«Who should appoint members of independent committees? » 220 readers answered the question in our internet poll. The votes were distributed the following way: National Assembly – 52.7% President and NA (50/50) – 16.4% Undecided – 11.8% President by NA's proposal – 10.0% NA by President's proposal – 5.0% RA President – 4.1% This week the poll question of our site is «In you opinion, what line should be a priority of the Armenian...

“The nuclear weapon was created by the scientists and only they can find anti-weapon against it”, the head of the Armenian “Center of principal sciences and technologies” Samvel Apikyan informed “A1+”. {BR} In the margins of the NATO program “Science for the Sake of Peace” today scientists of 16 countries of the world met in the National Academy of Science. On Samvel Apikyan’s initiative till October 5 the scientists will try to...

61-year-old Hrachik Haroutyunyan watched with tears in his eyes how the furniture of his house in Buzand 17 was being taken into the lorry. They were taken in not by the residents of the house, but by the workers of the court officers. The court officers did not even allow Hrachik Hovhannisyan to enter his house, as he is not registered there. {BR} «It is now clear why they postponed the eviction....

Foreigners show great interest in the fate of the residents of Buzand street. Presently a film about the street, its residents and their struggle is being shot.{BR} Today members of one of Belgian TV Companies accompanied the protesters to the government building. It should be noted that the problem was never enlightened by the Armenian TV. Today’s event was not an exception.

Today fortune favored the residents of the Northern and Main Avenues, the owners of Dalma gardens and the tenants of lands adjacent to Dalma, who gathered in front of the government building today. {BR} Deputy Mayor of Yerevan Kamo Areyan, head of the municipal department of real estate Mazmanyan and head of the office of investment programs and settlement Karen Davtyan came to listen to the protesters....

The President of Equatorial Guinea has already made friends with the head of the Union of Armenians of Russia Ara Abrahamyan and will soon arrive in Moscow as his personal guest. {BR} This is the last thing Ara Abrahamyan is doing in return to the setting free of the Armenian pilots imprisoned in Guinea. Before that an investment of 2 million USD was made for the construction of the Guinea irrigation...

The Government has approved the RA draft Law on “RA 2006 State Budget” which will be represented to the RA NA. According to the RA 2006 budget there will be 465 billion ARMD as income and 534.9 billion AMRD as expense. The deficit will be 69.9 billion AMRD. {BR} In 2006 the budget allotments to the social, health and education fields will be increased. Alongside with that, the civic workers and...

The trial of the assassination of Gourgen Margaryan in Hungary has been postponed once again till December 15. During the trial the Armenian officer who had left for Hungary with Gourgen Margaryan gave evidence The testimony of the officer from Lithuania who was absent from the trial has also been read. As for the second Azeri officer, he was absent from the trial for the third time with the sane excuse...

September 27 has been celebrated as the International Day of Tourism since 1890. The companies serving on the UN system have chosen the day because it’s the end of season in the northern hemisphere and the beginning of the season in the southern one. {BR} This year the topic of the Day of Tourism will be “Transport and traveling: from the fantasies of Jules Verne to the realities of the 21st century.” To...

While “victims of state needs” gathered opposite the Yerevan municipality and demanded a meeting with the Yerevan mayor, the chief architect of the capital Samvel Danielyan told the journalists inside the building how they will reconstruct the areas “bought” for state needs. {BR} Today during the usual briefing Mr. Danielyan spoke about the monuments of historical-cultural importance. Their list has finally been verified by the Government....

«Poverty in the villages is to be reduced by 5% in the coming 5 years», said deputy head of the «Millennium Challenges» Fund Armenian group Hovhannes Azizyan. According to him, the MC will spend about $175 million for reduction of poverty. {BR} Mr. Azizyan informed that the Armenian Government managed to reduce poverty from 50.7% to 47.5% in the last 5 years spending $100 million. Asked the question...

The chances for the Constitutional amendments to be adopted are rather low, at least for the time being. The results of the internet poll organized by “A1+” last week come to prove that 73.6% of the participants of the voting have negative attitude towards the Constitutional amendments. {BR} 318 citizens have answered the poll question “How will you vote at the upcoming referendum on constitutional amendments?” The votes have been distributed...

