The Emergency Situations Ministry of Armenia received an alarm at 12:47pm of May 20 saying that a grenade was found in a bus of the route No54 in the village of Dashtavan, Ararat region, Armenia.

The Ethics Commission on the ethics of high-ranking officials of Armenia has completed the proceeding initiated on the basis of the anti-corruption centre Transparency International regarding chairman of the State Revenues Committee, Gagik Khachatrayn.

A group of people have gathered in front of the government building to protest against the murder of serviceman Luks Stepanyan. His parents tried today to bring his body from Verin Vernashen to Yerevan and to put it in front of the Government building.

Coffin of Luks Stepanyan, a soldier who was killed by his comrade on May 15 at Noyemberyan army unit, will be carried to Yerevan, as the Police, Military Police and Defense Ministry officers have stopped the catafalque driving to the capital city.

Road Police and officers of the Defense Ministry of Armenia are trying to obstruct entry of a cortege carrying body of the killed soldier Luks Stepanyan to Yerevan. The soldier was killed by his comrade in army in Noyemberyan on May 15.

Today night Armenia's Emergency Situations Ministry received a signal about plastic scrap burning at Spayka LLC. Some 17 minutes later the fire was already put out.

Several dozens of participants in the action of protest against gas price hike moved from the building of the Armenian Government to the Public Services Regulatory Committee.

A scuffle started by the people in front of the St. John the Baptist Church in Abovyan town after they were not allowed to see the consecration ceremony of the church, ArmInfo's correspondent reports from the spot. Only journalists were allowed to ender the church.

President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan expressed his displeasure with Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan at the latest meeting of the Republican Party Executive Body, Zhamanak Daily writes.

Former head of the Yerevan Police Nerses Nazaryan has refuted his involvement in the scandal over the blown-up 'economic bubble,' a local Zhoghovurd newspaper writes.

Something is wrong in Vardan Sedrakyan's case and the law- enforcers should properly inquire into it, Alexander Sirunyan, the lawyer of the former candidate for president of Armenia, folklorist Vardan Sedrakyan, told media, Monday.

According to the UNESCO "Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger", 15 languages are endangered, and three more are extinct in Turkey.

The total of 5-6 thousand of Armenian citizens claimed asylum in the European Union countries for the last two years, chairperson of the Migration Service under Territorial Administration Ministry, Irina Davtyan, said when presenting a programme "Prevention of illegal migration to Belgium through informing of Armenian society", 8 May.

Geoteam CJSC is pleased to announce that the joint project between themselves and the Football Federation of Armenia has received the UEFA HatTrick Award in the ''Popular Football'' nomination as "The Best Grassroots Project", among 53 countries.

Armenian Minister of Sport and Youth Hrachya Rostomyan, the last member of the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) in the Government, will shortly leave the Government. Rostomyan has said at the Ministry that he will resign soon.

At its today's session the Armenian parliament made alterations and amendments to the law "On Alternative service" and "On application of Criminal Code" in the second and final reading.

Head of the Nairi Regional Police Office Karen Hayrapetyan was found dead on the tomb of his father, Thursday, the Police press-service told ArmInfo.

"They say it is in a bad condition but it has a high architectural value as an example of Soviet modernism," President of the Union of Architects of Armenia Mkrtych Minasyan told journalists on Monday.

The Chinese language is becoming more and more popular in Armenia, and the number of those which want to study it, is growing year by year, a representative of Armenia's Foreign Ministry, Ashot Voskanyan, said during the event dedicated to the Chinese Language Day at UN Office in Armenia, 26 April.

A group of pilots and engineering technicians of Armenian Airlines are holding an action of protest in front of the residence of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.

Chief of the Armenian Police Vladimir Gasparyan has reprimanded the policeman that was on duty during the beating of ilur.am journalist Hakob Karapetyan. His immediate superior has also been reprimanded, while the deputy head of the Nor Nork Police Department has been dismissed.

The construction in the center of Yerevan has found itself in the focus of the activists' attention again. Concerned with the plans to erect 2 multi-storey hotels near the Northern Avenue, the civil initiative "Save Yerevan" demands stopping the construction in the center of Yerevan.

Armenians worldwide commemorate over 1.5 million victims of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey today, on April 24.

Haypost has enlarged its vehicle fleet with new vehicles worth $380,000, invested by the company's concessionary, haypost Trust management B.V.

Haypost is negotiating with the State Income Committee of Armenia for being able to carry out the customs clearance of parcels received from abroad at its offices, Director of Haypost Trust Management B.V. Juan Pablo Gechidjian told journalists on Tuesday.

The protesters handed their letter to Sargsyan's Administration. In their letter, the protesters ask the President to provide them with holograms so that they could sell their old goods. After that the owners of the stores will obey the law and will not sell their compact discs without holograms.

Haypost has launched its new Call Center intending to increase the level of the service and customer interactions at all levels, "Haypost" CJSC press-service reported.

The earthquake in Armenia was felt in the territory of Armenia as well.

The weather changed drastically overnight and resulted in snowfall in some regions in Armenia, the Ministry of Transport and Communications reported.

Dendrological parks should be created simultaneously with major motorways in Yerevan, Hovhanness Tokmajyan, the Republican candidate to the Elders' Council of Yerevan (3rd in the party list) told media, Tuesday. He said that it is necessary to chose the trees species that best of all accumulate heavy metals and dust. To improve the environment, it is necessary to improve the transport system, he said.