The case against Hovik Arsenyan, the attorney of the suspect in Tigran Naghdalyan murder trial Armen Sargssyan, was dismissed.{BR} Hovik Arsenyan has lost the court favour yet at the beginning stage of the hearings, when he was accused of communicating with co-defendant Gegham Shahbazyan right in the courtroom and putting pressure on the latter in an attempt to make him refrain from any statements...

The ones who destroyed the Armenian tombstones in Krasnodar were found. A group of 8 minors committed it. The eldest is 16 and the youngest is 13. {BR} The parents of the minor barbarians will compensate the financial damage and will reconstruct the desecrated graves. A criminal case on hooliganism was instituted over the fact.

On March 8 NKR President Arkadi Ghukasyan received the Armenian delegation, headed by Education and Science Minister Sergo Eritsyan. {BR} During the meeting Sergo Eritsyan said the aim of his visit was to become aware of the problems in the education sphere of NKR. He voiced willingness on behalf of his Ministry to support further development of education in Artsakh. The meeting participants have...

According to data by www.mediadialogue.org, on March 9, 2004 4 public organizations of Armenia – Yerevan Press Club, Helsinki Committee of Armenia, Civil Society Institute and Caucasian Center of Peace Initiatives – disseminated a joint statement on the assassination of Armenian officer Gurgen Margarian by his Azerbaijani colleague in Budapest. {BR} ”We, similarly to all our compatriots,...

Considering the application of presidential candidate Stepan Demirchyan on declaring invalid the elections, on April 16, 2003 Constitutional Court decided to leave unchanged CEC decision, simultaneously suggesting Parliament and Armenian President to hold a Trust Referendum within a year. {BR} The above decision of CC became a subject of discussions. ”All the opponent stances saying CC exceeded...

Robert Kocharyan has recently ignored the application by Jirayr Sefilyan on citizenship. Sefilyan was the Commander of Shushi special battalion during Artsakh War. {BR} Later he was the Commander of NKR Defense Army brigade. He is a knight of “Battle Cross” Order. During the recent years Sefilyan coordinates “Protection of Liberated Territories” social initiative. Intelligentsia...

In 2003 an agreement between Armenian Town Planning Ministry and European Union was signed on implementing an experimental management project of hard domestic waste in the settlements of Ararat and Vayotc Dzor Districts. {BR} As the employee of Town Planning Ministry informed, 1.3-1.5 million cubic meters of solid domestic waste are annually accumulated in Armenia and 20% of them in the rural areas....

Armenian Government members have today left for Armavir District. Ministers for Agriculture, Health Care, Town Planning, Territorial Management and Coordinating Activity of Infrastructures and Chairs of State Committees of Water Economy and Real Estate Cadastre are in the delegation. {BR} They will meet the residents of Echmiadzin, Metcamor and Armavir cities. On March 10 as well visit of Government...

Flood because of the snow melting on March 6 destroyed a part of the motor road through Akhalqalaq-Akhaltckha canyon. No other road connecting Akhalqalaq to Akhaltckha is functioning now. {BR} According to “A-Info”, Akhalqalaq and Ninotsminda districts are deprived of land communication with the district center and the state in general. Despite the bad weather, the district bodies promised...

Parliament Speaker Arthur Baghdasaryan met Academicians of National Academy of Sciences at their request. It turned that besides the main problems academicians had one more demand to Speaker. {BR} Biochemistry Research Institute Director Konstantin Gharagyozyan spoke on behalf of many academicians: ”Such a Minister /Education and Science Minister Sergo Eritsyan/ is disgraceful for our science....

The justice initiative of Open Society Institute addressed a letter to Armenian PM, Parliament Speaker, Justice Minister, voicing concern about the amendments suggested to the Law on “Information Freedom”. The amendments were approved on February 12, 2004 by Government. {BR} According to the letter authors, instead of passing the necessary order for putting the Law on “Information...

Press National Club has today appeared with a statement: ”Yesterday, on March 4 Government officially ratified order for accreditation of journalists in state departments finally disclosing fear and even horror of this regime for free speech. {BR} Restricting the right for obtaining and spreading information under the conditions of bellicose propaganda against Armenia and Artsakh by Azerbaijan,...

Session convened Thursday by Armenian President Robert Kocharyan was focused on distribution of apartments built in quake-stricken Armenian town of Gyumri with assistance of Lincy Fund. Report of the commission engaged in the process was heard at the session.{BR} Robert Kocharyan said distribution of apartments had been under intense scrutiny over three months and the commission found out many omissions....

As many as five thousand Armenian citizens of call-up age haven’t served in army because of their absence from the republic. Many of them can’t return to the republic despite their desire because they are announced wanted.{BR} This issue was discussed today at the government session held Thursday. ...

Armenia’s interior debt is anticipated to reach I billon 100 million USD by the end of 2004, says Grigor Gonjeyan, the head of United Labor Party parliamentary fraction. In his opinion, it isn’t so easy to lavish compensation of 82 million dollars to Savings Bank depositors.{BR} He doesn’t share the opinion that in case of indexation the most of the depositors would be insulted...

On Thursday, President of Businessmen Union Arsen Ghazaryan, speaking at Business Forum on Public – Private Partnership held in Yerevan, said unemployment rate in Armenia’s provinces is higher than that in the center. In his words, new jobs creation is every businessman’s not the government’s problem.{BR} “The more businesses will prosper the more jobs will be created”, he concluded.

A cargo plane crashed just in a few minutes after his take-off from Baku airport. Five of the seven members of the crew were killed in the crash. No details are reported.{BR}

Ivanovo Mayor made a decision to allot an area of 70 square meters to the Armenian Commune. Saint Johannes Church will be built there. {BR} It will be the copy of the Armenian Church in Krasnoyarsk.

Hearing of Government claim against “ArmenTel” started and stopped in Economic Court. {BR} The representative of the respondent solicited to break the trial since “ArmenTel” Executive Director Georgios Vasilakis is not in Yerevan. Vasilakis will return to Armenia on March 12. The next trial will take place on March 18, at 3:00 PM.

”Culture Ministry didn’t take part in organization and implementation of last winter “Baze”, Youth and Culture Deputy Minister Lilit Asatryan announced at the press conference. {BR} Ministry has been “as a guest” at “Baze” entertainments. ”We didn’t notice anything negative during our visits”, Lilit Asatryan says. She called “Baze”...

Armenian Culture Ministry has no stance over the withdrawn bill on “Military Service”. {BR} ”Our position was neutral and non-orientated”, Lilit Asatryan, Culture and Youth Deputy Minister says. Mrs Asatryan in Ministry is occupied with coordinating the works carried out with the youth. She said when the bill became the subject for public discussion she was in Strasburg...

Economic Court was to hear “A1+” TV Company claim against TV and Radio National Committee. The session didn’t take place since Judge Robert Sargssyan presided over another session at the same time. {BR} It is to remind that “Meltex” LTD appealed to Court 7 months ago demanding TV and Radio Committee to base in written why it had refused the license to “A1+”...

Programs on “Intensification of Fighting against Locusts”, “Fighting against Rodents in Armenia”, “Stable Development of Mountainous Districts” were signed between Armenian Agriculture Minister David Loqyan and UNO’s Food and Agriculture Organization /FAO/ representative Maria Katleshkova. {BR} The programs will be implemented at the level of districts and...

This night, earthquake with a magnitude of 3,8 on the Richter scale destroyed a house in Turkey’s village of Jelihan leaving six people dead.{BR}