The residents of Sisakyan, 16 of Ajapnyak Commune have today gathered at Yerevan Municipality. According to them, the building is wrecking and may collapse anytime. {BR} They say that Government allots little sums to buy new apartments, so they held the protest action. Vice-Mayor Kamo Areyan received the protestors. He told that there is an approved cadastre sum and the residents are to be satisfied...

Yerevan State University students haven’t attended the lectures since last Tuesday, when they came up with a statement protesting Armenian government’s bill on military service.{BR} Under the bill, adjournment given to students while they are studying in universities is repealed. Protesters gathered today outside the university with banners. Other universities’ students joined...

Armenian capital’s municipality intends to set control over construction works being carried out in Yerevan to make construction companies to follow projects strictly, Municipality official Samvel Danielyan said Monday. {BR} Under the municipality’s urban development program, small shops will be modernized and garages built under ground to make the city appearance more beautiful.

The forum of the Armenian intelligentsia has re-corroborated its homeland-devoted stance over Karabakhi problem in connection with the 16th anniversary of Karabakhi Movement. {BR} The formula says that the Armenian people must reconfirm their unity and get rid of those aspiring to power. The Armenian intellectuals find that the illegitimate authorities gnaw the nation and are ready to perform the...

”If the amendments to the Law on “Military Service” are approved, only the girls in our company will be able to be retrained”, Hovik Musaelyan, Director of the Armenian branch of “Leda Design” American Company, has today announced at Government sitting. {BR} He informed that every year the 3rd and 4th year students of Polytechnic University of Armenia attend the...

Forum of the intellectuals has today represented its appraisals on the situation in science and education sphere. {BR} Forum announced that completely supports anxiety of the students regarding “the senseless and destructive policy of our Authorities towards science and education“. ”These processes must be hampered and the guilty ones must be punished”, forum announced calling...

Council on Support for Development of Information Technologies has today introduced the report of 2003’ activity in Government. {BR} Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan informed that industry of technologies of information communication in Armenia makes annual revenue of $ 50 million. Garegin Chugaszyan, Chair of “Fund of Information Technologies” organization, thinks that the main...

Armenia’s Appeal Court has today considered the complaints introduced by the advocates of Felix Arustamyan, Gegham Shahbazyan, John Harutyunyan and Armen Sargssyan, the defendants of Tigran Naghdalyan’s murder case. {BR} But before starting consideration Zaruhi Postanjyan, the advocate of Felix Arustamyan sentenced to 12 years in prison, demurred the Court reasoning that the son of Judge...

8 social organizations have today announced for establishing a Union of the NGOs “Against Corruption”. {BR} Those organizations are “Achilles” Centre for Protection of Drivers’ Rights, “Asklepi” Centre for Health Care, social organizations “Mother of a Soldier”, “Anti-Shade”, “Femida”, “Tradesmen of Armenia”,...

”Don’t decapitate our Science!”, “State is being split in the Head”, “White Genocide begins with the Genocide of Science”, with the above placards students of Yerevan State University have today continued the protest action since yesterday. {BR} They demand Parliament not to approve the amendments to the Law on “Military Service”, under which the...

Our correspondent has recently seen Hovhanness Harutyunyan, /Aper nicknamed/, who was convicted for Tigran Naghdalyan’s murder standing near the Republican Hospital. {BR} He was without handcuffs and control. He didn’t even fear for being noticed. But the most noteworthy was that he had come to hospital by the official car of one of Deputy Ministers for National Security. In fact,...

On Thursday, Yerevan mayor Yervand Zakaryan told reporters the government upheld the 2004 -2007 program on Armenian capital’s social and economic development.{BR} This is a comprehensive program: it includes all spheres such as architecture, trade, transport, communication and environment, he said.

Detention Facilities official Samvel Hovhannissyan said Thursday Armenian Justice Ministry had instituted regulations concerning public control over detention facilities.{BR} Observation council of at least seven organizations is to be set up. The council is to be empowered to enter penitentiaries without any warning. “Unfortunately, since last year July only five organizations have appealed...

Armenian government has allocated 5 million drams to Armenian famous writer Eghishe Charents’ daughter Arpenik Charents for improving her living conditions.

On February 22 Armenian Apostolic Church celebrates Pancake Day. Pancake week is a joyful goodbye to winter crowned by an anticipation of spring. This holiday is celebrated by people also in Russia and European countries. On the next day the Lent begins.

It was possible to obtain any information from the non-official sources of the Military Office of Prosecutor, which conducted primary inquest over the separated part of October 27.{BR} Beginning from the moment the criminal case was sent from Military Office of Prosecutor under the jurisdiction of General Office of Prosecutor, it turned to be impossible to get any information. The Demirchyan’s...

”A person passing through 3 criminal cases leaves Armenia without any obstacle: this is possible only by support and awareness of Authorities”, the Demirchyan’s advocate Ashot Sargssyan announced at the conference over the vanishing fact of Nairi Badalyan, October 27 case witness and ex-defendant. {BR} He informed that he had introduced 3 solicitations to the preliminary inquest...

”White Genocide against science and people”, the members of “For Science Development” initiating group described the Government bill on “Military Service” introduced to Parliament this way. {BR} The main anxiety of the initiating group’ members regards one of the bill clauses under which the IHE students will be granted to the right for only one deferment....

Lent begins from February 23. It lasts for 48 days, from Shrove-tide to Revival /Easter/. This year Easter will be celebrated on April 11. {BR} During Lent only vegetable foodstuffs are used. People also renounce some bad habits, verbosity, lie, ribaldry and other sins. 40 days of the Lent symbolize the 40 days when Jesus passed in a desert, praying, without food and water. A week follows the...

October 27 case witness, ex-defendant Nairi Badalyan left for USA on October 18, 2003. {BR} The Demirchyans’ advocate Ashot Sargssyan informed this during the press conference today. By the way, the witness had no right to be absent from the place of residence.

Electric Power Network Company’s director Evgeni Gladuncik said Tuesday the company has no intention to raise consumer prices, as people hardly pay existing costs.{BR} He said 95% of planned amount was levied in 2003 and losses sustained by the company made 9%.

Students of Yerevan State University came up with a statement Tuesday protesting Armenian government’s bill on military service. Under the bill, adjournment given to students while they are studying in universities is repealed.{BR} The students are convinced the bill-proposed changes will prevent students from obtaining qualification and lay grounds for corruption. After so long break in...

Six months ago, A1+ TV Company filed a suit to the Economic Court against Radio and Television National Commission demanding the commission to present justifications for its decision, according to which A1+ had been denied broadcasting license.{BR} However, no justifications have been presented by the commission so far. It is obvious, that the commission has no intention to do that in the near future...

”Our task is to support journalists to get occupied with the problems of various minorities and to provide diverse information”, Militsa Peschich, head of London’ Media Diversity Institute, said during the 3-day-long seminar in “Congress” Hotel. {BR} Guide entitled ”Covering Diversity: How to Reach Notable Results?” is about highlighting the problems of...