News Archive

2006


December
Armenia's Hymn Remains Unchanged
Anti-Trust Body Warns Retailers Against Price Hike
Despite Heavy Snow Roads Open For Traffic
Yerevan Water Company May Reduce Water Price
Government Promises Funds For Digitization Of Documentaries
Authorities Press Coup Charges Against War Veteran
Armenia: Climate of Self-Censorship
Veteran Governors Sacked
New ArmenTel Owner Vague On Investments, Prices
Armenia Left Without Anthem
Thousands In Gyumri Still Live In Domiks
Armenia Leads The Way In Using Cleaner Car Fuel
Yerevan Municipality To Purchase 20 Trolleybuses

November
Armenia Expects To Get $30 Million From Asian Development Bank For Rural Road Rehabilitation
82 Percent of Armenian Women Take Interest In Politics
Alternative Not To Seek Parliament Seats
Yerevan Subway to Have New Station By 2010
Commission Declines ArmenTel's Request
Unemployment Level Drops To 7.4 Percent
Yerevan-Minsk-Yerevan Flight Opening To Make Armenian-Belarus Political, Economic And Cultural Ties Closer
U.S. Government Grants Vehicles To Armenian Border Guards
Air Arabia Launches Two Weekly Flights To Armenian Capital City
Refugees In Shirak Province Registered
Seven Children Transferred To Foster Families
COAF Donates Cows To 20 Unsecured Families Of Shenik Community Of Armenian Province Of Armavir
Armenia Has The Highest Rate Of Vehicles Working On Natural Gas
Dilijan Regional Tourism Information Center To Open Next Tuesday
Yerevan Traffic Creates Chaos
Tsarukian's Hotel Opens in Tsaghkadzor with Fanfare
Some 380,000 Tourists Expected To Visit Armenia In 2006
Poverty Level Decreases In Armenia
New Antihail Systems To Be Installed In Shirak Province
Armenia's Permanent Population Up To 3.2 Million

October
Water Resources Management Office Opens In Akhurian
WWF To Continue Protection Of Armenian Leopards
World Bank Supports Armenian Social Investment Fund Targeting the Poor
Kocharian Receives Outgoing French Ambassador
UNDP and Hayastan Foundation Sign Memorandum on Cooperation In Armenia
NGO Creating A Special Reserve Zone In Armenia's South
Oskanian Not Going to Be Minister for Another 5 Years
Armenia Needs 1,700 Family Doctors
Hayastan Fund To Rehabilitate Downtown Yerevan Park
Open House Conducted At American University of Armenia
OPEC Fund Considering Release Of Fresh $12 Million Loan To Armenia
Armenian Post Given To Dutch Company's Management
Rural Development Programs To Be Carried Out In Shenik And Yervandashat Communities
Armenia Fund Completes Yerevan's Nork-Marash Hospital Reconstruction
NATO Secretary General's Special Representative To Discuss Nato-Armenia In Yerevan
Three Iraqi Armenian Families Move To Armenia
Regional Educational Center For Training Engineers Founded In Yerevan
Armenia Enters New Round of Democracy, Constitutional Court Chairman Says
"Revival of Shoushi" Fund Declared Start of Reconstruction of Town
Armentel Promises to Restore Telephones in All Armenian Rural Communities
Armenia Expected To Have Bird Flu Reference Laboratory
Armenia To Present Anti-Smoking Report To WHO
Armenian Nuclear Power Plant Halted For Refueling
Armavia Plans To Lease Four Aircrafts

