Today two deputy Ministers of the RA legislative structures on the initiative of the «Liberation processes monitoring national center» represented to the journalists their opinions about the transparency of the activity of state bodies and accessibility of information. {BR} Deputy Minister of Justice Tigran Mukuchyan found raising of public awareness extremely important. According to him, the defense...

In the Yerevan State Theater and Cinematography Institute a new profession has been opened - sound directing. There are professions which are opened once in 4-5 years as, according to the dean of the faculty Narineh Sargsyan, there is no demand, like – choreography directing, cinematology, etc. {BR} At present there are 27 applicants in the Institute. The majority has applied to the directing faculty,...

For the first 6 months of 2005 the RA Defender of Human Rights received more than 1450 application-complaints, from which 849 – in written form. There have been 535 complaints from regions, and 343 – in written form. {BR} 231 complaints have been accepted for discussion, 68 applicants have been shown the possibilities of defending their rights, 48 complaints have been passed on to the corresponding...

Ukrainian singer Ruslana, the winner of the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest, agreed to support the campaign against human trafficking at a meeting in Kyiv with Helga Konrad, the OSCE Special Representative on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings. {BR} "I have been looking for opportunities to make use of my popularity for the benefit of the European community," said Ruslana, who is already a UNICEF...

On July 8 the summer camp «Tsitsernak» of the Armenian Apostolic Church Gugarq diocese will open its doors to the children. The camp was created 4 years ago. For these years about 4000 children from Lori Tavoush and other regions of Armenia have spent their summer holidays here. {BR} This year «Tsitsernak» became a complex including another camp for children – «Krunk». The complex has been completed with a pool, a new playground and sports...

Today is the birthday of the happiest and saddest artist of the Armenian cinematography and theater: Mher Mkrtchyan would be 75 today. «I had no childhood, no kindergarten, and no yard. What I saw was the theater since my early years», these are the words of Mher Mkrtchyan describing his love for theater from early childhood. {BR} He lived with the characters he embodied, so the audience so not...

During the first three months of 2005 the police revealed 66 cases of drug trafficking and usage instead of 92 of last year. {BR} In the first three months about 780 grams of drug has been confiscated from which 750 grams was marijuana. Last year for the same three months 2528 grams of drug had been confiscated from which 1398 grams was marijuana.

Today USA celebrates the Independence Day for the 229th time. In 1776 after the signing of the Declaration of Independence by the Founding Fathers the United States was announced an independent Republic. The principles found in this document have brought change to countries around the world. {BR} It has always been influential through the centuries to our own day. By the way, in the Independence Hall...

The Prime Minister of the country must depend on the President. This is the opinion of the readers of the “A1+” internet site who answered the poll question “Who should appoint the Prime Minister?”. {BR} 459 people voted in the poll. The votes were distributed as follows: President – 47.9% NA – 26.4% President jointly with the NA – 24.0% Undecided – 1.7% This week the poll question of our site is, “What way of changing the...

Every year in October the delegation of Trustees of the Armenian Assembly of America arrives in Armenia. «This year we decided to give the young Armenian of America the possibility to come to their mother land», says the regional head of t he ACA in Armenia Arpi Vardanyan. {BR} The program started on June 29 and it will last 12 days. The period of school vacations (June-July) has been chosen for...

The Holiday which comes 98 days after the Easter is called the Vardevar in the Armenian Apostolic Church. It is usually celebrated on July 28-August 1. This holiday is the most beloved among children as the national habit on this day is to pour water on each other. {BR}

The Social Ministry has decided to compromise and has agreed to introduce changes into the Law “On Social cards” but they are still against the non-obligatory principle. Today the RA Government Religion and National Minorities Administration head Hranoush Kharatyan informed us about it. {BR} Khachik Stamboltsyan, Aram Grigoryan and Hranoush Kharatyan met the deputy Social Minister. After long...

