President of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Arkady Ghoukassian received famous American philanthropist of Armenian origin Alber Boyadjian. The participants of the meeting exchanged opinions on the prospects of the NKR development and improvement. {BR} In the course of the talk with journalists A.Boyadjian told about the aims of his visit to Nagorno Karabakh noting that earlier during the NKR President’s...

«In the Court everything is false, and the lawyers do not want to speak to us», said Samvel Markosyan, soldier and invalid of the first group during the meeting at the Government building. {BR} The meeting was organized by the families of the dead soldiers, participants of the World War, invalids and those having many children, who had been allotted lands in the Kourghinyan and Sebastia areas by...

Garegin II Catholicos of All Armenian received in the Holy Echmiadzin the mountaineers from Iran who in memory of the Genocide victims climbed up Ararat and Sipan on April 24. {BR} Greeting the mountaineers, His Holiness voiced confidence that they initiative will have its role on the recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide. «Every Armenian has the image of Ararat in his soul wherever...

«We are pleased with the tempo of the construction of the North Avenue», said Yerevan mayor Yervand Zakharyan informing that the main work will finish at the end of 2006 and the whole construction will finish in 2007. {BR} For the building of several parts of the Avenue the municipality has announced a competition with the demand of $40 for one square km and not 20 as it was envisaged by the Government....

Although the Kievyan brigde is being reconstructed, the tram lines which are no longer used will not be deconstructed. «We have calculatied that if the lines are deconstructed, 2.5 times more money is needed for reconstructing that part of the street than the money gained from the selling of the metal. That is, it is not profitable, and we need investments. We hope that the «Lins» fund will allot...

“Do you think that deputy immunity should be cancelled?” This was the poll question in the A1+ internet site for the previous week. 268 citizens have taken part in the poll. {BR} 69.4% of the participants voted for cancelling deputy immunity, and 25% were against. 5.6% found it difficult to answer the question.

Today there are 4000 Assyrians in Armenia. According to Razmik Khosroev, member of the National Minorities Council attached to the RA President, today the most urgent problem for the Assyrians is that of education. According to him, a school textbook in Assyrian was published 15 year ago, and the pupils have to get education in Russian. {BR} The Assyrian schools are closed because of the reduction...

With the positive conclusion of the NA Standing Committee on Defense, National Security and Internal Affairs the draft law about the building of a store for the nuclear fuel processes in the “Armenian Nuclear Power Station” LTD will be included in the agenda of the NA Spring session. The draft law was represented by Minister of Energy Armen Movsisyan. {BR} The draft law offers to allow building a storehouse for the processes nuclear fuel for...

Today in the Tekeyan center the final phase of the inter-school debate-competition took place. Starting form 2004 September the educational non-governmental organization «Youth Achievements» together with the fund «Jinishyan» realizes the project of creating debate clubs in schools of Yerevan, Gyumri and Vanadzor. {BR} More than 750pupils of 30 schools took part in the project, and 20 pupils took part in the final phase. The themes of debate...

Not long ago when replacing wires of the 44th telephone station Armentel has blocked the cash machines of the ArCa system. Today the 5-th birthday of the company was celebrated in the Central Bank. {BR} During a press conference ArCa Executive Director Shahen Hovhannisyan stated that the company might bring a suit against Armentel. He also informed that a system of joining the wires of the cash machines...

«I saw war with my own eyes. It is terrible. But if we are forced we will fight», a widow of one of the fighters of Karabakh war, member of Women's Association Shushanik Abrahamyan said at the press conference today. {BR} The Association members state that international negotiations on the Karabakh conflict can cause violations of the cease-fire. They do not admit any possibility of territory ceding....

The sources of hydrocarbon are exhausting all over the world to date resulting in rise in prices for gas, oil and electric power. Proceeding from energy security the problem was solved long ago in the Scandinavian states, where alternative sources for heating the dwelling houses or other domestic demands are used. Taking onto consideration the fact that climate conditions of Armenia are alike those...

