Today the resident of Noubarashen Andranik Pogosyan periodically visited the office of the community head candidate Mher Hovhannisyan and community head's office. In the morning he had gone to get his old-age pension but could not as he had no passport. {BR} «I don't know, there is a kiosk in the park, I gave it to them, and they gave 5000 drams to me and said that Mher must be elected. I will give...

The RA Ombudsman has sent letters to the RA President and the head of the Courts Council where she has referred to several court decisions about confiscating the property of the citizens by the programs of Yerevan reconstruction. According to the decisions, the owners are obliged to sign a contract with the customer for the money he offers. By the same decision the owner, the enumerated people registered...

«To eliminate begging of children, to help the needy families, to support the elderly», this is the motto of the non-governmental charity organization «Orran» with which it has been working for several years. {BR} The organization celebrates the 5th anniversary of its activity. Staring from 16 children, now it has 75 children and 100 old people under its care. In order to represent the work of the organization to the people and to get their...

Today the session of the RA Forests Repair and Development Fund Trustee Council took place which was presided over by the President of the Council, RA Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan. {BR} It was stated in the session that the non-governmental organization «Green Earth» was allotted 5 million ARMD to realize the planting of trees near the RA roads. A reference has also been made to the problems...

The ArmHydromet Service informs that starting form today the weather will become warmer, rains will stop and the wind will weaken. Up to September 12 the air temperature will raise by 12 degrees. {BR} The only bad news informed by the weathermen is that in the afternoon the sky will be cloudy. They also refuse to forecast the weather after September 12.

«When Shah Abas came to Armenia, the only church which was not leveled to earth was the Echmiadzin Holy Temple... P.S. The picture of Shah Abas was carved on the wall of the temple...». {BR} The residents of the Buzand street had written on the wall under the photo of the President Robert Kocharyan. All the houses subject to destruction have the photos of the President on their walls, as if intending...

Yesterday the Yerevan city administration started negotiations with the residents of the future North Avenue, who are not content with the compensation offered and refuse to abandon the territory on their own free will. During today’s’ press conference head of the investment and construction department Karen Davtyan said he is surprised at the complaints. In his words, 400 contracts had to be...

Today at 9 a.m. policemen pulled down the barricades at Byuzand Street. They met no resistance as the street residents were afraid of arrests. {BR} Last evening at about 7 p.m. policemen arrived at Byuzand street. However, seeing a crowd they retired. Maybe they refrained from rough actions because pictures of Robert Kocharian were stuck to the walls to be pulled down. To note, today the residents...

“If the referendum on constitutional reform were scheduled for the next Sunday would you take part in the voting?” Vox Populi, a project of the Center on Policy Attitudes held a telephone survey of 668 Yerevan residents September 2-4, 2005 {BR} The survey showed that the Armenian citizens are not ready to adopt constitutional amendments at present. Below are the results of the poll. Yes, I will – 13% I probably will – 11% I probably won’t...

“We have a very small number of professional literature in the Armenian language”, director of Noyan Tapan bookstore Hayk Mkrtchyan noted when commenting on one of the most serious problems our students face at present. “And the ones we have are too expensive, so the students have to make notes in the bookstore”, he added. {BR} The Russian translation of juridical, economic or medical textbooks...

According to the decision of the RA Economic Competition Defense state Committee August 12 decision, «ArmenTel» has paid 158 million 572 thousand 244 drams to the state budget. The company has represented a corresponding document to the Committee today. {BR} Let us remind you that the Committee had fined «ArmenTel» for abusing their high status in the RA telecommunication market and for the bad quality of the cellular communication.

Yerevan will be cleaned with the help of a Russian company with which the Armenian side has signed a contract to get refuse-cleaning containers. The head of the Construction, reconstruction and communal economy department of the Yerevan municipality Frunzik Basentsyan informed about it today. {BR} The residents of the Arabkir community will be the first to get the new containers. They will arrive...

