Yerevan, Armenia News

YEREVAN, May 24. /ARKA/. The new gas prices for Armenian consumers will come into force on July 7-10, head of the country's Public Services Regulatory Commission Robert Nazaryan said.

The ANC based its claim on the difference in Margaryan's declared property and income submitted in 2005 and 2013, showing that it has increased from some $17,500 eight years ago to up to $10 million today.

YEREVAN PRESS CLUB WEEKLY NEWSLETTER MAY 17-23, 2013 HIGHLIGHTS: "PRESS CLUB" ABOUT QUALITY OF SOAP OPERAS AND ENTERTAINING TV SHOWS SECURITY AGENCIES AGAIN IMPEDE WORK OF JOURNALISTS IDC CALLS TO ADDRESS ISSUE OF LEGAL PROTECTION FROM NON-PUBLIC INSULT PRINT MEDIA ARE CONCERNED WITH THEIR COPYRIGHT VIOLATIONS "PRESS CLUB" ABOUT QUALITY OF SOAP ... (more)

PanARMENIAN.Net - As part of a U.S. sponsored workshop on nuclear energy , Ambassador John Heffern witnessed the first ever remote connection to a nuclear reactor in the United States on May 23.

YEREVAN, May 23./ARKA/. The decision of Armenian Economy Ministry to install two composting toilets, in Yerevan and Syunik region, valued at 100 million drams was ineffective.

Armenia - Relatives of Lyuks Stepanian, a soldier killed by a fellow conscript on May 15, demonstrate on a highway 50 kilometers north of Yerevan, 18May2013.

Orange Armenia, a wholly owned subsidiary of France Telecom-Orange, has launched an unlimited voice calls plan, dubbed 'With each other', which enables users to create a 'community' with up to three other mobile users to talk on an unlimited basis for per day.

YEREVAN, May 23. /ARKA/. Areximbank Gazprombank Group pays special attention to operational risk management, the bank's press service reported.

YEREVAN, May 22./ARKA/. Some 6.5 tons of the whitefish remains in Armenia's Lake Sevan, and this figure is dwindling year over year, said Bardukh Gabrielyan, director of Zoology and Hydro ecology Research Center of the National Academy of Sciences.

The Armenian government is discussing with Russian officials ways of subsidizing the increased cost of Russian natural delivered to Armenia, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Armen Movsisian said on Wednesday.

A journalist of Yerevan-based Aravot.am today asked lawmaker Mher Sedrakyan, a member of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia faction, why he had voted against the initiative to create an ad hoc committee to look into the deadly clashes of March 1, 2008.

Armenia's Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan is presently heading to Mrgashat village, one of the hail-stricken communities in the country's western Armavir province.

YEREVAN, May 22./ARKA/. Diversified energy supply resources in Armenia will ensure energy security and meet the domestic demand, said John Heffern, U.S. ambassador to Armenia, on Wednesday.

YEREVAN, May 22./ARKA/. Yerevan City Hall is summing up the results of the Best Brand for Yerevan contest, Novosti-Armenia reported.

"Hraparak" reports on dramatic protests that were held on Saturday by relatives of an Armenian army soldier who was shot and killed by a fellow conscript for still unclear reasons this month.

Organizer of the concert of the world-famous Spanish opera singer Montserrat Caballe in Yerevan, Vahagn Gevorgyan denied information about the singer's planned performance in the occupied Azerbaijani territories, Novosti-Armenia reported.

Famous opera singer Montserrat Caballe will perform at the State Youth Philharmonic Orchestra of Armenia in occupied Azerbaijani territories and in Yerevan, News.am reported.

YEREVAN, May 21./ARKA/. Great Britain supports the peace-building efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group concerning the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said at the meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian in London.

YEREVAN, May 21. / ARKA /. On Monday prime minister Tigran Sargsyan presented his government's plan of actions for 2013-2017 to parliament's consideration.

Armenia's Administrative Court refused on Monday to invalidate the official results of the May 5 municipal elections in Yerevan, throwing out an appeal by Raffi Hovannisian's opposition bloc.