“Corruption is the wrong solution of Governmental problems. There is a wrong opinion about corruption risks. Some think they will be eliminated alongside with the solution of social problems. In fact, any change, any new mechanism brings new corruption risks eliminating the previous ones”, said head of the program “Support for Informational Society and Democratic Governing” Vahan Asatryan....

The Lins Fund office «Disaster zone rehabilitation» ceased its activity. This is accounted for by the fact that money from the fund will not be spent on reconstruction works in that territory. {BR} Nevertheless, the fact does not come to prove that Robert Kocharyan has kept one of his pre-election promises – eliminate the «disaster zone» phenomenon. Let us remind you that the Lins Fund has build 3700 houses in the disaster zone.

Today the session of the Lins Fund Governing Council took place, during which the new working plan of the structure was being discussed. Using the $150 million successfully for the last few years, the fund is going is pass on to the usage of the coming $60 million. {BR} The promised sum is not yet given, so the Armenian branch of the Lins Fund asked the RA Government for some money for the project...

Today the Power Minister Armen Movsisyan finally gave some information about the sale of the Armenian power network. {BR} “The company “Midland Resources” informs they are no more interested in the power investments in the region, so they turned to us with the request to pass the network to “RAO EES”, said the Minister. At the same time, he praised the new customer – the Russian company, “When I was a newly appointed Minister, everyone...

Today in the US Embassy to Armenia announced the 2005-2006 school year of FLEX and UGRAD scholarship programs opened. In the margins of the program FLEX 50 pupils will be able to leave for USA this year. Up to now 470 pupils have won in this program and lived in American families for a year. {BR} Naneh Abrahamyan who is responsible for the program FLEX in Armenia informed us that there were cases...

On September 23 14 years ago the RA Supreme Council declared Armenia an independent democratic country excluded from the Soviet Union, based on the results of the pan-national voting two days ago. {BR} “We were simply a colony in the USSR, and that’s what we still are now. We are not independent and we will never be, until Van and Kars are ours, until we have large territory. Until then the word “independence” is an empty one”, 68-year-old...

We apologize for technical disorder because of which you did not find fresh information in our site up to now. From now on the site will be refreshed as always. We expect your understanding. {BR}

«Our greatest misfortune is to remain alive. We have no rights to fall ill, feed and choose. Even if we appeal to the court we will be evicted», the refugees residing in the second building of Erebuni Hotel said today. {BR} 35 families live in the hotel at present. 17 of them are refugees from Gyumri. In 2004 the families were informed that the building was sold to Ginekar LTD, which allocated $200...

September 21 17-year-old David Harutyunyan will arrive in Armenia from Yekatirenburg. {BR} Native of Karabakh, the boy left the homeland together with his father. For 13 years they have lived in the Russian town of Nizhni Tagil. Thanks to the efforts by Armenian Human Rigts Defender Larisa Alaverdyan and head of the department of human rights of the Sverdlovks oblast Tatyana Merzlyakova the boy was...

Robert Kocharyan who presided over the latest Government session had given three days to the Power Ministry to clear up all the misunderstandings in the sale contract of the Armenian electricity network to the Russian company “RAO EES”. {BR} The three days are gone, and no one knows what the Power Ministry workers have spent them on, but today till late in the evening they assured us that they...

Today at about 03:00 – 03:30 p.m. there was a fire on the roof of the fifth house on Nalbandyan street, just in front of the Underground station “Republic Square”. {BR} At 03:27 the fire brigade had located the fire and at 04:21 it was put down completely. The reasons of the fire are not yet known, and the fire fighting department said that further investigation would find everything out. The roof of the house has not been damaged much as...

Today the «Human Rights and Democracy Institute» (HRDI) organized the presentation of the book “Democracy, Education and Multi-Cultureness: the Alternative of the Civilization in the Global World”. The author was Carlos Alberto Torrez, professor of the California University. {BR} WE cannot tell you anything about the book as asked this question the organizers of the presentation demanded the journalists to give written grounds for what they...