“When are our authorities going to stop the white genocide against the residents? We cannot live calmly in our homeland”, Our Home Armenia party chairman Vachagan Chibukhchyan stated during a protest action held at the government building today. The residents of Yeznik Koghbatsi, Pavstos Byuzand, and Amiryan Streets demand re-consideration of the RA Government decrees.{BR} February 25,...

Today the chamber music theater is at the edge of collapse. The theater staff has divided into two parts trying to give way to conflict via mass media.{BR} The problems is that 3 months ago by decree of the Minister of Culture head of Alfa El producing center Levon Abrahamyan was appointed new director. In the latter’s words, he had made big contributions to the development of the theater. However...

On the initiative of the company «PA Consulting» today in Hotel Yerevan the journalists met Peter Bradford, who has long worked in New York as head of the Committee regulating public services. Before coming to Armenia he has been to Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Russia for consultation purposes. {BR} In Ukraine he worked before the revolution and he does not know what changes there have been...

John Evans, the US Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, planted a pine tree in the Aragatsotn region Karin village. He confessed that this is the first tree he has ever planted in Armenia. The event of the Tree-Planting day was organized by the office of the program «Armenia-Tree-planting». On their initiative this year in Armenia 90 thousand trees will be planted dedicated to the 90th anniversary...

By the blessing of the Catholicos of all Armenians Garegin II the Holy Echmiadzin in cooperation with the RA Education and Science Ministry realizes the program «Script and Commandment» dedicated to the 1600th anniversary of the Armenian scripts. {BR} According to the program, from April 20 till May 6 pupils of the 9-10th grades of Yerevan and regional schools will visit the Holy Echmiadzin and...

Yesterday in Kapan Garegin Njdeh was reburied for the third time. The funeral ceremony took place in connection with the 84th anniversary of the Mountainous Armenia in the Njdeh monument on the slopes of the Mountain Khustoup. In 1983 Njdeh's ashes were brought to Armenia from the Russian town Vladimir by linguist Varag Araqelyan, and as the participants of the funeral informed, till 1987 it was kept...

In the USA in the Boston Armenian old-age house at the age of 105 died the Gayane – the wife of Dro – Drastamat Kanayan, one of the heroes of the Armenian National Liberation War. {BR} Gayane Kanayan had her investment into the Armenian life. She has especially done much for the realization of the programs of the Armenian Aid Union.

In San Paulo in the Armenian Apostolic and Armenian Catholic Churches grand masses have been celebrated in memory of the victims of the Genocide, after which hundreds of participants have marched to the monument to the Genocide victims near the Churches. {BR} Near the monument at the presence of the Brazil National Guards of Honor after the blowing of horns first a spiritual and then a civic ceremony...

The 90th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide was marked in Strasbourg. At noon the representatives of the RA NA deputy president and PACE RA delegation head Tigran Torosyan, RA permanent representative in EU Q. Ter-Stepanyan, mayor reprentative Grand, Russian chief consul to Strasbourg and Armenian community of Elzas put flowers to the memorial to the victims of the Genocide in the Strasbourg State...

Tigran Ghazaryan, head of the Yerevan municipality transport administration, claims that the Kievyan bridge reconstruction will not hinder the work of the route taxis. At present 26 routes pass by Kievyan, 24 of which are route taxis, and 2 are buses. {BR} For more than 2 months the main part of the transport will pass by the Davtashen bridge. The Tsitsernakaberd highway is the second by its business,...

The tram lines on the bridge Kievyan will not be deconstructed. Or, to be more exact, they will not be deconstructed during the reconstruction which will start in April, as no money is allotted for that purpose. Ashot Sargsyan, head of the municipality construction improving and communal economy administration, informed about it today. According to him, the 350 million drams allotted for the reconstruction...

«What should the Security Council status be?», this was the poll question of the «A1+» internet site this week. 233 people participated in it. The majority – 57.9% think that its status must be envisaged by the Constitution. {BR} 20.6% think that it must be a purely consultational body, and 12.4% think it should not exist at all. For 9% it is all the same what the Security Council status will be. This week the site poll will try to find out...