«In order to eliminate poverty people must work and not complain», said the governor of the Armavir region Albert Heroyan during today’s Open Forum of the Poverty combating strategic program in the Armavir region. {BR} According to the facts represented by the regional governor, in the region in 2003-2005 14 000 hectares of land has been sold in which there were no lands smaller than 50 hectares....

Today if someone calls you asking his own telephone number do not be surprised. {BR} “Viva Cell”, a.k.a. “K Telecom” has started the sale of its “Alo” cards in different parts of the city. Buying the card the subscribers do not know their telephone number and they can find it out only phoning someone. In the central office of the company in Argishti 4/1 there was a crowd of people buying cards. According to the workers, in the morning...

Neither the city administration nor the administration of the Kentron community are concerned over the polluted condition of the Hrazdan gorge. Such conclusion can be made after the action for refuse collection initiated by Heifer international organization. Head of the Heifer Armenian office Anahit Ghazanchyan informed that the recent investigations of the gorge showed that the pollution of some...

The sitting strike is going on without any result. Gathering at the government building Khachik Stamboltsyan, believers and pensioners for the fourth day already are demanding their pensioner be paid without social cards. No one except Hranush Kharatyan received the strikers and the latest meeting also proved useless. Yesterday Khachik Stamboltsyan met with Minister of Social Welfare Araik Petrosyan,...

The open-air cafes of the Hrazdan canyon and the Round park, as well as the restaurants «Now Dzoraberd» and «Urartu» on the Proshyan street are the noisiest places in Yerevan. According to the Yerevan municipality commerce and service department head Karen Gevorgyan, one of the reasons of loud noise in the open-air cafes is that the owners of the cafes are not aware of the allowed norms of music. {BR} According to the RA Health Ministry anti...

The only competitor of “ArmenTel” “K Telecom” announced about the tariffs of its service two days before entering the market. In case of buying a Classic Card they are very close to the lowered tariffs of “ArmenTel”, , but the competitor of the famous “Easy Card” – “Alo Card” offers service at quite a low price. {BR} First, “Alo Card” costs 7000 ARMD, and the head of the company Ralf Yerikyan assured several times that it...

Today the believer participants of the meeting opposite the Government building complained that the introduction of the social cards or, as they say, the numbering of people is the policy of eliminating Christians. «We were the first nation to adopt Christianity, and now we are the first to betray Jesus, they cried. {BR} Today the representatives of different sects quarreled with each other on the...

Today in Armenia the COE Yerevan school of political courses opened, which is the 12th of suchlike schools. This kind of schools are usually opened in COE new member-countries. {BR} By the way, in this respect Armenia has left behind Azerbaijan, where there is no school teaching European values yet. «Today we opened the school in Yerevan, and we hope that soon another one will be opened in Baku....

“Worse than in Europe, better than in the CIS”, Deputy Minister of Health Hayk Darbinyan stated when commenting on children’s and maternal mortality in Armenia. In his words, in case investments are made the conditions will improve, since there are problems with training of the medical staff and equipping the laboratories in the regions. {BR} 14 cases of maternal mortality were fixed...

In 10-15 days the coffee of the company «Royal-Armenia» may be ousted from the local market, as according to the representative of the company the Tax Committee does not give them license. Today the representatives of the JSC «Royal-Armenia» rendered a press conference to express their discontent with the State Tax Committee. {BR} According to the company head Gagik Hakobyan, the Committee does...

«Numbering is spiritual genocide», this is the opinion of a group of believers who organized an act of complaint opposite the Government building today. Together with Khachik Stamboltsyan and a group of old people they prayed and demanded the Government members not to make them get the social cards. They also demanded their old-age pensions and the wages they failed to get. {BR} «I do not want...

“The Armenian society rejects the drug addicts, in contrast to the developed countries where they are considered full members of the society”, says Arthur Potosyan, head of the Trans Caucasian Drug Trafficking and Drug Combat regional program Armenian non-governmental organizations net. In Armenia they are considered criminals, and in Europe – ill people. {BR} According to Arthur Potosyan, the drug addicts are people with mental disorder, as...