Arthur Potosyan, the head of the program of South Caucasus organizations having common goal of combating drug abuse, says the organizations’ network should intensify anti-drug propaganda targeting the most vulnerable strata of the society.{BR} Figures given by law enforcement showed drug addicts are count from 10,000 to 20,000 in Armenia. Their overwhelming majority use hashish and marihuana....

As it was reported earlier, Liberty radio station in Armenia ceased functioning. Heads of different Armenian TV companies explained the fact saying the broadcasting was halted because of technical and management problems.{BR} Mesrop Movsessyan, the head of A1+ TV Company, came up Friday with an initiative. He pledged support to the Liberty radio station and offered to provide digital equipment and...

Baghdasar Hovhannisyan, principal of a secondary school in Sazel village of Georgia’s Armenian-dominated Samtskhe-Javakhk region, was taken in custody for alleged forbidding one of schoolchild from attending the school because of his unpaid tuition, A-Info news agency reports.{BR} After undergoing interrogation the principal was released from custody on condition not to leave the site.

”What is the state looking at while our citizens are kept hostages? Many Armenians have been facing a deadlock in the Russian-Georgian frontier for more than a month. Isn’t it possible to move those in the gravest situation to an airport nearby and to transport them to Armenia in a special flight?”, “A1+” receives many e-mails like this. {BR} What do Authorities do in...

The weather in Yerevan unexpectedly changed today. It has been raining and the wind has been blowing since morning. According to “ArmHydroMet”, beginning from October 23 the weather in Armenia will become stabilize and the temperature will rise up to + 21. Meteorologist can’t forecast how long the warm weather will continue. {BR}

”The 6th Mashtots Readings” have started today in Oshakan with a prayer “to receive a new cognitive impetus“, Bishop Navasard Kchoyan, leader of Araratian Diocese explained. {BR} Academicians, historians, linguists and archaeologists were present for the 6th reading of Mashtots’s works. They came after having laid flowers on the grave of Mesrop Mashtots. The 1600th...

On Wednesday, Tsayg TV channel broadcasting in Armenian city of Gyumri told our correspondent that two Armenian buses, five trucks and two minibuses are now remained stood near Tskhinvali checkpoint pending permission to cross the border for 14 days.{BR} The buses passengers say as many as 50 people are in both buses, of those 14 are children. Many of passengers, mostly children, are ill. State of...

Armenian Culture Fund staged Wednesday a rally with a march in Yerevan in support of the people driven from their homes because of Northern Avenue ongoing construction, in a bid to prevent Dalma Gardens cutting and in protest of eviction Armenian National Library and the Armenian Culture Fund from their premises.{BR} The Fund’s chair Arevshat Avagyan says the authorities were informed about...

Armenian cities of Grumri, Ashtarak and Goris are included in the CE Regional Program for the Protection of the Cultural and Natural Heritage in the South-Caucasus focused on rehabilitation of architectural and natural heritage in the urban development policies.{BR} In 2003 a program was signed between the CE Directorate of Culture and Cultural and Natural Heritage (DGIV) and Armenian environment...

The authorities of Georgian town of Tskhinvali helped Armenian citizens, who found themselves trapped on the North Ossetia-Georgia border. The thing is that a huge number of vehicles accumulated on the road, as they were barred from crossing the border. The town residents give Armenians shelter, Regnum news agency says.{BR} The agency also reports a group of masked gunmen attacked drivers and beat...

”Rebelling against “Jehovah’s Witnesses” comes to prove love of people towards the Armenian Apostolic Church and does not oppose the sectarians”, Clergyman Zohrab Kostanyan, Vice-Director of “Shoghakat” TV Company said at the round table in Araratian Diocese. {BR} Registration of JW caused his anxiety. “Law is imperfect. There aren’t instruments...

Young people assembled in Araratian Diocese mainly suggested the variants of holding demonstrations and marches against activity of “Jehovah’s Witnesses”. {BR} “Aren’t you afraid that water-cannons will throw water on you, that you will be beaten or electroshock will be used to do away with you”, the Armenian Times” Daily correspondent wondered. “There’s...

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. They made the building, where Communist party’s higher school was functioning in Communist epoch, their home and served it as shelter for years.{BR} Using their legitimate right for privatization of the premises in the event of their careful...

National Library director Hasmik Karapetyan still hopes its premises won’t be given to Unibank.{BR} 30 libraries have been closed in Armenia for recent years. National Library’s personnel fear they can face the same fate.

Yerevan vice-mayor Kamo Areyan said Monday that National Library no longer belongs to the municipality. It handed over to the government.{BR} Yet in 1998, Credit-Yerevan Bank built an additional third floor in the library house and moved the library to that floor. The bank was given the first two floors for that. In 2003 the government got its eye on library premises and declared them its territory. It...

“We want to save people’s lives by reduction of earthquake hazard”, Yerevan State University’s geology professor Garnik Simonyan said speaking at Asian Seismology Commission’s 5th congress opened Monday in Yerevan.{BR} Participation in such events gives the opportunity to get familiar with international specialists and their experience, he said. 200 representatives...

After Yerevan municipality’s routine session on Monday, Ashot Sargssyan, the chief of the municipality public utilities unite, told journalists several dilapidated buildings being in precarious state would be repaired by the end of this year.{BR} Urban Planning Ministry’s figures show there are 90 buildings in Armenian capital that are badly in need to be repaired. Several bridges...

American specialist Joshua Haglund had been teaching in the Foreign Languages University after Valeri Bryusov within language program of USA Secretary of State since last September. On May 17 Haglund was murdered in his apartment in Yerevan. His corpse was found in the courtyard of the building where he appeared while pursuing those having stabbed him. {BR} Joshua’s mother and two brothers...

”There is no danger of starvation in Armenia. There is foodstuffs lack, which is problematic, too”, Armenian Agriculture Deputy Minister Samvel Avetisyan said at a conference. According to him, 119 million people worldwide face the danger of starvation. {BR} Deputy Minister said the Armenian citizens won’t have “a bread problem” this year since unprecedented wheat harvest,...

Under the information of Armenian Justice Ministry, there are about 3500 social organizations registered in Armenia. But only 10-15% of them perform a leading role in the social life of our country. {BR} According to MP Vazgen Khachikyan, one of the reasons why social organizations aren’t widely adopted is that their founders don’t know what a social organization is and what its missions...

On October 10 Deacon Zorik Abeshyan of Saint Grigor Lusavoritch Church of Vladikavkaz disappeared on his way to the church. The law-enforcement bodies carry out investigation to find Deacon Zorik. There is no information about the accident for the time being. {BR} Catholicos of all the Armenians has been informed about the case. He is in continual contact with Bishop Movses Movsisyan, leader of South...

During the 3-month-long tour ”Kilikia” Armenian sailing ship raised the flags of Republic of Armenia and historical Kilikia in numerous states. {BR} The copy of Kilikia’s sailing ship of the 13th century has boated 7 seas, reached Venice harbour and stopped at Armenian Saint Lazarus island.

“Academy of Education Development has carried out 970 programs in Armenia since 1994. 10,000 Armenian specialists have participated in qualification-upgrading programs for the last decade”, the head of the AED Armenian office Anush Yedigaryan said Thursday. In her words, the AED has plans for further implementation of its programs in Armenia.

President of Armenian Culture Fund Arevshat Avagyan staged Thursday an unusual action. A group of artists toured Yerevan’s Dalma Gardens with their easels to depict the gardens on their canvases.{BR} The landscapes will be exhibited later. The artists say they did that to give people a chance to see the gardens at least on their pictures. The thing is that the gardens are now under threat...