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The mayor of Yerevan Ervand Zakharyan tried to give some information about the sale of the territories of the RA National Academy of Science (NAS) chemical institution. With this purpose he invited the head of the institution Sevada Davtyan to the municipal administration office. It is worth to mention that the city administration sold the …

Bridges The reconstruction projects on the bridge of Davitashen will be finished this year (480 mln dram). It will be ready on November 30. The reconstruction works of the first part of the Kievyan bridge are finished (385 mln dram). The reconstruction works of the little bridge of the “cable car” building will be finished …

Our traffic policeman can’t do anything to stop the drivers of cars ”with good numbers” to violate the law. In spite of this the traffic policemen don’t hesitate give tickets to people who are not able to protect themselves. On Saturday not far from the crossroads of Teryan and Abovyan streets we saw seven cars …

Today “168 Hours” weekly journalist Arman Galoyan was called to the office of public prosecutor of the Marz of Shirak. The reason is the resignation of the mayor of Gyumri Vardan Ghukasyan. The problem is that in our last publication concerning the upcoming local government elections we wrote the following: “The recent incidents and murders …

Until now, I am trying to find reasons for saying “yes” to the new Constitution ever since the first day that the constitutional amendments began. Just the fact that our country is taking a huge step towards Europe by passing the constitutional amendments is a good enough reason, but is that step really worth it …

“This is Yerevan, where you are at home, where everyone waits for you and still remembers you…” Ruben Hakhverdyan Last Sunday we celebrated the 2787-th anniversary of our beloved city Yerevan. The history of this celebration started in 1968, when the Soviet Armenian government of the time decided to celebrate the 2750-th anniversary of Yerevan. …

“Some people visited us from language revision and said that we had to write everything in Armenian starting from October 1” – say the stuff members of #19 polyclinic. This is not the only polyclinic facing this problem. “We are informed that almost all the medical centers are faced with this problem. There are already …

On October 3, residents had closed the Noraduz section of the road leading to Gavar simply because there was a ban on transferring fish from Gavar. According to non-official sources, that took a couple of hours. After coming to terms with the chief region policeman in regard to fishing there, the fishers opened the road. …

According to epidemiologist and professional of the infectious and non-infectious epidemics department of the State Hygiene and Anti-epidemic section of the Ministry of Health Liana Torosyan, the Ministry of Health continuously receives information from the Ministry of Health of Iran about this event and there have not been any official data. “We have already asked …

On October 12, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) stated that it had completed installing the heating system in the hospital located in Sevan. As a result of the financed project implemented by the USAID and the Advanced Engineering Associates International Organization during March-August 2005, the hospital in Sevan now has a modern …