September
Armenia And U.S. Formally Inaugurate $235 Million Rural Development Program
Atom-Antiterror 2006 Exercise Over In Armenia
Russian Fortress In Gyumri Being Remodeled Into Festival Center
Amended Bill Calls For Greater Compensation to Owners of Alienated Private Property
Social-Psychological Center Opens In Dalarik Community, Armavir Province
Eurasia Foundation Supports Resource Development in Rural Communities
Heads Of Hotels And Restaurants Pass Training Courses
Declaration Adopted As A Result Of The Third Armenia-Diaspora Conference
Investigation Of Armenian Jet Crash Going On
Leaders Of States Congratulate Armenian President On Independence Day
Number Of Adopted Children Down From A Year Ago
Central Bank Issues Memorial Coin Dedicated To Komitas
Hayastan Foundation Inaugurates Renovated Hospital Wards And Swimming Pool
Prosecutors Indict Two Men For Killing Top Tax Official
Third Armenia-Diaspora Conference Opens In Yerevan
World Bank Survey Shows Improved Governance In Armenia
Lori Water Supply And Removal System To Be Improved
New System Of Electronic Documental Circulation Is Applied In Yerevan Municipality
Arrival Section Of New Terminal At Zvartnots Airport To Become Effective In Two Days
Armenian Nuclear Power Plant To Be Halted For Refueling
436 Registered HIV/AIDS Carriers In Armenia
Armenian And Azeri Youth Meet In Armenia
RA President Awarded Armenian Diplomats with Mkhitar Gosh Order
Yerevan Forms New Bodies To Boost Ties With Eu
35 Artificially Inseminated Babies Born
Outgoing U.S. Ambassador Awarded Armenian Medal
Courses In Trafficking Coverage For Beginner Journalists To Be Held In Yerevan On September 7-12
U.S. Government Completes $30,000 Of Renovations To Armenian National Cinematheque
Exhibition Dedicated To Armenian National Currency Opens In Ijevan
'Hayastan' Fund Announces About Strict Supervision

August
IMF Delegation Arrives In Armenia For Two-Week Visit
Armenia To Start Producing Mozzarella And Mozzarella-Pizza Italian Cheese In September
Gyumri Sees Unprecedented Construction Boom
Armenians Bid Farewell To Renowned Poetess
Government Released Funds For Reconstruction Of Schools In The Armenian Provinces
Silva Kaputikyan Burial Scheduled For Tuesday
Scholar Says Aghdam Finds Show Armenians' Long Cultural Presence
Ra Prime Minister Sends Congratulation Message On Occasion Of Anniversary Of Declaration Of Independence
City Authorities Admit Lack Of Space To Accommodate To Construction Boom
Number Of Tourists To Armenia Grows By 11.6% In First Half Of 2006
906 Kindergartens Are Functioning In Armenia
250 Diasporan Armenian Entrants Present Applications For Studying In Higher Educational Institutions Of Armenia Up Today
Free Eye Operations To Be Performed In Gyumri
First Results Of Tigranakert Expedition
Armenian Hydrometeorological Center: Temperature in Yerevan Not to Exceed +40C
Armenian Provinces Lack Medical Staff
Traffic Accidents Increase By 37 In Yerevan In First Half Year
Kinder-Garten In Village Of Aratashen Being Reconstructed
In 2007 in Shoushi a Nine Stored Hotel will be Exploitated
Important Urban Construction Projects Are Carried Out In Yerevan In First Half Of 2006
New Underground Station To Be Built In Yerevan Soon
1,500 Monuments Registered In Liberated Territories Of Nagorno Karabakh

July
Students From The French University Of Armenia Win European Human Rights Competition
Armenian Fixed Telephone Network Passed Over To Russian Company
Yerevan Brandy Company To Buy 30,000 Tons Of Grapes
International Scientific Conference On Issues Of Cardiology To Open In Yerevan
Tourism Information Centers To Open In Tsakhkadzor, Dilijan And Sevan By End Of 2006
Yerevan Press Club Gives Awards To Best Journalist Of Armenia
Teachers From Brazil And Romania Take Part In Diasporan Armenian Teachers' Training Courses For The First Time
15 People Start Walking March From Gyumri To Shushi
Armenian Cultural Studies and Documentation Center - Press Release
Three More Villages In Tavush Connected To Gas Network
Authorities In Syunik Say Drought Causes 4 Billion Damages
Shirak Province Hit By Drought And Hail
Ruins Of Post-Urartian Fortress Discovered In Tsakhkadzor
Central Bank Of Armenia To Issue Coins Dedicated To Chess Players