Today at 08:00 a.m. 5 families were to be evicted from the Buzand street. The eviction is supposed to be repeated daily till there are no old dwellers in the street. {BR} Today residents of the North and Main Avenues, other citizens, students, representatives of non-governmental organizations were gathered in the street in order not to allow the eviction to be carried out. At about 10:30 – 11:00...

“1830-2005”: under the mourning poster with this title the residents of the Buzand street organized a requiem this evening. Every passer-by could approach the table in the middle of the street and raise a glass in memory of the historical street which is being destroyed before our eyes today. Approaching the table many people mentioned that they are drinking not to the memory of the Buzand street but to that of the RA Government. {BR} In the...

The RA Notary system tries to correspond to the European standards. The system has been examined by experts from France, Switzerland and Rome. In today's press conference in the RA Justice Ministry Jean-Paul Decor, a notary from Marseille said that the RA Law on «Notary's office» adopted in 2002 is «a law of high quality». {BR} He has also met the workers of the 3 offices in Yerevan and came to...

«I wish for the Artsakh independence to be perpetual as it was won at the cost of numerous lives. May Artsakh to develop together with Armenia. Let the rainbow after the rain gather all the Armenians from all over the world together», this is the wish of Epraxia Karapetyan who lost his son and his 60-year-old husband in the Karabakh war. {BR} On September 2 the population of the Republic of Nagorno...

The Komitas Pantheon which was to be subject of reconstruction three years ago has finally caught the attention of the authorities. 96 million drams have been allotted from the state budget for reconstruction works. {BR} The works started on June and they will finish in October, according to the director of the Pantheon Grisha Hunanyan. The construction is realized according to the project of Stepan...

One of the central streets of Yerevan – the Buzand street near the Republic square, has been “decorated” with barricades since yesterday. They were built along the street at a distance of several meters from one another. It is noteworthy that the raw material for the barricades was the ruins of the houses leveled to earth “for state needs”. {BR} “Maybe the objection of the Buzand street residents will bring the people to their senses...

Tomorrow 400 thousand dollars will be paid to the state budget. “ArmenTel” will finally realize the decision of the Armenian Economic Competition Defense Committee which was made on August 12. {BR} The Committee fined the Armenian-Greek joint company “ArmenTel” for bad quality of cellular connection and obliged it to pay the fine of 400 thousand dollars to the state budget within10 days. “ArmenTel” appealed the decision of the Committee...

From today on the Ararat region town of Artashat had a reconstructed building of hte court of first instance. The resondtrustion was realized withing the framework of the credt program “Court Reforms”, and a sum of 184.3 million drams has been spent. The Court consists of three parts: forbidden region for the accused only, restricted region for the judges and public region which is free for everyone. {BR} All the high-ranked officials of the...

The World Bank assigned $1 million 170 thousand for the program supporting those dismissed due to the optimization of the general education system. {BR} The dismissed teachers will be rendered consultative and psychological services. Those teachers, who wish to acquire a new profession will be trained in accord with the market demand. Till today 2000 teachers have been registered in the regional...

On August 28 at about 08:30 a.m. on the roof of the building near the Nor Norq 9th quarter house N15 the dead body of Amalya Matevosyan, resident of the above mentioned building has been found. {BR} The Police have not aroused a criminal case, as according to the Nor Norq and Avan Prosecutor chief assistant Hovsep Hovsepyan, there were no traces of violence on the dead body. “It was an accident”,...

September 1, 2005 will mark the beginning of a one-month event at the Armenia Mariott Hotel in Yerevan aimed at raising awareness about and funds for Armenia’s destitute children and elderly population. {BR} In the month of September, the Armenia Marriott will give its guests the opportunity to interact with and contribute to the future of the children and elderly of Orran, a benevolent non-governmental...

New people are added to the group of those shelterless who have been ousted of their houses. Together with the residents of the North Avenue, Buzand and Yeznik Koghbaci streets the residents of Kanaker and Malatia-Sebastia are already participating in marches. {BR} In the Malatia-Sebastia community there are good pieces of land too. In particular, the lands of the ex collective economy N22, which...