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Armenia’s rail communication with the outside world, disrupted by the weekend sabotage attack in Georgia-Gori railway (40 kilometers from Gori to Tbilisi), could cause serious consequences for the cargo transportation in the coming days through an old bridge bypassing the damaged section of the Georgian railway because the cargo transportation to Armenia is done through …

This edition of 168 Hours is the last edition before summer vacation. The next edition will be issued on August 5. Even though this summer has been hotter than the previous ones, we hope that there won’t be critical developments in this period and our readers will not blame us of using our Constitutional right …

There was a response to the publication of the article “Army as an issue” published in our newspaper (#54, May 31-June 2). It related to the fact that there are no libraries in armies. According to the response there are libraries in armies. The problem is that that few young people read books. That is …

Karen Asryan, an Armenian chess grandmaster who was the ex-Soviet nation’s reigning champion and helped it win the 2006 Chess Olympiad, died yesterday after suddenly losing consciousness. He was 28. Asryan was ranked 92nd by the World Chess Federation. A moment of silence was held in his memory before the opening of a speed-chess tournament …

Numerous programs have been implemented in 2007 in the framework of the cooperation agreement between Arabkir community of Armenia and Plessis-Robinson of France. In 2007 due to the efforts of the community council of Arabkir the card library of #5 children’s polyclinic of Arabkir was fully repaired and the funding of Plessis-Robinson city council built …

Yesterday at about 2:30 p.m. in the crossroads of Heratsi-Koryun streets a Mercedes with the plate numbers “77 SL 800” hit three young girls – Mariam V. Harutyunyan, 1990, Hasmik B. Poghosyan, 1990, Christine G. Grigoryan, 1987. The state of the two of the girls is very bad (according to our information one leg of …

– What do you think about the minerals of Armenia? Is Armenia rich of mines? – The overall minerals of our country are estimated at about $100 billion. This is a smaller sum because as a result of the recent inflation processes this sum is higher now. This is the estimation that has been done …

Sevak, who was under the hand of his grandma, was shaking all the time, moving his eyes and speaking something. I asked him what he was thinking about. “I am not thinking, I have already decided. I will go to serve in the army, later I will become a policeman. I have decided to become …

On the night of April 19 an emergency occurred in Vayots Dzor marz but the authorities have stayed silent about that till yesterday. The emergency occurred in Khachik village of Vayk, in the result of which four Armenian young men – Vanik Nikolayi Chmboyan from Gavar, Artyom Andraniki Zohrabyan, Karen Jivani Torosyan and Aghasi Atomi …

As of today 3 citizens are receiving medical treatment in the medical institutions of the RA Ministry of Healthcare as a result of the events of March 1. In the Saint Grigor Lusavorich Hospital and medical center #2 one citizen per hospital. In Erebuni medical center one person is still in the reanimation. Let us …