June
Vahanavank Being Restored
The flights from "Zvartnots" airport to be executed with the normal regime
Lake Sevan Evaporates 3 Centimeters
ArmenTel New Owner Name to Be Known in Late July-Early August
Air Temperature in July Can Reach +40C
93 Public School Graduates Will Receive Gold Medals
Number Of Taxi Services Burgeoning Up
Armenia To Become Measles Free By 2010
During Summer Months Trains Will Work In Yerevan-Batumi Direction
Gyumri Will Have A New Municipal Building
President And Ecology Minister Discuss Lake Sevan And Other Issues
Number Of Tourists To Armenia Grows By 15.3%, Those From Armenia By 13.5% In First Quarter Of 2006
U.S. to Allot $790 thousand for Training of Armenian Military
Farmers Hope For Good Yield Of Vegetables
Road Police Warns Against Juvenile Driving
Farmers Anticipate Good Fruit Yield
Armenia Joins International Community in Commemorating United Nations World Environment Day, with a Focus on Illegal Logging and Desertification
In 2011 Zvartnots Airport to Receive 3 Million Passengers Annually
Zvartnots Airport To Have New Terminal In 2007 May
Armenia To Install Administrative Courts In 2007
Center For Promotion Of Small And Medium-Sized Businesses Inaugurates New Central Office
A Forest-Planting Will Initiate

May
Government Commission Endorses Company Bid To Raise Drinking Water Price
Armenpress News Agency Among Founders Of Black Sea Association Of News Agencies
Armenian President Congratulated Armenian People on Republic Day
Defectors From Orinats Yerkir Form New Group
Grand Insurance Firm Starts Paying Compensations For Killed Airliner Passengers' Relatives
Hasmik Poghosyan Appointed Minister of Culture
Shushi Foundation Expects Donations From Armenians To Restore Town's Monuments
Levon Mkrtchyan Appointed Minister of Education and Science
Internet Connects Karakert To The World
Union of Armenians of Russia to Take Part in Next Parliamentary Elections in Armenia
National Police Computer Network to Be Developed in Armenia
COAF Establishes Two Adolescent Clubs To Promote Livestock Farming
Kapan To Have More Working Elevators
Edifice In Place Of Cinema House Will Not Be Higher Than Buildings In Republican Square
Dilijan Resort To Offer New Hotels For Holiday-Makers
Armavia: Weather Conditions Probable Cause of A-320 Airplane Crash
Armenian Doctor's Journeys Home Benefited His People

April
National Security Strategy Elaboration Committee Held Fourth Sitting
Rains and Melting Snow Cause Flooding Across Armenia
Unexpected Snow Fears Farmers
AUA and Nork Marash Medical Center Author a Study on Quality of Intensive Care
50 Armenian Students Join Bone Marrow Donor Registry
Armavia Airline Give Valuable Present To Its 100,000th Passenger In 2006
A Presidential Think-Tank Unveiled
Armenian Women Politicians Lament Lack Of Female Support
Interview In US Embassy For Getting Visa To Be Appointed By Telephone In Armenia From May 1
Armenian TV To Broadcast Easter Divine Liturgy Internationally
Applications To Be Accepted For The President Award
RA Head and U.S. Congressmen Discussed Karabakh Settlement
Italian Government Assigned 35 Thousand Euros for Reconstruction of Armenian Monuments
Open Programming Championship To Be Held In Armenia
Armenian Government And World Bank Sign Agreement On Renewable Energy Project
'Regional Environmental Center' Hosts Official Launch of ATP Environmental Education Curriculum
Kocharian Congratulates Armenian Women on Maternity and Beauty Day
Armenia Saw $500 Million Foreign Investment Last Year
Vartan Oskanian and EU Representative Discussed Armenia-EU Action Plan Elaboration
ARF Unveils Its Draft Concept On Dual Citizenship
Electronic Referendum Launched over Turning Shoushi Pan-Armenian Cultural Center

