From September 13-14 80 young web-programmers of Armenia will check their knowledge in Yerevan State Polytechnic University. “Lycos Armenia” Organization is holding the first contest of web-programmers. {BR} The 35 best web-programmers will partake in the final on September 18. The winners will be offered jobs in “Lycos Armenia”. The organization functioning since 2002 implements...

Ashot Sargssyan, head of Yerevan Municipality Department on Municipal Economy and Construction, has today informed that Mayor had already instructed those responsible for construction of the municipal economy. {BR} According to Mr. Sargssyan, the instructions mainly regard asphalting in Yerevan streets, wrecking buildings and the reports demanded from private businessmen and organizations implementing...

Dozens of flowers were laid and dozens of candles were lit outside Russian Embassy in Yerevan as tribute paid to those killed in Beslan, North Ossetia. It was the way Armenian youth protested the unprecedented crime. Struggle against terrorism is the main guarantee for our peaceful future, the young people think.{BR} Tomorrow humanity will commemorate victims of the September 11 terror acts that...

On Thursday, on the initiative of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic’s non-governmental organizations, a multi-thousand rally was staged in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabach Republic’s capital, to condemn horrible terrorist act committed recently in Beslan, North Ossetia. {BR} The rally participants sent a message to the people of North Ossetia and Russia. They denounced the act as a crime against...

Armenian parliament’s fall session starts the next week’s Tuesday. Military service bill is included in the session agenda.{BR} A similar bill is to be put also on Georgian parliament floor soon, A-Info news agency reports. 95% of young men from Georgia’s Armenian-dominated regions Samtskhe-Javakhk and Kvemo Kartli haven’t serve in Georgian Army since the Soviet Union’s...

Joint concert of Armenian pop singer Nune Yesayan and Fench singer Patrick Fiori is to take place coming Sunday in Yerevan. {BR} The concert is sponsored by Profance Armeni organization to promote Armenia’s sports development. Our famous overseas compatriots – football player Yuri Jorkaeff and pop singer Patrick Fiori – as well as Nune Yesayan are among members of the organization....

The Court of Appeal adjourned for a week hearing of a suit filed by National Sciences Academy against Armenian Culture Fund. The National Academy demands to evict the Fund from premises belonging to the Academy.{BR} The Academy filed a similar suit against fund in 1998. The court made a decision in favor of the plaintiff but the decision wasn’t fulfilled at the wish of plaintiff himself, the Fund’s attorney Angela Gobosyan says,

Armenian Agriculture Ministry has suggested Government to make changes to the Law on “Foodstuff Safety”. Michael Grigoryan, head of Agricultural Re-cultivation and Foodstuff Safety Department of Agriculture Ministry, says henceforth the local manufacturers will be obliged to choose new regimes and new equipment for foodstuff production. {BR} According to Mr. Grigoryan, if this plank...

Under the official data, in 2004 101 verdicts over the cases on illegal circulation of drugs were reached in Armenia. “The number of murders is impossible to hide because of the corpses whereas drug addiction is a hidden crime”, Mher Khachatryan, Chair of the Appeal Court of Criminal and Military Cases, announced. {BR} In the building of the Appeal Court of Armenia, the United Nations...

Rustavi-2 Georgian TV Company’s correspondents Nana Lezhava and Levan Tetladze, who was arrested September 3 in North Ossetian town of Beslan, released because no criminal charge wasn’t launched against them., the head of the TV Company Erosi Khirtsmarishvili said Wednesday at a news conference in Moscow. {BR} The arrest of journalists sparked widespread reaction in Georgia. The republic...

Every year, on September 8, Yerevan’s St. Virgin church celebrates Virgin Mary’s birthday.{BR} In addition to traditional annual service at the church, this year an exhibition of children’s pictures with Virgin depicted on them was opened in the church yard. Priest Danelyan says, such events are a way of struggle against growing threat of sectarianism.

”In 2005 spring construction of enlargement for Yerevan’s Cascade costing $ 25 million will start”, David Hotson, Architect of Modern Art Museum of Gafesjyan, announced at today’s press conference. {BR} He says under the preliminary plan it is envisaged to build new public rest places, a decorative pool, and parks of statues. Mr. Hotson underlined the fact of erecting a new...

