The other day 65-year-old Lyuba Mkrtchyan was brought to the surgical center after Gyulbekyan, Tsayg TV Company reports {BR} According to traumаtologist Gabriel Hakobyan, policemen found the deaf-and-dumb woman on the way to Atsik at 11 a.m. After the check-up it turned out that Lyuba Mkrtchyan had a cold, chilblains of lower extremities and a scratch on the eyelid. Later the policemen found...

''Lung cancer occupies the first place among the illnesses people suffer from. Annually over 900 patients with lung cancer are registered'', Vahe Ter-Minasyan, the chairman of the commission on public relations of the Armenian Association of Doctors stated during the ''Struggle against smoking'' seminar held in the Union of Journalists today. In his words, doctors assure that smoking causes lung diseases....

The trial of Ramil Safarov is to be resumed on February 8th, 2005 in Budapest, Hungary. {BR} Armenian citizen Gurgen Margaryan, 26 years old, was hacked to death while asleep by Ramil Safarov, a Lieutenant of the Azerbaijani Army. Both were participants of an English language training course within the framework of the NATO-sponsored “Partnership for Peace” program held in Budapest, Hungary.

Every year 1000 children are born in the region of Tavoush, but in the 3 birth houses of Tavoush there are not even elementary conditions. And it is not the Armenian Government but the British Embassy that is concerned about this problem. The lives of the Armenian sick newborn children are saved thanks to the generosity shown in the Burns Supper. {BR} Torda Ebbott Wott, Ambassador of Great Britain...

Several employees of the Emergency Department firefighting service of Ararat and Armavir regions were gathered in front of the governmental building today. At the very moment when Albert Heroyan, governor of Armavir region, was praising the moral-psychological atmosphere in the region, the driver of one of the ED employees was shouting at those who had come to the meeting, «If you are not pleased...

Rafael Shahmouradyan, the President of «Armenia-Lada», was killed in Tolyati, Russia. It might be useful to remind that on May 24 last year Shahmouradyan's life was made an attempt on. He was shot from a car of «NIVA» mark. {BR} Rafael Shahmouradyan, whose survival was like a miracle, said after coming to his senses that he had serious doubts that the organizer of the attempt was Andranik Manoukyan,...

Those people who do not believe that the Yerevan streets are being cleaned are invited by Ashot Sargsyan, the head of the Yerevan municipality Construction, improvement and communal department, to go to the streets of the city at night. If the streets were not cleaned, as he mentioned in the press conference today, they would be impassable now. {BR} «There are no impassable streets in Yerevan»,...

An increase of cardiovascular diseases is observed in the Shirak region, our colleagues from the Gyoumry TV “Tsayg” say. According to specialists, it is conditioned by the continuous changes in the weather, as well as the increase of the sun activity observed on January 19. {BR} Although the growing acute of cardiovascular diseases usually takes place in spring and autumn, the statistics...

On February 3, at about 21 o’clock 3 armed and masked people broke into the office of the “Metexim” LTD on Tamanyan street, quarreled with the director of the department, then one of them shot to desk from a rifle with shortened receiver “Toz”, and hit the head of the director with the rifle, after which they ran away. {BR} The criminals threw the rifle near the door of...

Today the Court of the First Instance of Center and Nork-Marash, with Gayaneh Karakhanyan at the head, finished the hearings of the case on hindering the professional activities of Armenian Times reporter Arman Galoyan.{BR} The Court found Armen Vardanyan guilty and sentenced to 1 year of correctional work in his office, with 20% of the wages being passed to the state budget. The accused also compensated...

Today in the session of the NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs the offer of putting the draft law by Victor Dallakyan about the return of the deposits was denied. {BR} «I am aware of the decision of the committee. A clear-cut political agreement has been reached, and the opposition delegates have also taken part in it till boycotting», said Arthur Baghdasaryan. The essence of the agreement...

«God gave law to the jews, alphabet to the Armenians, and internet to the Americans», said John Evans, the US Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Armenia today in the hotel «Marriott-Armenia» in the opening celebration of the new internet site of the US Embassy. «Internet is democracy», said the Ambassador. According to Mr. Evans, with the help of this site people can learn how transparent...

