Ara Abrahamyan, the head of the Union of Armenians in Russia is ready to support Heydar Aliev in the Karabakh problem settlement. During the Economic forum being held in New York in February, Ara Abrahamyan informed the president of Azerbayjan that the Karabakh problem settlement is advantegous first of all for Azerbayjan itself. He stated that Aliev paid close attention to his words and promissed...

Today Derenik Bejanyan, the defendant for the 27- th of October terror case went back on his preliminary testimony. He promissed to give true and total testimony in the court hall. The difference was not great, he was just trying to conform his testimony to what the others said. According to the testimony given by him, Bejanyan heard the shots in the Parliament hall sitting in the other defendant...

The Ecology Ministry building was on fire at the March 2 night. As the employees noted it was nothing else but an "informational terror". The Ministry press service office was burnt down because of the fire on the building roof, the information analytic center went to pieces, the inner telephone system and the computer net are wrecked. The electricity supply is cut off on the third floor of the building....

The law bill on the "Mass Media" that was represented to the Eurocouncil experts judgement, was confered on negative reaction. Listening to the Armenian journalists' and Mass Media heads' remarks, looking through the Mass Media joint statement, the experts noted that the law main points don't meet the Eurocouncil requirements. The question what was the reason for the Eurocouncil to demand a new law...

The World bank experts have elaborated the heating supply strategy for 4 Armenian cities. The strategy execution depends on the Government that must represent the credit project to the bank. The strategy's aim is to restruct the central heating system. The main obstacles in the system develpoment way are the abandoned apartments because system doesn't imply cutting off the heating of the separate flats.

Today many political and economical figures celebrated the national philanthropist and an oil-producer Alexandr Mantashov's 160th anniversary in one of the hotels of Yerevan.

The Armenian National party is on the point of examining the agriculture problems. The seminar on "The agriculture development prospects' and villages' repopulation matters " was carried out on the initiative of the party. The scientists-participants of the seminar think that there are three decisive steps to be taken to develop Armenian agriculture i.e. analysing the situation, including the business...

Today the Aviation Union members made a statement. The Aviation employees think that it would be much better if Hovhannes Eritsyan, the head of the Civic Aviation Administration, was worried about the Armenian Aviation condition instead of getting into court scrapes. The summs set aside for the Aviation are spent for paying some customs and the employees haven't been paid for their salaries for two...

According to Ecology Ministry data, the Yerevan urban-industrial environment is polluted 90 and exhausts decreased thanks to that. The action organizers are sure that annual exhausts will be reduced for 15 tons if the liquid is in use even by 100 cars. The creator of liquid is Hovhannes Hovhannisyan, the citizen of the Russian Federation. The "Wonder" liquid is produced only in Armenia.

A few months ago student resque teams were formed at all universities in Armenia. Training courses are carried out by the employees of Emergency Department. Yerevan State University lecturers attend the courses as well. The resque machines' capabilities are shown during the training. The Emergency Department employees teach the traynees the way to evacuate people from houses in case of disaster and to do artificial respiration.

Today the Center-Nork-Marash communities' Office of Public Prosecutor have brought an accusation against Nikol Pashinyan, the editor-in-chief of "Haykakan Jhamanak"daily. Pashinyan is accused by the second part of the 132nd article of Criminal Code - i.e. he had humilated and defamed the Aviation committee head Hovhannes Eritsyan. The Court considered sufficient for the accusation Nikol Pashinyan's...

Today during the 27th October case trial barrister Oleg Yunoshev solicited for the well-known record research conclusion given by the Russian specialist Galyashina to be attached to the case documents. He also entered a caveat Galyashina to be accepted as an expert. The Court granted a petition partly - the conclusion was attached to case documents.

Today the "ArmenTel" JV Armenian employees have stopped working for an hour. The reason was that two days ago one of the Greek directors of the company had offended the security service Armenian employee, then made an attempt to fire him. The venture trade union had invited the former employees to join the protest action as well as probable candidates for being fired. The "ArmenTel" executive director...

The "Civic Sociaty Union" and the "Imprisoned and Arrested' Rights Protection" social organization representatives visited all the investigatory insulators of Armenia, talked to the investigators and the arrested. Only 4 of the 22 questioned investigators are not against the meetings. The Parliament has already confirmed the law on "Maintenance of the arrested and imprisoned people". After the law...

There are 1 bln. 100 mln. smokers all over the globe. Every 8 seconds one man dies from illness caused by smoking. Census data shows that over 60 to 451.jpg%Specialists attach a great impoptance to the law on control over smoking, which is already worked out and submitted to the proper commission of Armenia's National Assembly for consideration. It should be mentioned that the majority of MPs are...

The National Service for the Seismic Protection and the Extremal situation administration have discussed the law draft on "The seismic protection". The law draft author is the head of the National seismic service Sergey Balasanyan. The discussion participants were indignant at the fact that Mr Balasanyan hadn't taken into consideration the experts and scientists' opinions. He either didn't acted...

On the 14 th of March the committee headed by Paruyr Hayrikyan will admit the annual report on the human rights in 2001. The fact that the Artsakh people don't take part in the elections carried out in the Republic of Armenia can hardly be noted as a human rights' infringement. Paruyr Hayrikyan reminds that the human rights committee admits only the direct infringements. During the next session...

"I'm not satisfied with the criminal case proceeded against the editor-in-chief of "Haykakan Jhamanak" daily",- said the head of Civil aviation administration Hovhannes Eritsyan. He insists on being offended directly in the feature. Mr Eritsyan refutes the information printed in the daily that his inferiors and relatives are bribe-takers.

The new head of "Liberation war" union Armen Mazmanyan abdicated the duties to rule the party. "I want to prove thus that there is no struggle for posts in the union",- he said. Nine members of the organization blame the head that is not resigned yet for the situation in the union. The veterans accuse their partner in spending illegally the 5 mln drams set aside for the war participants' support...

A family that fled Sumgait in 1988 and a historian are the only ones that recalled today the tragic events of Sumgait when 32 Armenians were killed, many Armenians were heavily injured. If the Sumgait got the right appreciation in time, then no further atrocities would be comitted, says Hrayr Ulubabyan, the head of former group engaged in protection of rights of Armenians from Sumgait. For several...

There are many contradictions in the preliminary and court investigations' testimony given by Edik Grigoryan- the defendant of the 27 th October case. But he refused to comment upon them today. He either didn't answer the prosecotor's questions or repeated the court investigations testimony. Though the questions remained unanswered the prosecutor kept on cross-examinating using citations from...

According to the Communication Scienctific research institution data "Armentel'' and the Ministry of Communication and Transport place obstacles in the way of development in the information technologies field.This proclaimation was made during the supporting session on information technology development. The Ministry has no project of progress in communication field till and this gives "Armentel''...

The director of one of "ARDSHINBANK"'s Brunch Offices in Yerevan left for unknown place, yesterday, taking with him the cash money and loaned jewellery which were present at that time in the bank. The amount of money and captured gem is not mentioned, however, some rumours concerning a certain amount of from $100000 to $300000 are spread. We would like to notify that "ARDSHINBANK"'s key stakeholder...

Today the court session on crime suit against 4 employees of Military Police failed for the 5th time. The court has not identified the defendents yet. The Military police employees are accused in having extorted testimony and jeering at the servicemen Misha Harutyunyan and Erjanik Sargsyan in the course of the preliminary investigation.