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Today the Union of Experts has sent an open letter to Grigor Amalyan, Chairman of the National Commission on Television and Radio (NCTR).

A murder was reported in Yerevan’s Nor Nork community yesterday evening. According to eye-witnesses the victim, 42-year-old Armen, worked in an exchange desk in Nor Nork.

The “Democratic Way” party sent an open letter to heads of “ArmenTel”-“Beeline”, “VivaCell-MTS”, “Water-Sewer”, “ArmRusGazard”, “Armenia’s Electric Networks” and other companies that have monopolies and provide public services with a call to lower fees.

“Damn those cashbox counters”, “Prime Minister, Prime Minister”-screamed fair workers of Yerevan today in front of the government building on the day of the government sitting. The workers refuse to work with the cashier counters and want to pay a fixed amount.

The global financial crisis is hitting movie theatres the most. The fall in numbers of movie-goers and incomes is making it hard for theatres to obtain the right to show films.

Rents go up year after year in Yerevan and the rise of prices hurts students from the Marzes who study in Yerevan and are forced to live here.

A fire broke out in the garage located on 80 Chernishevski Street of Gyumri on January 22 at 7:15 a.m. The firefighting crew left for the scene and the fire was put out at 7:42 a.m. The fire left the roof of the garage belonging to G. Martirosyan burnt.

Opposition papers were the best-selling papers during the final months of last year and continue to be the best-selling in the first month of this year. This is what “A1+” found out after taking a survey among newspaper sellers.

Armenian citizen Gevorg Gevorgyan, 1972, died near Moscow’s underground station Belyaevo January 20 after being knocked down by a train.

The Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will consider the suspension of Armenia’s voting right in its winter session.

Tel Cell’s street terminals located in Yerevan’s central streets aren’t working today. Most of them are locked with iron leads covered with dust.

The Erebuni police division received an “emergency” call on January 18 at 4:30 p.m. that a body had been found in the field located in front of the #5 building on Erebuni Street.

Taxi drivers with white license plates can drive their cars for a couple of more days without any fines. “They’re still not checking, but they will soon. The transportation inspectorate can’t pull cars over by itself. That’s up to the road police,” told “A1+” press speaker for the RA Minister of Transportation and Communication Susanna Tonoyan.

A fire broke out in building #17 located on Sundukyan Street of Yerevan on January 19 at 6:58 p.m. A rescue team left for the scene and the fire was put out at 7:28 p.m.

Upon the initiative of the "Refugees & International Law" civil society network a group of Yerevan civilians marched to the memorial complex to the victims of Baku in the Tsitsernakaberd.

Today the employees of Yerevan fairs staged a protest action in front of the government building against a recent decision to place cash-registering apparatuses in fairs.

A fire broke out in Nursery School N2 at 21/2 Vratsyan, Yerevans, at 6:21 p.m. January 18. The fire was extinguished at 6:59.

People have to walk attentively in Yerevan streets as icicles hanging from building facades can fall on their heads at any moment.

Today VivaCell-MTS announced the official hand over ceremony of neonatal intensive care cot to the Medical Research Center for Maternal and Child Health Protection.

A traffic accident was reported at the 25th km of Kapan-Yerevan road January 15. A Kamaz 57 TS 574 lorry went off the course and ran into a concrete pillar.

In the period between 2002 and 2007, 9.7% of the population of Armenia has migrated. In that period, each migrant has traveled to a foreign country 2 times a year on average, which means that there have been 460,000 migrants from Armenia during the past six years.

“We demand freezing the issue concerning the independent taxi service until the economic crisis ends because we can’t continue to work like this and pay taxes to the government and the bank for new cars,” said during a discussion today independent taxi driver Saghatel Movsisyan.

The plan for the statue dedicated to national hero Karen Demirchyan to be installed near the Main and Mashtots avenues, remains unknown. In mid-June 2008, the Yerevan city council declared a contest for the best plan proposals, but the results are still unclear.