March
Head Of Millennium Challenges Corporation To Visit Armenia
Nuclear Energy Allows Armenia Export Energy
"Poverty Reduction In Rural Areas" Program To Start In Armenia In September 2006
Oskanian: «Looking back, I cannot Say Where Armenia Would Be without Diaspora»
Armenians Drink More Coffee Than Brazilians
Tender To Be Announced For Redevelopment Of A Yerevan Quarter
Hnchakian Party To Expand Activity In Armenia
Parliamentary Hearing On The Theme Of "Tourism In Armenia: Problems And Perspectives" To Be Held In Yerevan On March 29
Cyber Crimes To Become Punishable
"Armavia" Airline To Resume Yerevan-Tel Aviv Flights
Millions Of US Dollars To Be Invested In Rehabilitation Of Heating Systems
Swiss Group Offers A $200 Million Investment Proposal
Daniel Fried Indicates U.S. Would Not Object To Construction Of New Nuclear Power Plant In Armenia
US Experts Launch Bird Flu Detecting And Preventing Training Course For Armenian Counterparts
A Techno Park to be Opened in Gyumri
Armenia, US Sign Memorandum On US Government Funded Educational Exchanges
Air France Air Company Opens Direct Flight Between Yerevan And Paris From March 27, 2006
Cafesjian Museum Of Contemporary Art To Be Constructed In 2007 Autumn
Armenia Still Immune From Bird Flu

February
Armenia Posts Drastic Drop Of Poverty Level
UNICEF Combats Bird Flu In Armenia Too
Armenian MOD Head Laid Wreath to Unknown Soldier Monument
Special Squads To Monitor Migratory Birds
Armenia's Population Slightly Up In 2005 To Exceed 3 Million
Over 24 Thousand Historical and Cultural Monuments Registered in Armenia
"Armenian Ophthalmologic Project" Charity Organization To Examine More Than 7 Thsd Inhabitants Of Yerevan
Parliament Elects New Human Rights Defender
Elections Of Armenian Ombudsman Scheduled For February
USAID Installs New Heating System At Maternity Care And Research Center
FAR Reception And Distribution Center Is Six Years Old
Vets Brace For Wild Bird Migration To Armenia
Snow Storm Raving In Gegharkunik
Armenia Works to Establish Alternative Airport
Opposition Nominates New Candidate For Human Rights Defender's Job
Armen Harutunian's Failure To Become Next Ombudsman Came As Surprise
Similar Snowfall in Armenia was in 1978
Assyrian Text-Book Released
12,500 More Passengers Arrived In Armenia In 2005
Armenia's Population Grows 0.1 Percent In 12 Months

January
Second Community Connections Program launched in Armenia
Heavy Snowfall Deprives Residents Of Shushi Of Water
UNHCR To Study Social Problems Of Refugees In Syunik
Kocharian: Armenian Army - Strongest Structure of Our State
Bird Flu Specialists Arriving in Armenia Today
Snowfall in Armenia: Is Situation Under Control?
New Buses With Old Fares
Snowfall in Armenia Likely to Continue All Week
Air France To Operate Paris-Yerevan Flights
Days of Italy in Armenia Good Precedent for Days of Armenia in Italy
Tenders To Be Announced For Implementation Of Lincy-Funded Projects
OSCE Office Opens Second Aarhus Center In Armenia
Yerevan- Tel Aviv Flight Established
No Individual Or Bird Suffering From Avian Influenza In Armenia
Temporary Shelter For Homeless Opens February 1
Komitas Avenue In Yerevan To Be Redesigned By "Lincy" Foundation
Prosecutors Bring First Charges Of Election Fraud In Armenia
Armenian Agency Receives 4,000 Applications For Trademarks Registration
British Airways Honors Travel Agents In Armenia
Armenia Bans Import Of Goods From Turkey
Armenia Asks For Bird Flu Info From Turkey
Armenia to Allocate $111,000 to Prevent Bird Flu
 News Archive

