan, some extra payments may be given in...

Like any Thursday the residents of the city realization zone gathered in front of the government building urging justice and reconsideration of the compensation amount. {BR} “We gathered as usual, urged justice and presented our demands. Today there were many policemen and they did not allow to shout. One of them took me aside and said they will take me to the police station for disturbing the order....

During the period of January 1 – November 1 the Armenian Human Rights Defender received over 2220 petitions and complaints, 1315 of them were in written form.{BR} The number of complaints from regions makes 838, 504 of them – written. The statistical data is as follows: 439 were accepted for consideration, in 173 cases the complainants were offered the possibility to protect rights and freedoms, 148 complaints were conveyed to other bodies,...