The continuing actions of protest against the construction of boutiques in Mashtots Park have become a bad surprise for the Yerevan authorities, and now in order to justify the destruction of greenery in the park, they say they just meant to improve the area.  On their web-site they announce a plan to build two alleys and flowerbeds in the park, to repair its irrigation system and to provide it with night illumination. All this may sound nice, but if you look at the outlay of the future park, you will see that it will have very few trees to protect you and other visitors from the scorching sun of the Yerevan summer.This is not the first time the Yerevan authorities are talking about "improvement." In 2010 they cut down almost 20 trees in Students Park so as to clear a place for a cafe, while on their web-site they said that they were planning to lay new flag- and border-stones and to "refresh" the local bushes and flowerbeds.Despite protests the cafe was built, the roads were covered with new stones, but no bushes were left to be "refreshed." What we have today is just a cafe in gray and no green: this is how our Municipality sees the picture of "improved" Yerevan.In order to prevent the same situation in Mashtots Park, the greens persist in their protest against the park being turned into a paradise of brick and concrete.
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 The Armenian environmentalists have expressed protest against the Government's decision to shoot some 200 wolves.President of the Center of Lovers of Birds NGO Silva Adamyan has told ArmInfo that the problem is not that the number of wolves is growing.  Simply, they have no place to live because of the mass cutting of woods and the active development of mining. "Wolves are kind of 'sanitarians' of the woods: they hunt for sick and weak animals. Mass shooting may have very bad consequences. In England such a campaign has resulted in near extinction of wolves," Adamyan said.She suggests a way-out of the situation: breeding wolf dogs for scaring off wolves from populated areas.  "We have some 700 wolves. So, killing as many as 200 species is too much. Now that our forest area is shrinking they will hardly be able to normally reproduce," Adamyan said.
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Details will be available after the contract is officially concluded…
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Dishdishyan established a new company Mars Media…
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Vienna, 22 February 2012-According to the statistics by Serbia’s Ministry of Interior, attacks on journalists in the country have decreased in the past two years. In 2010, there were seven recorded attacks against journalists. In 2011, three cases of threats to journalists’ safety were recorded. The police had solved all of the above- mentioned cases, Serbia’s Minister of the Interior, Ivica Dacic, said during a recent meeting with a delegation of the Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), headed by Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General. The meeting took place at the Ministry’s headquarters in Belgrade, Serbia.
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Will the letter prevent adoption of resolution on the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic?
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Heritage Party founding leader Raffi Hovannisian has addressed a letter to Volker Kauder, chairman of Germany's conservative CDU/CSU parliamentary group
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OSCE/ODIHR will deploy 24 long-term and 250 short-term observers in Armenia
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The participants of the sitting also discussed domestic political developments and strategic issues connected with the May parliamentary elections.
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