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RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN ON OFFICIAL VISIT TO YEREVAN

SEPTEMBER 14. Russian President Vladimir Putin made an official visit to Yerevan today. Armenian President Robert Kocharyan welcomed the Russian president at the airplane ladder. After the national anthems of the two countries the presidents walked along the raw of honorable guard. After the solemn ceremony the presidents are expected to leave for the state summer-house on the bank of the Lake of Sevan, where they will held an informal talk. The main part of the visit is scheduled for September 15, when Vladimir Putin will visit the Mother See Holy Echmiadzin to meet Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II. Later the Russian president will put wreaths on the Memorial for Genocide victims of 1915 in the Ottoman Turkey. Vladimir Putin's negotiations with the Armenian president, as well as enlarged meetings of official delegations and a joint press-conference will be held in the afternoon. The Russian president will held a meeting in the Armenian National Assembly and will visit Yerevan State University to meet the professorial staff and the students. Later the Russian president will visit "Matenadaran", the Institute of Ancient Manuscripts. Then the two presidents will held a meeting in the House of receptions and discuss prospects for trade and economic cooperation with the Armenian and Russian businessmen. The delegation will return to Moscow on September 15 in the evening.

SEPTEMBER 14. Armenia's capital Yerevan will celebrate its 2783 anniversary. The traditional holiday Erebuni-Yerevan will be carried out in the Armenian capital on 6-13 Oct. This holiday is generally marked on the second Sunday of Oct, but this year the municipality of the capital declared holiday the full week. The history of Yerevan starts since the placement of the first stone of the Urartian castle of Erebuni. The ruins of this castle still remain in the southern part of Yerevan. Every day of the Erebuni-Yerevan holiday will have its thematic dedication. Thus, the first day - 6th Oct is held under the slogan "Yerevan in songs". In the evening a gala-concert will be organized under the open sky. New and old songs about Yerevan will be performed. The slogan of the second day, 7 Oct will be "This is Yerevan, this is my home". The opening of new playgrounds, bus stops, water sources, and, what is the most important, the new garden in the quarter Malatia-Sebastia will take place. Oct 8 is the Day of Nostalgia. The exhibition of displays of the Yerevan Museum of History, as well as ancient objects kept in houses of citizens will take place. The mayor Robert Nazaryan will invite the long-livers of Yerevan for a party. They will take part in contests on chess, draught and nardi after the party. The demonstration of Armenian movies of different years will be promoted in the cinema "Moscow". The 9 Oct is Day of Love Declaration". Young and old people will declare their love to their native city in the gallery "Hayart", in all schools of the city, in the Freedom square through their pictures, painting, songs and books. A spectacle with participation of the artist Armen Jigarkhanyan will be performed in the Karen Demirchyan Sport and Concert Center. 10 Oct morning the all-city review of the watering machines will be organized. In the Freedom square the Holiday of Flowers will take place. It will continue in the "Moscow" cinema and will grow slowly into a Holiday of Wine. The third holiday of this day will be the 60th anniversary of the Yerevan zoo. The 11 oct will be declared Day of Charity. The day will be dedicated to the patients of hospitals, old people's Houses, kindergartens. A day of open doors will be declared in city medical establishments. The 12 Oct will be Day of Pride. This day the citizens of Yerevan will remember all the best the capital can be proud of. The acceptation of the young people who finished secondary schools with gold medals and entered the high school will be organized in the municipality. The party in honor of the parents of the servicemen fallen in the Karabakh war will be carried out in the cultural center "Yerevan". The 13 Oct will be the Day of Yerevan. The exhibition of culinary will be carried out in the "Hayart" center. The dancing procession will he promoted in the Abovian street. Having reached the Republic square the dancers will open an evening concert which will finish in the late evening.

ARMENIAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONS IN MILITARY SPHERE ARE SPECIFIC AND RADICALLY DIFFERENT FROM RELATIONS OF MOSCOW AND YEREVAN IN ECONOMIC SPHERE, ARMENIA'S DEFENCE MINISTER THINKS

SEPTEMBER 14. Armenian-Russian relations in the military sphere are specific and radically different from relations of Moscow and Yerevan in the sphere of economy, Armenia's defence minister, secretary of the Security Council Serge Sargsyan told during the press-conference of Armenia's and Russia's foreign ministers. The Armenian minister once more stressed that Armenian-Russian if one tries to evaluate the bilateral cooperation in money, it will be clear that Russia helps us significantly. Only the total value of Armenian military students' charge free training in Russian Federation is $50 mln. Besides, Russian Active Air Defence complexes C-300 are disposed for a military mission. Serguey Ivanov: "It is not possible to measure the price of security, and how to evaluate expanses, concerning the defence capacity and the security in general".

DEMOCRATIC FATHERLAND PARTY INSISTS THAT ITS LEADER WAS ARRESTED ILLEGALLY

SEPTEMBER 14. Leader of the Democratic Fatherland Petros Makeyan was arrested illegally, members of the political council of the party said during a discussion of the internal political situation in the country today. To recap, Makeyan was detained in his flat Sept 7 evening and sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest by the court of first instance of Yerevan's Center-Nork Marash communities. Makeyan's comrades-in-arms say the police arrested him without any warrant for arrest and for search. They claim that Makeyan was beaten in the presence of his 17-year old daughter and his flat was made a mess. Member of the party's political council Goukas Megrabyan said the authorities made a gross violation by arresting Makeyan. They violated not only the Constitution but also provisions of a number of international conventions for human rights. "Since Robert Kocharyan usurped the power in 1998 the dictatorship of terror has been reigning in the country, first, on the sly, and after the Oct 27 act of terrorism openly," Megrabyan said. It should be noted that leader of the Liberal-Democratic party Vigen Khachatryan, leader of the Intellectual Armenia party Ovannes Tokmajyan and other representatives of the Armenian Pan National Movement, ruling the country formerly took part in the meeting. However, soon the participants in the meeting distracted from the subject of the discussion finding out that they have different views of the causes of the acts of terrorism in the United States. It took the organizers much effort to return the disputing oppositioners to the issue they had met for.