On February 7 the Lent starts. It lasts 48 days, from the Main Barekendan till the Holy Resurrection or Easter. This year the Holy Resurrection will be celebrated on March 27. {BR} During the Lent food of exceptionally vegetable origin is used. But people must renounce not only particular kinds of food, but also bad habits, such as talkativeness, lying, swearing, and other sins. Renouncing food without...

This year on February 6 the Armenian Apostolic Church celebrates the holiday of Main Barekendan. It is celebrated on the eve of the Lent and is called Great or Main Barekendan. «Barekendan» means happy life, bed of roses. In the religious meaning it reminds of the paradise in which Adam and Eve lived. {BR} Before sinning man was immortal. This life was a real happiness for him because he lived in...

General Rafik Karapetyan, Head of the Veteran Council, summoned today a press conference to complain of state carelessness about the 9241 veterans. According to him, 600 thousand soldiers from Armenia took part in the Second World War, half of which fell victims to it, only 3% of those returned is now alive, and the youngest veteran is older than 80. {BR} According to General Karapetyan, the veterans...

During the last few days there has been an unprecedented and also very suspicious interest towards the internet site of A1+. And as a result of this interest the readers have been deprived of the possibility of using our internet site. The causes of this unpleasant surprise are being investigated. In the meantime, dear reader, if you find it difficult to open the site www.a1plus.am, use the site home.a1plus.am. We...

By a decree of the RA President of January 20, 2005 a competition was announced to fill in the vacancies in the Council of Public Television and Radio Company of Armenia. February 1 was the deadline for the application submission. We did not make a statement during the application process not to interfere with it. Presently we think it necessary to reinstate our stance on the mechanism of broadcasting...

As reported by Yerkramas, the newspaper of the Armenians of South of Russia, vandals damaged a monument to the Armenians, who had founded the town of Budennovsk (Stavropol region of Russia). The opening ceremony of the complex ''For the Fathers, the Founders of the Town of Saint Cross'' took place on October 17, 2004. The complex consists of an 8-meter high arch, a Khachkar (cross-stone) and a stone...

Today in the Government the issues about the exploitation and control of the gas-supply system used by the population have been discussed. Main attention has been paid to the safe exploitation of the inside-the-house part of the system. {BR} It might be useful to remind that during the winter season the cases of poisoning and death have been sharply increased because of technical shortcomings and disorders...

During the last few days there has been an unprecedented and also very suspicious interest towards the internet site of A1+. And as a result of this interest the readers have been deprived of the possibility of using our internet site. The causes of this unpleasant surprise are being investigated. In the meantime, dear reader, if you find it difficult to open the site www.a1plus.am, use the site home.a1plus.am. We...

The refugees who 15 years ago found shelter in the previous party school in Nork gardens 227 continue to be evicted psychologically. It might be useful to remind that the refugees from Baku had privatized their living area in 2002-2003. The ground for privatization was the documents from all the state structures of Armenia, including the Yerevan municipality and Nork-Marash community that the building...

”There are cases when the information given by me is distorted”, complained Sajat Shirinyan, head of the information department of the RA Police, from the work of the journalists. He sees a tendency in the work of the journalists of compromising the work of the policemen and called on all the journalists to give him information about bad policemen before writing the article, not after that.{BR} ...

The Armenian Police will soon have their web-site, as informed Sajat Shirinyan, head of the information department of the RA Police. {BR} “The site is being processed now”, said Mr. Shirinyan. He also informed that the opening of the site will be in April, “sometime close to the Day of Policemen”. As it was told, the history of police and letters of the citizens will be included in the site.

According to the decision of the Mayor of Yerevan, buses 3 and 1 have conveyed passengers for 100 drams since December 2004. The decision was made because of the high prime cost of the process of conveying passengers by buses.{BR} However, from today the bus fare will make 70 drams, for after the rise in prices the number of passengers reduced sharply. t the same time the buses following the route 26 will convey passengers for 100 drams.