Society

“According to our information the National Assembly has already adopted the law on cemeteries and morgues and after the ratification of the law we’d like to inform all those subjects that are occupied with the trade of funeral items that from January 1st, 2006 it will be forbidden. The trade will be conducted near the …

Yesterday deputy-mayor of Yerevan Arman Sahakyan announced that from January 1st, 2006 the retail sale of fuel, technical liquids, gas, and pressured gas by mobile means will be forbidden in Yerevan. All the entrepreneurs have been warned about this. Besides this, from January 1st it is planned to conduct periodic strict supervision on trade service …

The former “HyeFilm” film studio has signed contracts with its workers. According to the requirements of the new ownership’s contract, the new owner has kept their positions and has agreed to pay each worker the minimum of 50 thousand drams each month. The workers, in their turn, have signed the ten page contracts printed in …

The pavilions were built by individual businessmen during the years of 1999-2001 with the purpose of selling flowers. The owners of the pavilions had gotten permission for putting the pavilions up years ago and they have all the documents for construction. The right of property of the pavilion owners has been recognized by both the …

According to the information of the RA Civil Aviation Central Board, “Shirak” airport has organized 71 flights within the period if December 3-9 (they have accepted 11000 passengers). In this period about 15 air companies used the services of the apron of “Shirak” airport. Yesterday “Shirak” airport handled eight flights.

The issues (regarding weather) of the passengers, who arrive in Armenia, are various and numerous. And these issues originate not only because of time but also make the passengers nervous. Many people in other cities and countries, who want to arrive in Yerevan waste hours and days. These kinds of specific situations show the level …

In 2006 a new fight is going to start against the illegal construction of buildings. For that reason at the end of the current year the executive and legislative powers got well prepared. They have done certain amendments in the law on urban development, civil law, administrative law, criminal and land laws. They have created …

An accident took place at the “Shirak” airport in Gyumri. When the A-320 plane, belonging to “Armavia”, landed after the 509 Moscow-Gyumri flight, one of the passengers used the emergency exit moving staircase. According to our sources, as a result of the passenger’s carelessness, the plane’s security cushions have fallen out of the plane. Besides …

On December 6, the Syunik Marz prosecutor’s office has sent a message to the Meghri police department claiming that former head doctor of the Meghri central hospital Sargis Poghosyan (born 1958) has taken 2,920,400 drams from the hospital by taking advantage of his position. A criminal act has been brought up according to the 1st …

Razmik Sargsyan, who has been sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment and has gone out on a 110 day hunger strike, has become an experimental marionette for the Nubarashen police department, judges and doctors. Yesterday, we witnessed how doctors were examining Razmik at the Nubarashen police department. There were independent doctors and doctors from the …