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YEREVAN, JANUARY 19, ARMENPRESS: The “Tartu” non-governmental organization has been conducting for two years a “Pyunik” cultural program for juvenile delinquents and women population at Abovian correction facility on funds, donated by the Open Society Institute. In the frameworks of the program the lessons of folk song-dance, computer, fine arts, theater art, and now pottery lessons are being organized. The fine arts, pottery and other works of art of the prisoners were exhibited in Yerevan, and in November-December of 2003 in Budapest, Brussels and New-York. The chairman of the organization…

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YEREVAN. Within 11 months of 2003, 2716 purchase-and-sale transactions of agricultural lands were registered in Armenia. Press-Secretary of the State Committee of Real estate Lusine Nazaryan told ARMINFO.

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YEREVAN-Arminfo. Alexey Miller, Board Chairman, “Gasprom” OJSC, held a meeting at the company’s head office today with Director General of the “ArmRosgasprom” CJSC Karen Karapetian.The sides discussed the current situation with gas supply to Armenia and gas injection into the Abovyan underground gas storage, the results and plans of work of the “ArmRosgasprom” CJSC, issue of gas supply to Armenia in 2004, and a long-term strategy of supplying gas to the country.

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YEREVAN. A new order of export to the USA was discussed today in the course of a seminar organized by the USDA Marketing Assistance Program (MAP) in the town of Abovyan, Kotayk region, Armenia.

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  YEREVAN, April 23 (Noyan Tapan).   The World Bank Yerevan Office and the Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation – Armenia (OSIAF) announced the results of the Small Grants Program-2003. Eight Armenian non-profit, non-government organizations were selected finalists to receive grant awards. The amount of awards totals $80,000. In total, 169 project proposals were received from NGOs from all over Armenia.

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YEREVAN, AUGUST 6, ARMENPRESS: Residents of Garni village, Kotayk province, had a good opportunity to deal with issues related to the registration of vital statistics, without even having to leave their community. Regional civil registry office employees came to the village and completed necessary registrations last Friday, August 1 in the Municipality office, IFES/Armenia Public Outreach said  

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YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 24, ARMENPRESS: The prison population in Abovyan correction facility has drastically decreased and now there are only 100 convicts, mainly juvenile delinquents and women. For comparisons some years ago it had 450 convicts.

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YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 24, ARMENPRESS: The Armenian Justice Ministry has registered 52 religious organizations as legal entities, four of them are the Armenian branches of foreign organizations, the department for the registration of public organizations, non-commercial legal entities and media outlets of the Armenian agency for state registration has told our correspondent.

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