After the capital the computer tomographic equipment has for the first time been installed in Gyumri. It gives the possibility to reveal the tumors early. If many people had to come to Yerevan because of the absence of the equipment, now there will be no such problems. {BR} The computer tomographic equipment brought to Gyumri in 2004 October by the support of the French regional council was put into...

Downpour on April 24 caused damages in the Aragatsotn region of Armenia. A part of the earth dam of the Gekhadir reservoir collapsed, crops in the communities of Lusagyugh, Aragats, Gnaberd and Geghadir as well as some dwelling houses were flooded. Drinking water pipe was damaged in the community of Lusagyugh.{BR} The level of River Arpa has risen flooding the fields adjacent to Vayots Dzor. A governmental...

At present goes on the quest of the dead bodies of the two residents of the Ararat region village Darakert who fell into the river Hrazdan yesterday. According to the Emergency Administration, the two-day quest has so far resulted fruitless. 10-year-old Hayk Hovhannisyan and 11-year0old Garnik Grigoryan fell into the river on April 24, at about 2 p.m. near the village Dashtavan of Ararat region. {BR}

3 residents of the city of Gyumri have been charged with trafficking of drugs. By the way, the three of them are women. {BR} Everything started in September 2004 when Susanna Manoukyan bought from a Georgian named Malkhas 17 grams of heroin for 425 thousand drams. She kept the «purchase» in her house and sold it part by part to different people. By the request of the same Susanna Manoukyan Arevhat...

In the Shirak, Tavoush, Vayots Dzor and Syunik regions there is a problem with irrigation water and water supplying organizations. In particular, in the Shirak region only 15% of the housekeeping gets necessary irrigation water. The process of paying for the water is not regulated. The problem of the water supplying organizations is also serious. There are no such organizations, for example, in the...

On April 1 at about 3:30 a.m. the «Niva» brand car of Samvel Alexanyan, chief editor of the newspaper «Syunats Yerkir» was burnt in the yard of his house in Goris. The policemen and the firefighters who arrived at the place of incident were not able to save the car. {BR} The press club «Asparez» of Gyumri considers this the following expression of the terrorist act of the Syunik region governor...

1450 tons of fertilizers have been allotted to the Shirak region by the state Government, 700 tons more is anticipated. But the demand in the region is much higher. According to Raffi Vardzelyan, chief expert of the village administration, 15-20 thousand tons are needed. {BR} If years ago the fertilizers were imported from Azerbaijan, now they can be imported from the European countries only, which...

A snowstorm caused an emergency situation in the Shirak region of Armenia, Tsayg TV company reports. {BR} Because of the continuing snowstorm it is impossible to clear the roads, head of the transport and road building department of the Shirak region Marzpetuni Margaryan said.

According to the TV company “Tsayg”, on March 17 there have been two fires at the same time in the Shirak region. At 5:05 p.m. the Gyumri fire-fighting point has received information about a fire in the village Azatan. One car has left for the place of incident from the Akhouryan fire fighting point. Because of the problems with the motor a second car has left for the same place. The victim was...

Today Robert Kocharyan has had an official meeting with Albert Heroyan, Armavir region governor. They have spoken about the process of using the money received from the auction of the lands for the solution of problems important for the region. {BR} The governor has informed that the 1 billion 200 million drams are invested into the processes of gasification, building of schools, and the reconstruction...

On March 16 at 1:40 a.m. the Artik ambulance has taken the 5 members of the family of Zournachyans and their guest Tigran Qeshishyan from Vanadzor to hospital with the diagnosis of food intoxication. {BR} The patients have informed that the previous evening they had eaten tinned egg-plants and sausages. They have been given the necessary medical treatment. The treating doctor has told our colleagues from the TV company “Tsayg” that by 10 a.m....

