Today Parliament deputy Gagik Kostandyan was examined in the First Instance Court of Center-Nork-Marash communities. On the 27-th of October, 1999, when the terrorists rushed in the Parliament Hall, it seemed to him they were Azeri paratroopers and were going to occupy the Parliament building. He saw Prime-Minister Vazgen Sargsyan to be shot down.Kostandyan's testimony surprised many people today....

On 30-th the May, at 3 AM, the son of Armenak Armenakyan, the deputy killed on October the 27-th in the Parliament Hall, 1999, was arrested and taken to the Department of Internal Affairs. According to the reliable sources, the reason of arrest was that the young man had been driving too nearly to the car of Hayk Harutyunyan, the Minister of Internal Affairs.According to the decision by Jora Vardanyan,...

TV and Radio National Commission has never refused “MelTex” LTD’ tender for licensing. Today consumer Ashot Bleyan informed about it the First Instance Court of Central-Nork-Marash communities. According to his words, on April the 2-nd the Court didn’t make such a decision. As Bleyan thinks, after not having received the decision on refusal within 40 days, the tender by “MelTex” LTD is considered to be granted, according to the Armenian...

As “RusBusinessConsulting” agency reports, Russian Khimki town’s court found illegal TV 6 Company broadcasting termination. Court delivered its verdict after consideration of a viewer lawsuit. Court obliged the TV6 founders to resume broadcasting within 3 months. This information can be useful especially for Armenian judges. It is known that a number of the “A1+” viewers submit the similar suit to the Yerevan court.

On 23 of May, 2002, the President of "A1+" TV Company Mesrop Movsesyan addressed the following letter to Mr Ago, Chair of the Monitoring Group of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, during the group's visit to Armenia: "Dear Mr. Ago Our “A1+” TV Company attaches great importance to the fact, that the company deprivation of broadcasting license was discussed among other issues...

Today "A1+" TV Company got the following answer from Mr Pietro Ercole Ago, Chair of the Monitoring Group of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe: "Strabourg, 28 May 2002 Dear Mr Movsessyan Thank you for your communication of 23 May 2002 relating to my statements at the press Conference in Yerevan to which I would like to bring some clarification. The monitoring Group of the...

Today Central Election Commission discussed the issue of handing mandates to the Armenian National Assembly Members, that won by-election in certain constituencies. The Commission Secretary Armenuhi Zohrabyan announced the results of the elections in Shirak region and violations of Election Code.

“Those who were present in the hall of the Parliament House are convinced that there are certain forces and masterminds behind the terrorists”, Armenian Prime Minister Andaranik Margaryan confessed today. The Prime Minister assures that the executive bodies, responsible for country security, is in more favorable state today than on October 27, 1999.

One of the victims of October 27 terrorist action former Finance Minister Levon Barkhudaryan testified today before the court. Barkhudaryan sew very clear how a young man rushed in and fired at Prime Minister Vazgen Sarkisyan and how he fire a shot at Karen Demirchyan’s face. The witness is convinced that the Speaker of the Parliament was already dead by that time. Wounded Vise Speaker Yuri Bakhshyan...

One of the victims of the October 27 terrorist attack in the House of the Parliament MP Aramais Barseghyan says the terrorist action was mastermind by the country’s authorities. “I have right to have such a point of view and nobody can forbid me from expressing it”, the lawmaker said.

Government must not guide the media, American journalist Sherry Richard said today at the meeting with her Armenian colleagues. Richard says she is surprised by the bravery of Armenian journalists, but she is also aware of negative phenomena, such as “ordered” articles written for money. The American journalist, however, didn’t condemn Armenian colleagues for that saying this situation is inevitable over transitional period, as journalists...

On 23 of May, 2002, the President of "A1+" TV Company Mesrop Movsesyan addressed the following letter to Mr Ago, Chair of the Monitoring Group of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, during the group's visit to Armenia: "Dear Mr. Ago Our “A1+” TV Company attaches great importance to the fact, that the company deprivation of broadcasting license was discussed among other issues...

