Rumours are about that the Rector of Yerevan State University Aram Simonian will be dismissed from office. At the beginning of the new academic year Aram Simonian said “no one can discharge me but the YSU Council.”

It is very difficult to get public support in the fight against corruption in a country that has witnessed the events of March 1 and where people live in fear”, stated today president of “Transparency International” Amalya Kostanyan.

Although the Armenian students’ movement is not yet fulfilling the four pillars of student representation, there is ample enthusiasm to improve the picture, according to an assessment conducted by the European Students’ Union. The report was commissioned by the OSCE Office in Yerevan and presented for public discussion in Yerevan today.

Stepanavan's citizen Victoria Mardoyan, 1941, was taken to hospital with food poisoning (canned pepper) at 6:15 p.m. on September 16.

Two days ago the National Assembly passed the disputable amendments to the Law on “Television and Radio” under which no tender for TV and Radio frequencies will be announced in Armenia by 2010. Meantime, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe will raise the issue of embattled A1+ in its upcoming sitting on September 17.

“The first four months of the marriage passed away in a winkle of an eye. Everything was wonderful. But a year later when the baby was born, unbearable social problems emerged and we divorced,” said 25-year-old Vardan who divorced five months ago.

A fire broke out in an asphalt plant in Hrant Shahinian Street, Town of Maralik, Shirak Marz, at 07.27, September 11.

The wives of political prisoners were not aware that the Armenian Office of Committee of Europe, already ten days, is relocated from David Anhaxt Street to Zarubyan Street. About this change they were told by the neighboring security guard of the French University.

Five years along the residents, whose owned estates were estranged by the Government, for the state needs, complain on Government. They addressed their complain-letter to the Prime Minister Tigran Sargisyan on August 25, with the demand to organize a working group for reviewing the procedure of estate estrangement.

Seven years ago, on September 11, 2001, two passenger airliners crashed into the World Trade Center Twin Towers, in New York and destroyed them completely. About three thousands people became victims of the terrorist attack.

The serving group of AR Emergency Situation Ministry announced that on September 10, at 12:50 pm, on the 62nd km of Ashtarak- Giumry Highway, in unrevealed circumstances a BWV model car was turned aside and burned.

On September 10, in Machine Tools Plant of Yerevan, a deadly accident occurred at 14:25pm. Aramais Yeremyan, born in 1974, in village Aigedzor of Tavush County, was deadly killed by the electricity power, during performing his professional responsibilities. His dead body was released from the accident spot by safeguard group and provided to the Law officials.

On September 6 a bear attacked Hersik Poghossian, inhabitant of the village of Tsakkar, Gegharkunik, in the yard of her house.

The parents of victim-soldiers who died in military units while at service staged a sit-down strike in front of the Government building but the police forcibly removed them from there.

Today the main theme of discussions in Armenia’s political circles is Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul’s upcoming visit to Armenia. A1+ tried to know our fellow-citizens opinion on Gul’s arrival.

A seven-magnitude earthquake was recorded near the Nakhidzevan-Iran frontier at about 1:00 a.m. According to the Armenian National Centre for Seismic Protection the earthquake also shook Armenia.

A fire broke out in house 14 in the village of Verin Dzrashen at 01:57 on September 1. Two fire brigades and a water-carrier were sent to the site shortly afterwards.

A1+ Company invites Armenian-English translators to work in A1+’s online website (articles should be translated and posted on the webpage on the spot).Computer literacy is a must.

The Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan’s Kentron and Nork Marash districts upheld the claim of Kentron’s inhabitant Armine Arakelian against a local joint ownership.

“I shall vote for no one,” say residents of Kanaker-Zeytun district. A1+ wondered what expectations they have from the upcoming election to self-government body scheduled for September 7.

Today we evidenced one more protest action against state entities in front of the Government building. It was held by residents of Dalma gardens and “zone of alienation,” young people struggling for Teghut’s ecology system and parents of army servants who died during military service.

Fuel crisis in Armenia continues. If once you could see a line of cars in front of filling-stations, today 2-3 lines have appeared. Drivers are at a loss. The only way of getting petrol is by checks but they are not available for everybody. Filling-stations have petrol but the employees are instructed not to sell without checks. “No one is given fuel without a check.”

There is no pork in Armenia. Today Armenians mainly eat frozen pork imported from foreign countries. One can hardly find fork at Yerevan markets.

The building of “Youth Radio” of Javakheti which belongs to the United Javakheti Democratic Alliance has been controlled by the Georgian security agencies since July 18. Access to the building is denied. In the result some organisations stopped operating.