In the Shirak region all the water reservoirs are under control and their contents are checked every day. These works are done by the Emergency Prevention Administration. Thus the region is getting ready for the spring floods. {BR} In the regions the results of the investigation of the Emergency Prevention Administration have already been collected. According to our colleagues from the TV company «Tsayg»,...

Because of the weather conditions in Shirak region an emergency situation has been created. Because of the strong snowstorm the Ashotsk area has become impassable since morning, particularly the Tsoghamarg-Karmravan part. {BR} According to the Emergency Administration of Shirak region at 7:30 p.m. because of heavy snowfall and snowstorm several roads to Gyumri are impassable, particularly – Gyumri-Ashotsk,...

According to the Emergency Administration of Shirak region yesterday there was a fire in the Russian 102nd military base. The firefighter group has managed to isolate the fire. It has occupied about 160 sq km. {BR} The office of one of the officials has been burnt wholly. According to our colleagues from the TV company «Tsayg» there have been not victims or injuries. The reasons of the fire are being clarified.

During the recent four days the Norwegian district of Gyumri and the Aygabats Street adjacent to it have not been supplied with electricity because of the collapsed electricity transmission post. The concrete post fell down on one of the houses in the district. {BR} According to the specialists the incident was caused by the poor construction works. Just for this reason ten more posts was fall. In...

Today within the frames of the measures taken for the restoration of the disaster area, the Armenian government has approved the main town-plan of Gyumri. {BR} Among the measures the decree also records of finishing the building of a kindergarten situated in the Ani region of the town.

The newly formed “Shirak water system” and “Lory water system” companies applied to the Committee Regulating Social services to make water more expensive in the regions of Shirak and Lory. By the decision of the Committee starting from April 1 in the mentioned regions water will cost 121.17 drams instead of the previous 100. {BR} It is noteworthy that it was these two companies...

On February 24 night a unidentified dead body of a man was found in Gyumri. The body was conveyed to Samariter hospital at about 4.20 a.m. According to the preliminary data, the man died from cold and also had craniocerebral trauma.{BR} According to the people who called the ambulance they are not aware of the details and time when the incident happened. Director of Samariter hospital Rafael Khachatryan...

Since 2000 the wages of the workers of the 23 kindergarten-colleges working under the control of the Gyoumry municipality have been raised for three times. {BR} This year too the wages of the workers have been raised by 54%, and according to Hovhannes Karapetyan, Head of the educational department of the Municipality, since January 560 workers will get 20 000 drams instead of the previous 13 000. According...

During the recent 15 years drainage pipes in the Shirak marz (region) of Armenia have not been cleaned. As result lots of inhabited localities suffer from downpours. However no measures have been undertaken so far. Some repair works were conducted in a number of villages in the Artik region only, Tsayg TV company reports.{BR} The communities do not possess enough funds to conduct works of the kind,...

Two years ago the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland signed an agreement with the Armenian Government expressing their readiness to give a grant of 1 million pounds to each region of our country. {BR} For the last two years the workers of the Local governing Ministry have been investigating the problems of the regions. Armen Keshishyan, head of the local governing program, said today...

“By the wish of the British party the millions will first pass to the national budget and then go to the community budget”, said Hovik Abrahamyan and added that the Armenian Government will sign a memorandum with the British Ministry of Development, promising to pass the grant to the towns or villages. {BR} To the question if they did not trust us and that’s why offered to sign a...

More than 200 families are shelterless in the Akhouryan community. This is a preliminary number, as a calculation of the shelterless is being carried out at the moment. {BR} Up to now 601 families have bought houses in Akhouryan by the program of house-buying. 27 more families have got houses in 2004 from the building reconstructed by the Lince fund. This year no sum has been allotted for construction...

During the recent several years the libraries in Gyumri are badly heated. The librarians and readers often bring the fuel from their own homes, our colleagues from Tsayg TV company report. {BR} The electric heaters do not provide the essential temperature as each library can use 2 kilowatts for heating the rooms. Presently only one room is heated with the help of an oven. ''We are not able to heat...