Today "A1+" TV Company got the following answer from Mr Pietro Ercole Ago, Chair of the Monitoring Group of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe: "Strabourg, 28 May 2002 Dear Mr Movsessyan Thank you for your communication of 23 May 2002 relating to my statements at the press Conference in Yerevan to which I would like to bring some clarification. The monitoring Group of the...

Nobody was confered on the title of the "Best Car Inspector of Armenia". They didn't participate in the contest on "the Best Car Inspector" and "the best Car Driver", reasoning they were not ready for.Today on the Republic Square 20 car drivers displayed their skill of driving. As Eduard Hovhannisyan, the chairman of "Achilles", the Union for Car Drivers' Rights Defence, assessed, they drive cars pretty...

Victimes of 27 October terrorist action Emma Khudabashyan and Aramais Barseghyan testified before the court Monday. Both victimes say terrorist attack in the House of the Parliament was deliberate and well-masterminded crime against “Unity” political alliance.

In accordance with Armenian Government’s decision to provide humanitarian aid to Georgia in connection with April 25 devastating earthquake, certain part of the aid has been delivered to Tbilisi. The aid including power-generating devises, industrial goods and medicines is worth $80,000.

Armenian National Assembly is discussing a bill on making amendments in the law on gambling and gambling-houses. In the preliminary version it was stipulated that gambling-houses must be built at 10-km distance from the capital. The proposed version is already mitigated. But more mitigated version was proposed too, according to which “gambling and gambling-houses are permitted outside the administrative borders of towns”. Voting is to be held...

Report of the Parliamentary Interim Commission on October 27 terrorist action case is to be discussed Wednesday. The commission’s last sitting was held Monday. Following section was included in the report on the initiative of Deputy Chairman of the Commission Gagik Kostandyan: “The Commission’s activity could be more effective, if certain circle of authorities and political parties provide...

“Defense of Liberated Territories” social organization addressed the participants of the second Armenia-Diaspora Conference with a statement. “One of the top-priority issues to the organization is the issue of the liberated territories, extending along both sides of Araxs Rivers. The fact that these territories belong to Armenia prompts the Azeri residents to flee nearby Nakhichevan and does it possible to liberate Nakhichevan too. Armenia...

“Armenian Nation-Wide Movement” party issued a statement, in which says “the presidential staff has already involved all the spheres of social and political life of Armenia in lawlessness”. Obvious pressure and forgery during previous elections showed that presidential staff has completely lost the sense of reality and ignores public opinion, the statement says. To restore Constitutional order...

Dear Readers, Our website was mirrored during last weekend. The main domain: http://www.a1plus.am is now hosted on fast server in USA. Armenian mirror now is available here: http://home.a1plus.am. Armenian Freenet's users will still be able to access Armenian mirror. Servers will be synchronized every 30 minutes.

Kilikian Catholicos Aram the First is to attend the Armenia-Diaspora Second Conference and deliver a speech at the opening session of the Conference. Spokesmen of the Kilikian Church all dioceses will participate in the event.

The Chairman of Armenia’s Television and Radio National Commission Grigor Amalyan said in an interview with “Hayots Ashkhar” newspaper: “I should say a strange thing. My wife has a fantastic sense of foreboding. If she says that somebody will dye, he will day”. May be this time his wife’s ominous prediction related to “A1+” TV Company, and it came true according to regulations set by Amalyan himself.

It wasn’t a great surprise for the terrorists to see so many corpses ,- today confirmed deputy Vazgen Khachikyan, the victim of October the 27-th terrorism act. Meanwhile, Khachikyan asserts that during the conversation with defendant Derenik Bejanyan he found out that the only aim of the terrorists was to kill the Prime-Minister . Defendant Nairi Hunanyan as well examined the victim. Hunanyan’s behaviour was aggressive and he asked numerous...