On Monday, Yereven mayor Yervand Zakharyan, speaking at a news conference, said the construction of the municipality new building is expected to be completed by Nov 26.{BR} The mayor spoke also on the dilapidated buildings that are badly in need of repair and pose threat to the tenants. He says there are many buildings in Yerevan’s Achapnyank district that are in extremely precarious state and...

Regional conference on “Cooperative Learning and Integrated Curriculum” will take place from November 12 to 14 in Yerevan. {BR} International Research & Exchanges Board, IREX, has organized it with the drafts on curriculum development and teacher training project in elementary and middle-school education. It is funded by U.S. Department of State. During the conference American Doctors...

Besides one-day-long strike, companies rendering Internet phone services, held a protest action near Parliament building. Hundreds of employees of about 200 managing establishments doing IP service have today assembled at Demirchyan Street entrance of Parliament. {BR} They were holding placards with the following expressions on: “Government has turned off telephone, so try later, please!”,...

130 best students from Armenian universities were selected today to be given the scholarship set by Armenian-Russian business cooperation association and distributed by Panarmenian Youth Fund.{BR} These 130 were chosen from the 675 students aspiring to the scholarship. The ceremony of handing the scholarship will take place on Nov 17 in the house of the government.

Statistics say 2,467 were born and 1,786 died for last nine months in Armenian province of Shirak struck by devastating earthquake in1988.{BR} Birth rate rose 3,7 percent comparing to previous year. Figures show precipitous fluctuations in the birth rate in post-quake period. The birth peaked at the highest rate in 1991. After that, it became going down. Officials say there was a year, when...

Kurds residing in Armenia have gone on 3-day-long hunger-strike in “Kurdistan Committee” in Teryan, 32, in Yerevan since morning. “The action was initiated in support of freedom for Abdullah Ojalan, nationwide leader of Kurd people and improvement of prison conditions”, Commune representatives say. {BR} Jenika Ghadir, Vice-Chair of “Kurdistan Committee” expressed...

Today is the Youth International Day. It is not celebrated for the masses in Armenia. According to Atom Mkhitaryan, Chairman of Youth Club Bloc, it would be wiser if the organizations occupied with the issues of young people introduced today the problems of Armenia’s youth. {BR} Recently Youth Club Bloc by support of UNO has established an expert group, which started studying the problems...

Telephone stations workers intend to go on strike to express their attitude toward Armenian government’s recent decision giving ArmenTel sole control over IP telephony.{BR} Amendments to the company license gave it unrestricted powers, said Mushegh Militonyan, one of the initiators of the strike, at a news conference held Tuesday. The strike initiators fear the government decision will pose...

A news conference focused on the isolated case on masterminds of October 27 terrorist act committed in 1999 in Armenian parliament is to be held Tuesday in Armenian Prosecutor General Office.{BR} However, not every journalist will given access to the event, despite this contradicts to the Armenian law. Chief of the office’s unit on public relations Gurgen Ambaryan empowered himself to decide...

The criminal case instituted over the explosion in office block of Samtckhe-Javakhq District a year ago is still under examination. The guard of the block who became invalid because of the explosion demands for compensation. {BR} According to A-INFO Agency, Department of Inner Affairs continues examining the case over the explosion in the representative office of Georgian President in Samtckhe-Javakhq...

”Earthquake will occur in Armenia”. The rumor has been spread not only in Yerevan but also in the districts. Even the approximate time was mentioned. In some schools of Yerevan pupils have been sent to the houses. {BR} According to the employees of “SP-Info” information service, the telephones of the service ring all the time. Everybody wants to know the telephone numbers...

Yerevan Lake hasn’t been cleaned for more than 10 years. During the time mud of 1 million cubic meters has been accumulated. Specialists found that the mud contains toxic substances like copper and cadmium. The quantity exceeds all the approved norms. “If the mud is extracted, it can be used as fertilizer”, Romik Kosemyan, head of Municipality Department on Conservancy says. Municipality...

