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The Armenian government has provided 39.1 billion AMD for the health sector for 2006, which exceeds last year’s amount by 7 billion. In fact, the 14 billion 300 million from that (nearly 35%) is aimed towards financing the ambulatory polyclinics. The Minister of Health of Armenia hoped that the money aimed towards helping the people …

The artificial “Zinacef” drug produced by the Anglo-American “Glaxox-mit-Klein” brand name company can currently be found in Armenian drug stores. Although there are rumors going around that the maternity hospital workers of Gyumri were the ones that encountered the drug, however director of the “Glaxox-mit-Klein” company’s Armenian representation Hripsime Deghdzunyan says that their representation was …

“There is officially no censure in Armenia, but the president’s administration leads its politics by giving orders, especially to public television.” This is how the internationally known Freedom House evaluates the freedom of press in Armenia in its report. The analysts of the organization say the following: “Despite the variety of presses, there are some …

Two police officers were killed in an apartment building in Moscow yesterday where there are Armenian citizens. However, there were no injuries. According to the Russian police, citizens called the police in the early hours of the morning and told them that they heard some people crying in the building. When police officers got to …

The Public Services Regulatory Commission postponed the discussion of the water price increase yesterday. It was actually a surprise for the commission to hear head of the state committee on water economy Andranik Andreasyan and director of the “Yerevan Water” joint-stock company Serge Popoff make announcements about the water price increase. The topics for discussion …

The deputy foreign affairs minister of Russia Grigori Karasin and the Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Moscow Polad Bjulbjuloghli exchanged diplomatic notes yesterday on taking out the Russian military forces of Georgia through the territory of Azerbaijan. Russia is going to take out all its military bases from Georgia within the coming two years. A part …

According to the RA ministry of defense, on April 26, at 11:40 Azerbaijan made ceasefire violations, which resulted in physical injuries. Azeri soldiers shot the right shoulder of Armenian soldier of Vayk military forces, Harut Manucharyan, born in 1987. Also on April 25, at 20:40 two other soldiers from Ijevan military forces got physical injuries …

The only official announcement that the prosecutor’s office has made so far says that Prashant Anchalia jumped from his dormitory room and got different injuries, as a result of which he died. In regard to this case the general prosecutor’s office of Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeitun communities has instituted legal proceedings on the basis of Article …

The Armenian Genocide of 1915 is one of the dark pages of Armenian history. In the aftermath of the massacres in the Ottoman Empire, Armenians lost one and a half million compatriots and the land belonging to us, which was under the control of the empire at the time. The nine decades following the tragic …

Recently, the mayor of the city of Plesi-Robinson in France (six kilometers away from Paris) and MP of the Otde-Sen region Philip Pemezeki and his delegation paid an official visit to Yerevan. The purpose of the visit was to sign a contract with the Arabkir community based on the memorandum signed long before (Arabkir and …