As we were informed by Municipality, a tender will be announced for a post of the head on transport department of Municipality one of these days. That post has been vacant for a month. {BR} Ex-head of Transport Department of Yerevan Municipality Areg Barseghyan was appointment Chair of Metro Council.

”Floods caused damage of 350 million drams in Yerevan. More than 1 milliard drams are necessary for improvement of Hrazdan Canyon”, Vice-Mayor Vano Vardanyan said at a press conference. {BR} He stated that electricity supply had been ceased for 46 times the previous week in Yerevan. 8 cases of water wreck and 15 of fire were registered last week. According to Vardanyan, on April 1,...

Armenia is now building its national policy, the head of Ethnic Minorities and Religion Affairs Department Hranush Kharatyan said Friday at routine meeting held by the republic government.{BR} Ethnic minorities’ representatives as well as international and Armenian organizations’ members were present at the meeting. Kharatyan said the newly created department is still not sure whether...

The board of Armenian General Benevolent Union has decided to close Melgonean education center in Cyprus in June of 2005, explaining its decision by saying the center’s mission aim is not justified in today’s Armenia.{BR} The union of the center’s graduates addressed all Armenians with a call to bar the AGBU from putting its decision into reality. Although the AGBU denies financial...

The public is aware that a march and a rally will take place on April 2, the 2nd anniversary of “A1+” TV Company ceasing from broadcasting area. {BR} Yerevan Mayor was informed about the measures but he decided not to sanction the march and to allow the rally at the territory near Matenadaran and not on the Liberty Square. In response to Mayor’s “permission” the initiating...

Justice Ministry has today initiated an open discussion the new Labor Code. {BR} ”Armenian Labor Code was elaborated in 1972. It was amended in 1996 and doesn’t correspond to the present life. A bill on labor code was worked. It is now discussed in Parliament. There were many suggestions over it. It is important to cause the public to be informed about it”, Justice Deputy Minister...

To discuss the details of the attitude of Shirak District and Gyumri social activists to “A1+” TV Company rally to be held on April 2 and participation in it “Asparez” Club of Journalists initiates an open discussion on March 29 {BR}inviting Shirak District journalists, the representatives of TV Companies, Radio Stations, newspapers, social organizations, parties, other social...

At 4:00 AM Police employees took Smbat Eghiazaryan, secretary of Kotayk District branch of People’s Party of Armenia, from his house to police department. {BR} It is to remind that after the rally in Byureghavan policemen arrested one of PPA activists, who was the executive for the technical equipment and was occupied with propagandizing the meeting. Byureghavan is in Kotayk District. And today...

2 years ago, on April 2, 2002, TV and Radio National Committee deprived “A1+” TV Company of the broadcasting license. {BR} During the 2 past years “A1+” partook in 8 tenders for frequency ranges and disputed against TV and Radio National Committee decisions in all the Court instances. Both tenders and Court decisions were made by breaking laws, which aimed at blocking “A1+”...

Commission on Culture, Education and Social affairs of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation’s Parliamentary Assembly started Wednesday its 22nd session presided by Dumitru Buzatu, the Vice-Chair of the Commission and the head of Romanian delegation.{BR} Parliamentary delegations from Turkey, Moldova, Bulgaria, Albania, Ukraine, Russia and Georgia arrived in Yerevan to attend the session. Azeri...

Yerevan’s traffic wardens decided today to remind pedestrians that their obligations to watch how they are crossing roads. Wardens barred people from crossing the roads where they wanted and tried to send them in pedestrian subway. But few complied with the demand.

Economy Minister Vardan Khachatryan and World Bank’s Representative in Armenia Roger Robinson signed a credit program of 19 million USD focused on enhancing education in Armenia in correspondence with international standards.{BR} Among the strategies outlined in the program are enhancing education and knowledge assessment systems, applying information technologies in schools and upgrading teachers’ skill.

Yerkramas newspaper reports a group of 10 to 30 Russian schoolchildren have beaten 5 Armenians boys in Baltay. Baltay’s Prosecutor Office said the fight has broken out from the conflict between two boys – David Harutyunyan and Andrey Mozlov, son of Baltay region’s governor, and David punched first. The conflicting sides told polar-opposite stories. Armenians residing there fear to send their children to school.

Residents of Georgian Borjomi province’s Armenians-dominated village of Tabatskuri have reached a real deadlock in their disputes over compensation they had to be given for using their strops of land for Baku-Tbilisi-Jeyhan oil pipeline construction.{BR} The village is the only spot in the province given no compensation. The villagers explain that unjust distribution of plots to families led...

There are no moral damage compensation institutions in our country, said lawyer Melanya Arustamyan at a news conference held Wednesday in the Dashnaktsutyun Party Yerevan office.{BR She spoke on a common motion filed by 100 people who suffered damage from polluted drinking water and demanded 15 thousand 812 drams as compensation for each plaintiff. The court decided to give a 4,000 - dram compensation...

Armenian Economic Court has today rejected “Meltex” LTD claim against inactivity of TV and Radio National Committee. {BR}It is to remind that “A1+” demanded to allow the bases that TV and Radio National Committee didn’t grant the TV Company the broadcasting license. It took Judge Robert Sargssyan only 15 minutes to make such a decision. The whole trial lasted for 1,5...

Which are the privileges of the TV Companies that won at TV and Radio National Committee’ tenders and now broadcast? Which are the shortcomings of “A1+” that TV and Radio National Committee has deprived it of the chance to return to broadcasting area for 7 times and didn’t allow the reasons for license refusal?{BR} ”Meltex” LTD representatives have been applying...

Justice Minister David Harutyunyan is intended to revise the order for election and nomination of judges, which will enable to make the procedure more transparent and to avoid more shortcomings. {BR} Independence of judges is prior, too. Minister noticed though everything possible is done to provide independence of judges, the results are not obvious. David Harutyunyan also found that judges sometimes...

We were told by the sources near the Authorities that during the meeting with Police employees of Armenia President Robert Kocharyan instructed them to wear uniforms, irrespective of rank or post. {BR} The aim of this instruction is creating imitation of vigilance and control to frighten people.

Today, Bruce Khlebnikov-Hatsagortsyan, 14, beat a record by pulling bus with his long hair for three meters.{BR} The show was staged by our compatriot Levon Manukyan who is a member of Russian State Duma. When Bruce was six years old, he pulled a car with his teeth, the boy’s mother Nelli Khlebnukova says. “I realized that was God’s gift. God is always with him, but every time...

Parents’ awareness program worked out by a group created by on UNISEF initiative is now being put into reality in Armenia’s province of Gegharkunik. The project’s aim is to provide the parents whose children don’t attend kindergartens.{BR} Education Ministry official Robert Stepanyan says 80 percent of the republic children don’t get preschool education. One of causes...

In Armenia, weather forecast system is the most low-payed among others, the head of Armenian Weather Forecast State Agency Levon Vardanyan said at Monday’s news conference.{BR} He said soared temperature caused recent flood in Armenia’s provinces and the agency warned about likely disaster. In his opinion, Armenian emergency workers operated perfectly though they run into difficulties...

Weather Forecast Agency says temperature in Yerevan is expected to leap up to 25 degrees Celsius on March 26 to 29. The agency says the heat will be unprecedented for this season in Armenia.{BR}

Yerevan municipality plans a large scale clean this and the next weekends in Yerevan, the Armenian capital’s Vice-Mayor said Monday at a news conference. In his words, the city is covered with dust and in need to be cleaned.{BR} He urged all Yerevan’s residents to participate in the event.