2005


December
2006 Budget Earmarks Sizeable Increase For Institutionalized Children
Award Ceremony Of Content "For Pureness Of Armenian Language" Held In Yerevan
Farmers Awarded For Their Achievements
New Road In Yerevan To Take The Traffic Brunt Off The Central Streets
OSCE and AARHUS Center Experts Visit Syunik Province
Public Hearing Of National Water Program Held In Yerevan
Agency Plans Establishing Body To Help Repatriate Armenians
Oskanian Called upon UNESCO to Stop Destruction of Armenian Monuments in Nakhichevan
Yerevan Has Only Seven Swimming-Pools
24 Armenians Repatriate From Switzerland
Zvartnots International Airport Functions in Usual Regime
Russia Pledges To Help Build Space Monitoring Center In Armenia
Communication Ministry Approves New Tariffs For Fixed Telephones
During The Period Of Bad Weather In Yerevan, ArmAvia Air Company Is Using Its Reserve Plan Of Transportation Of Passengers
Armenians Mark 17-Th Anniversary Of Spitak Earthquake
Heavy Fog Blocks Armenian Air Traffic
Iranian-Made Wind Plant Operational In Armenia
Armenia Tree Project 'enters the forest'
German KfW Sets Basic Criteria For Mortgage Loans Allocation

November
Mobile Lab Hits The Roads In Shirak Province
GRECO to Assess Anti-Corruption Activities of Armenia in Early 2006
Repaired Kindergarten To Be Opened In Yerevan
93 Percent Of Voters Back Constitutional Amendments
Everything Ready For Referendum
Armenia's Population To Grow Slightly This Year
From Hong Kong To Armenia: Sharing Anti-Corruption Experience For Better National Action Against Corruption With UNDP Support
Conference On Application Of International Experience Of Corruption Control To Be Held In Yerevan
Poll Finds That 57 Percent Of Armenians Will Go To The Polls On November 27
Armenian President Robert Kocharyan Signs Amendments To Law On Veterans Of World War II
Euro Commission to Allocate 13.5 Million Euros to Implement TRACECA Projects in 2006
Forecasted Production Of Electrical Energy In Armenia To Make 6,190mln Kwt/H In 2006
First Armenian Wind Farm to Be Launched by End of 2005
Training Center for Disabled Children to Open in Armenia in 2006
Lincy Foundation to Allot $60 Million for School and Road Repair
RTI International Captures $8M Armenia Deal
RA Ministry Of Healthcare Intends To Implement Vaccination Of Risk Group Of Population In December 2005 to Prevent Expansion Of Flu
Kapan Has New Street Illumination System
7 Journalists At Leading European Magazines, Newspapers Taken Part In The Second Familiarization Trip To Armenia
Hovhannisian Praises Lincy Foundation Projects
No Cases Of Bird Flue Recorded In Armenia
North-South Highway Next Part Opened in Karabakh
Armenian Traffic Police To Introduce Surveillance Cameras
Armenia to Get $230 Million within the Framework of Millenium Challenges Account
Space Weather Symposium in Armenia Attracts 75 Participants from 11 Countries
Public Transport In Armenia Is Planned To Be Adjust To Needs Of Disabled By 2015
President Kocharian Opens New Cable-Way In Tsakhkadzor
First Armenian Wind Power Plant To Start Power Production In Ten Days
President Kocharian's Congratulatory Message On The Occasion Of The 15th Anniversary Of Armenian Parliament
What Kind Of Yerevan We'll Have In 2020?