Irrigation line 135 kilometers at length was drawn for preservation of the green zones and protection of them from fires. Romik Kosemyan, head of Municipality Department on Conservancy, assures the action will enable to take care of the green zone of about 600 hectares. {BR} In case of illegal cutting of the trees registered in “The Red Book” Municipality will apply a new price for damage...

Yerevan Municipality Monitoring Group for Conservancy studied activity of 35 managing subjects in Yerevan and fixed: there are no sewer outlet networks in 26 of them. As a result the industrial waste of the establishments - chemical, food and sewerage, are thrown into Getar and Hrazdan River. 7 out of 26 are located in Hrazdan Canyon. {BR} Romik Kosemyan, head of Municipality Department on Conservancy,...

As part of a broad program of U.S. assistance on law enforcement and rule of law issues, two senior police detectives from Glendale, California provided technical training to 16 Armenian police investigators. The training, funded by the U.S. Embassy’s office of the State Department Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL), covered a wide range of police topics, including...

Arevshat Avagyan, Chairman of Armenian Fund of Culture promised to hold various measures among his coming meetings. The first meeting took place a few days ago with participation of the ex residents of Northern Avenue and the staff of Library after Avetiq Isahakyan. Protestors marched from Yerevan Municipality along Justice Ministry to Government. {BR} Today’s action was devoted to preservation...

At noon the employees of “Planting of Greenery” CJSC cut a tree of 120-150 centimeters in diameter in Pushkin Park of Yerevan. “The tree was sick, so we cut it”, tree-cutters explained to the passers-by. {BR} Tree trunk wasn’t withered, so there is no satisfactory argument that the tree was subject to cutting for sanitary reasons. ”There is the Mayor’s...

At November 2 night fire burst in the three-storied building of the school in Dashbash Armenian village of Tsalka District. {BR} According to A-INFO, Zurab Narchemashvili, head of Home Affairs Department of Tsalka District informed on the case that fire occurred because of negligence of the workers constructing the building. By the words of Mr. Narchemashvili, after finishing the daily job constructors...

The bloc of 9 social organizations held a press conference on 2 issues. One of them regarded participation of social organizations in “Elaboration and monitoring of national policies for education”. {BR} The member organizations of this bloc make exactly as many as “Justice” Bloc – 9. But the group of social organizations on “Education for Everyone” chose...

On Wednesday, opposition activist Arshak Sadoyan, using his legitimate right to attend government sessions, was present at the government’s extraordinary session, where the fate of ArmenTel Greek-Armenian company providing telecommunication services was to be decided.{BR} He is convinced the company is involved in many illegal deals. Even after the session, Sadoyan remained steadfast in his...

On Wednesday, Armenian government made a decision at its session on conducting a tender for the right to provide communication services in Global Mobile System area and set up a commission headed by transport and communication minister Andranik Manukyan.{BR} The commission is made up of justice, economy, finance and defence deputy ministers and the government-affiliated state property unit’s...

Hearing of the lawsuit against Ruben Sahakyan was to be heard Wednesday is postponed again.{BR} People, who fled their homes in Baku 15 years ago and took refuge in Armenia, are now under threat of being evicted from their current homes in Yerevan. For years they lived in the building of abandoned higher school of Communist party. Using their legitimate right for privatization of the premises in...

Armenian government will convene an extraordinary session on Wednesday to discuss its further steps on ArmenTel. The government decided last week to waive its recent order on putting in force its recent decision on changes in ArmenTel’s license.{BR} It was decided last week to postpone the decision enforcement for 10 days. The government gave time to justice ministry for submitting proposals....

”I advise to read and not to become aware”, Mkrtich Zardaryan, senior analyst of Institute of Open Society and Regional Progress said at presentation of ”Religion and Policy in Caucasus” Russian book. {BR} Scientists of Armenia, Georgia, Russia, Finland and USA discuss in the book the religious and political issues of Caucasus – Moslem radicalism in Northern Caucasus,...