News from regions Local Council of Alaverdi community during the first sitting of the year confirmed the budget of 2006 in sum 219 mln. AMD.{BR} This sum is Provided for recovery of population’s health and accomplishment of the town. RUSSIAN CENTRE IN ALAVERDI A territory was apportioned to «Caucasus Democratic Centre» for creating Russian Culture Centre in the building of kindergarden after...

News from the regions Because of the strong wind and heavy snowfalls the roads in Sevan have frozen and become impassable. {BR} As a result of low atmospheric pressure the snowstorm will probably continue. The Lake Sevan is partially frozen, and if the wind continues, it will freeze up. According to the head of the Sevan hydro meteorological station M. Gharibyan, at night the temperature in Sevan...

News from regions Fine arts study group in secondary school #2 in Nerqin Getashen was formed in 1999. From then on it took part in number of republic and international contests achieving noticeable success within that period.{BR} The last contest the pupils of the study group took part in was in Chenstokhov, Poland, in the 7-th international annual contest-exhibition “The Child and the Dog”. 57 countries took part in the contest with 22 522...

News from regions Gegharqounik regional department of RA Ministry of Agriculture State Veterinary Inspection against bird flu informs that during last 10 days all the dead birds of the region have been examined. At the same time bird vaccinations are realized against “Newcastle” in all the communities.{BR} The diagnosis showed that the bird plague is mainly connected with intoxication, fire or other injuries, worm illness. The situation is...

News from regions The heavy snow of last days made streets and routes difficult to traverse. It caused problems in Alaverdi town as well.{BR} Corresponding organizations do everything possible to clean the roads and improve the situation at the same time asking drivers to use motor transport only in case of absolute necessity. “Ankyun+3” TV company

News from regions In Janfida community of Armavir region mass slaughter of hens goes on for 4 days already. The dwellers of Janfida think that the only right way to avoid bird flu is to cut up the poultry and eat.{BR} A week ago there were about 10 000 poultries in Janfida community, but their number gradually reduces for the peasants find it safer not to run risk and to use the poultry as a food....

News from the regions There were times when elevators were working in Sevan. Sevan’s city administration took up re-exploitation of elevators, most of which stopped serving their purpose since 90s.{BR} Dwellers use elevators as sheds privatizing and locking them. And the city administration already invites for a job mechanical engineers, serving elevators, STV-1 informs. BIRD FLU DOES NOT...

News from the regions Despite recent abundant snow there were no car accidents in local, republican and inter-state streets which are under the guidance of Tumanyan department of roadworthiness inspection, whereas last year 9 accidents were fixed as a result of which 4 citizens died and 14 were injured. 8 out of 9 accidents happened because of drivers' carelessness, and in one case the reason was...

Spread of bird flu virus in Turkey little by little affects sale of bird meat in Alaverdi.{BR} The matter concerns imported meat in particular, as to the demand to domestic production it hasn’t lessen. Those keeping domestic birds are especially troubled. Many of them started slaughtering their hens to prevent danger, Alaverdi TV company “Ankyun + 3” informs.

Today the deputies of the Justice fraction with Stepan Demirchyan at the head visited Gyumri and Vanadzor. {BR} Seeing the representatives of the opposition, the people expressed their indignation at the violations during the referendum: Both in Gyumri and in Vanadzor the meeting with the people turned into a mini political meeting. By the way, the residents of both cities informed that very few...

The Gyumri «Shirak» airport has been doing with unprecedented amount of work for the last two days. The reason is that the Yerevan «Zvartnots» airport is not able to fulfill its duty because of the thick fog. {BR} For these two days «Shirak» has accepted flights from Moscow, Sochi, Novosibirsk, Anapa, Krasnodar, Rostov, Ashgabat, Dubai, Amsterdam, Paris and other cities serving all in all about 3000 passengers. The authorities of the airport...

A great deal of work for the reconstruction of building has been carried out in Gyumri recently. At present people live in 4 buildings, which are accidents waiting to happen, Tsayg TV company reported.{BR} According to chief of the department of the seismic safety of buildings of the Seismic Service Hrachya Muradyan, 21 buildings in the city are in disrepair, 17 of them can collapse at any moment....

