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Prisoner on Hunger Strike Promised to be Treated in Civilian Hospital
"Voskanyan said that he has health issues, and so that they are properly treated, he wants to be moved to a civilian hospital and he is willing to pay for it...Read More »
Yerevan University Rector Failed to Subvert Student Rally: News.am
Attempts by State Engineering University of Armenia (SEUA) Rector Ara Avetisyan to subvert the Feb. 20 demonstration against the new mandatory pension system... Read More »
Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway to be Completed by Early 2015
Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway is important for the entire region. It might be launched at the end of 2014 or early 2015, said the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan...Read More »
Armenian Government to Establish Commission to Check Caloric Value of Gas
The Armenian government decided to create a commission to check the caloric value of the gas consumed in the country.Read More »
Price of Public Transportation Fare Won’t be Finalized Before April: Newspaper
A commission to discuss the price of the public transportation fare in Yerevan might convene at the end of February or early March, the commission chair...Read More »
‘We Are Also in Maidan’: Yerevan Activists Show Their Support for Ukrainian Demonstrators
After the clashes in Kiev yesterday, a rally "We are also in Maidan" was organized today in Yerevan, Armenia, to express support for demonstrators in Ukraine's capital.Read More »
Gazprom Armenia Measures Caloric Value of Gas, Satisfied with Results
There are no problems with the caloric value of the gas supplied to Armenia. The only problem is the high price of gas, concluded the leaders of several NGOs...Read More »
Armenian Prisoner Removes Stitches on Mouth, Ends Hunger Strike
Artur Papikyan, an inmate at Goris Penitentiary who on Feb. 13 sewed his mouth shut and declared a hunger strike, has ended his hunger strike and removed the stitches on his mouth.Read More »
Analyzing Armenian President’s Speech is Pointless: Opinion
Regardless of how radical Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukyan's speech will be, regardless of whether opposition or those that consider themselves...Read More »
Investigation into Beating and Deaths of Soldiers Completed: Reprimands All Around
According to further orders by Armenia's defense minister, dismissed from his post was chief of the military unit's medical service, Capitain Arman Tadevosyan...Read More »