”As a result of 2-year-long study 150 nuthatch territories out of 3000 of Armenia will be selected”, Sargis Margaryan, head of Scientific and Technical Department of Urban Ministry, says. {BR} Through the grant awarded by Japan Government the program on “Study on Nuthatch Disaster Management” is implemented in our country. Nothing is said about the volume of the grant. Japanese...

Armenian Alliance of Public Health had announced for journalist works on anti-tobacco topics. Today the organization has published the contest results. The journalists of “H2” and “Aravot” TV Companies, and “Hayastani Hanrapetutyun”, ”Respublika Armeniya” and “Golos Armenii” newspapers are the winners. {BR} The members of the organizations...

Robert Nazaryan, Chairman of National Bodyguards’ Association of Armenia, appraises as ample the professional level of Armenia’s bodyguards. He assures there are still shortcomings in the system and to reach the international standards it is first necessary to raise the mental capacities of the bodyguards. {BR} During today’s conference in Journalists’ House Mr. Nazaryan introduced...

33 Armenians were among the hostages. Regnum news agency report Koshtoyans’ family of four members were there, Tamara Galustyan, 59, David Atabekyan, 12, Ohannes Simonyan, 11, and Mikhail Mkrtchyan, 9. All the hostages were taken into hospital. It is known that David Atabekyan is already sent home from the hospital.

Philip Noubel, Belgian International Crisis Group /ICG/ senior analyst, speaking at a seminar held Sunday in Tsakhkadzor, Armenia, raised an issue of Armenians living in Javakhk, Georgia.{BR} Armenians there feel themselves as persons of secondary importance, he noted. One of Javakhk journalists present at the seminar told Noubel “when Armenians speak about sovereignty they mean self-governing...

“I don’t believe my ears when hear there is economic progress in Armenia”, Belgian International Crisis Group /ICG/ senior analyst Philip Noubel said at a seminar held Sunday in Tsakhkadzor, Armenia, on prospects of conflicts settlement.{BR} He specified that there is certain progress but for minority of people. Only 3 or 4 percent of the republic’s population live well. ...

Grigor Vardanyan was recently elected a chair of Veratsenund /revival/, Adzharian Armenians’ union.{BR} Among his main objectives he outlined were to figure out the exact number of Armenians living in Adzharia and to make Adzharian-Armenians’ ties with other countries’ Armenian communities closer. Besides, Vardanyan said he will try to prevent Armenians from leaving Adzharia. In...

Today, from early morning, Yerevan’s schoolchildren and representatives of different organisations were coming to Russian embassy in Armenia to pay their floral tributes to those killed in recent terrorist act in Beslan, Northern Osetia.{BR}

Armenian capital’s residents faced today a cold rain, unusual for this season. Weather forecast agency says temperature subsided 6 to 8 degree in Armenia because of penetration of blast of cold air from North-West and is expected to be back to normal tomorrow.{BR} Today, temperature on Yerevan will be +23 to +25 and +13 to +15 at night.

After the 45-minute break announced by the first instance court of Center, Nork-Marash, today's trial of Yerevan Ropeway director Grigor Janyan being prosecuted in connection with ropeway crush continued.{BR} The break was announced because of his lawyer’s absence from the courtroom. However, after the break the lawyer didn’t appear. It became clear in the course of the hearing that...

On Thursday, Gherch Burstain, chair of Jewish Mordekhay Navi community in Armenia, speaking at a seminar on ethnic minorities held in Yerevan, voiced alarm at appearing signes of anti-Jewish sentiments in the republic saying they can become dangerous.{BR} In his opinion one of these sentiments’ reasons is that Armenians are ill-informed about other nations’ history. He said people’s...

First instance court of Center, Nork-Marash started Thursday hearings on a suit filed by those who become victims of the ropeway crush that happened in April, 2004, against the director of the Yerevan Rope-Way Company Grigor Janyan.{BR} During the break, Janyan said he was opposed to the indictment. In his words, the crush occurred at the invisible section of the ropeway, which, as a rule, undergoes...