With the abrupt reduction of temperature cases of chickenpox have become more frequent in the schools of Gyumri. If last year there were 320 cases, this year there are more than 350. {BR} According to the Hygiene and anti-epidemic inspection regional center head Karine Tayiryan, in Gyumri cases of measles, mumps and other illnesses have also been recorded.

Today in Gyumri the mandates of the community heads elected in the elections of local governing bodies in the Shirak region were handed to them. {BR} The organizer of the event NA deputy Ashot Aghababyan congratulated the village heads the assured that he will continue to cooperate with them in order to solve the problems of the village communities. Heads of about 60 communities participated in the event, «Tsayg» TV Company reports.

The Gyumri journalist club “Asparez” carries out monitoring among the local Mass Media in order to find out how the issues about the Constitutional amendments are highlighted. {BR} Investigating the informational programs of the Gyumri “Tsayg”, “Shant”, “Shirak” and “Gala”, “Asparez” club mentioned the following: during one week “Tsayg” TV Company “Azdarar” news program referred to the amendments 24 times, 17 of which...

The process of legalization of illegal buildings in Gyumri started two years ago in the Realty Cadastre State Committee Gyumri regional department. But the majority of the buildings failed to be legalized in the mentioned period, and there are still 15 000 illegal building in Gyumri. {BR} According to the head of the Realty Cadastre State Committee Gyumri regional department Avetiq Papoyan, 4000 of...

Like this year, in 2006 too not many buildings will be constructed in Gyumri. Despite the number of homeless people in the city, the Government has decided to solve the problem by means of the House Buying Certificate Program, «Tsayg» TV Company informs. {BR} By the 2006 state budget 7 schools in Shirak region villages will be reconstructed, and 2 sport halls will be constructed in Gyumri. Of all...

The deconstruction of the Gyumri Shirak hotel has been ceased for more than a year. According to the Shirak municipality urban development administration head Albert Margaryan, no money is allotted for that purpose by the 2006 budget, but possibly next year there will be other sources of finance. {BR} The project has already been fulfilled. The investigations of the specialists have shown that the...

The elections held in the Goris region Halidzor community were announced invalid. The reason was that the only candidate for the post of the community head, Samvel Asryan did not receive the necessary amount of votes. On November 13 new elections of community head will take place here. {BR} This time there are 3 candidates for the post – the present head Samvel Asryan, Navasard Mkrtchyan and Smbat Mousayelyan.

According to the preliminary data of the Local Electoral Committee N23 during the elections in Sevan yesterday the only candidate and present mayor of the city Gevorg Malkhasyan has been re-elected. 7 864 electors have voted for him. 8 166 of the 19 357 electors have participated in the elections. {BR} There have been many problems connected with the electoral rolls because of which the citizens had...

The Vanadzor “Lori” TV Company has been deprived of air for the last two days. We tried to find out the reasons from the authorities of the TV Company. But its head Armen Sakhyan cannot be reached, and the executive director Narine Avetisyan is on vacation since yesterday. {BR} Narine Avetisyan explained the fact by the technical problems of the TV Company and said it is not yet clear when they...

Taking into account the fact, that three candidates are going to compete in the coming elections, “Asparez” journalists’ club had planned to organize a TV live debate in copliance with democracy standarts between with participation of the three candidates.{BR} During the long-lasting negotiations it was found out that mayor contenders Vardan Ghoukasyan and Marzpetuni Margaryan accepted and Martin Soukiasyan rejected the offer. Though the...

In Gyumri in the journalism faculty of the Pedagogical Institute after Michael Nalbandyan a new auditorium equipped with all the innovations of the technique has been created. It gives the students the possibility to get not only theoretical, but also practical knowledge. {BR} The auditorium has been created by joint effort of the journalism faculty of the Gyumri Pedagogical Institute, the US Florida...

Yesterday about 18:30 pm a fire broke out in 54 Ghandilyan str., Gyumri. The attic of the house took fire and it spread up immediately.{BR} 3 fire-engines arrived at the place and 16 tons of water were gone on extinguishing the fire. According to Tsayg TV, residents bring different opinions regarding the cause of the fire. Some say the fire has broken out because of rubbing of electric wirings,...