October
Armenia Bans Bird Hunting Trying To Prevent Bird Flu
US Government To Release $6 Million Assistance To Armenia Help Conduct Fair National Elections
Results of National Sociological Poll Published In Armenia
Japan a Major Donor of Armenia
73 Percent of Young Armenians Wants Joining European Union
Millennium Challenges Corporation Assessment Team In Armenia To Discuss Its Proposals
New Program of Solid Waste Collection Presented
Italian Cuisine Academy To Open Branch In Yerevan
Social Pensions In Armenia Can Be Reviewed In Mid-2006
Samara Oblast Governor Arriving in Yerevan Today
Iranian Engineers to Commission 1st Wind Power Plant in Armenia Soon
Sevan-Hrazdan Cascade Figures Released
North-South Highway To Be Completed In Two Years
A New Fund "Book" With The Property Capital Worth AMD 100 Thsd Is Established In Armenia
Anti-Smoking Center to Charge $50 Dollars to Help Get Rid Of Dangerous Habit
USAID to Help Health Ministry to Develop Efficient Medicines Management Procedure
Armenian NPP May Be Shut Down In Case Of Alternative Energy Capacities
USAID Celebrates Completion of Its Sevan Hospital Renovation Project
Government Pledges Compensations to Soviet-Era Bank Account Holders
Armenian Health Authorities Bracing Up For Potential Bird Flu Outbreak
Aarhus Centers To Open In Armenian Regions
Zvartnots Airport Introduces Tougher Passenger Registration Procedure
Armenia Receives Us$ 4 Million From The Global Fund
Official Referendum Campaign Started
Armenia Signs Deal to Upgrade Nuclear Waste Facility

September
Capital Construction In Armenia Rises 29.8% For Jan-Aug 2005 To Amd 201407mln
Iran, Armenia to Work on Joint Railway Project
European Parliament Makes Armenian Genocide Recognition A Precondition For Turkey's Accession To EU
Iran To Build €170m Power Plant In Armenia
Rise of Lake Sevan Could Drain Armenia's Treasury
CEC Announces Community Head Election Results In Two Yerevan Districts
UNICEF, Government of Armenia Seal Memorandum on Child Protection System Reform in Lori Region
California International Trade Office To Open In Armenia
Catholicos Garegin II Congratulates Nation Over Independence Day
Armenia Marks Independence Day
President Of Tajikistan Congratulates Robert Kocharyan With Independence Day Of Armenia
Best IT Students Receive Presidential Awards
Baroness Caroline Cox Is Awarded A Medal "Mkhitar Gosh" For Her Input In The Development Of The Armenian -British Relations
RA Ministry Of Education And Science Negotiates With WB On Introduction Of Student Crediting System In Armenia
USAID Statement On Electric Network Of Armenia
European Civil Aviation Conference Notes Progress In Armenia
BAMO Vows to Invest $10 Million to Reshape Armenia's Largest Sport and Concert Complex
3,545 Armenians Given Us Visas In 8 Months Of 2005
Basin of Lake Arpi To Become National Park
WWF Continues Leopard Protection Project In Syunik

August
Armenian Government Approves Amendments To Master Plan Submitted By Zvartnots Airport Manager
Vivacell Company Provides Mobile Communication Services In Vardenis (Gegharkunik Region, Armenia)
GDP Grows 11.7% in Armenia in January-July, 2005, On Same Months Of Last Year
123 Companies And Associations To Take Part In Armenia Expo 2005 Exhibition
Automatized System Of Management To Be Introduced Into Courts Of Armenia
D. Vanyan: Last "Baze" Festival To Contribute To Unity Of Armenian Youth
Second Round Of Programming Contest Of Young Specialists Held In Yerevan
Armenian Occupied Fourth Position At Miss Intercontinental - 2005
Water Dam Put Into Usage In Zeitun
International Conference "Armenian Bible" To Be Held In Echmiadzin On Oct 6-9
Armenian Students Of Foreign Universities Hold Their Forum In Armenia
Baze All-Armenian Youth Festival Starts In Armenia
An Exhibition Of Manuscripts And Works Of Art Of Nor Jugha Was Launched In The Holy See Of Etchmiadzin
July
  World Bank Will Assist Armenia to Implement E-Government Program
  World Bank Approves $15 Million Loan For Armenian Urban Heating Program
  News From Marseille
June
  VivaCell, The Second Mobile Communication Operator In Armenia, Announces Consumer Prices Of Mobile Communication
  Armentel To Lower Mobile Communication Tariffs In Armenia Starting July 1 2005