According to a recent survey conducted by the State Commission for the Protection of Economic Competition (SCPEC) of the Republic Armenia it is two months the wheat price has fallen down at the international market.

Two experts from the BBC World Service Trust will conclude a one-week visit today aimed at assessing Armenian Public Television’s needs for long-term development and training programmes. The assessment is part of a project commissioned by the OSCE Office in Yerevan.

On July 18 GALA TV, “Radio Hay” Radio Station and Stepanakert’s Press Club won the prizes of Yerevan Press Club (YPC).

A middle-aged man was found near Yerevanian Lake in an unconscious state at 6.45 p.m. on July 17. The man was found out to have fallen in an impassable place and lost consciousness. Rescuers were called to take the man out.

“Hima” youth movement has issued an open letter to RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian. The letter goes: “On July 17 Levon Chakhmakhchyan, Senator of the Russian Duma and Armenian friend of Robert Kocharyan, was sentenced to 9 years in prison for bribery in the Russian Federation.

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Aslan Avetissian, resident of Ararat region, member of the Yerkrapah Volunteer Union (YKM) and Levon Ter-Petrossian’s proxy, was sentenced to a six months’ imprisonment on July 16. The verdict was brought in by Court of General Jurisdiction of Kentron and Nork-Marash districts after a four hours’ consultation.

The Muslim World League (MWL) will organize a global interfaith dialogue in Madrid on July 16-18. Leading personalities representing various monotheistic religions will participate in the three-day conference, discussing various topics, including social amity, international cooperation, human rights and peaceful co-existence.

The seventy-year-old man sitting on a window-sill of apt. 7, house 188, Bashinjaghian Str., with a bloody face and an axe in his hand, threatened to jump out since 1.00 p.m. July 14.

On July 15th of 2008, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute will host the congratulatory event dedicated to Sirak Sarhatian’s “My Memoirs” book. This event will take place at 2pm in the Komitas Hall of the Institute.

RoA Deputy Minister of Education Bagrat Yesayan summed up the results of the entrance exams-2008 on July 11. He says the exams were held in a quitter atmosphere this year if compared with the previous years.

Fifteen Armenian children from socially vulnerable families have been in Moscow over the past days. They were participating in the “Friendship” summer camp and will be back to Yerevan on July 11.

After staging a protest action at the Governmental Building people struggling for the protection of Teghut forests proceeded to the RA Court of Concession. On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Court President Serzh Sargssian, Prime-Minister Tigran Sargssian and other high-rank officials had all gathered at the site.

On July 8, 2008 in Yerevan a conference was held on “Media Diversity in Armenia”, organized by the Council of Europe, OSCE and Yerevan Press Club. The conference participants, representatives of media, professional associations, official structures and political parties of Armenia, international organizations and diplomatic missions discussed the urgent issues of the media of the country:

In the frames of previously arranged regional visits RA Ombudsman Armen Harutyunian and his work team have left for Syunik Region to find out the problems concerning human rights. During his visit Harutyunian met Governor of Syunik Suren Khachatrian, as well as mayors of Goris, Kapan, Sisian, Meghri and Agarak.

Pupils, parents and teaching staff of Yerevan's School # 9 for children with hearing disabilities and children with weak hearing staged a protest action near the RoA Ministry of Education and Science (MES) on July 9.

“The case of “A1+” must be reconsidered immediately. It is the demand of the European Court of Human Rights,” declared Andrew Mackintosh, Head of the PACE subcommittee of Mass Media at the international conference “Pluralism in the Armenian Mass Media”.

With sanctification of His Holiness Garegin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, the publishing department of the Holy See of Echmiadzin published the Armenian translation of “Le génie du christianisme” by well-known French writer François-René de Chateaubriand.

On July 7 the rescuers dragged out of the pond near the Village of Dprabak, Gegharkunik Region the corpse of drowned Nikolos Yeritsyan. On July 6 the rescuers were informed that Resident of Dprabak Village Nikolos Yeritsyan, 38, was drowned in the nearby pond.

What is your opinion about the reaction of Armenia's leadership towards a June 17 decision of the European Court? Do they want to reap the fruits of their mistakes and restore the violated rights of A1+ Company?

The website http://www.mediahelpingmedia.org today wrote an article about “A1+”. Following is the article in the original.

A Volkswagen Passat 11 OT 657 got stuck in wet sands while U-turning on the beach near Sevan at 11.05 p.m. on June 25. Rescuers took the car out at about 11.35.

“We are content with the verdict of the European Court of Human Rights in the sense it proves we are right, a fact we have been trying to prove the Armenian authorities for 6 years. I think the decision will give us an opportunity to participate in the tenders on equal terms, without discrimination,” declared Director of “A1+” Mesrop Movsessian at a press conference in the “De facto” Club.

An accident occurred on the 22nd km of Ashtarak-Talin Highway at 11:45, on June 25. A Mercedes C-280 (registration number 22 UL 800) went out of the route and turned, crashing into a tree.