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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Armenians Paid 40% More for Electricity in 2014 Than Last Year: Paper
In January 2014, Armenia's population consumed 359 million killowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, which exceeds the figure for last year only by 10%...Read More »
Yerevan Court Rejects Activist’s Appeal, Refuses to Persecute Guilty Party
The Court of First Instance of Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeytun Administrative Districts of Yerevan on Tuesday rejected activist Karo Yeghnukyan's complaint...Read More »
Man Accused of Supplying Karabakh Army with Buffalo Meat Paid $180 Thousand in Damages
Former director of Kapan's abattoir, Albert Ohanjanyan, accused of supplying the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army with buffalo meat instead of beef...Read More »
Armenian and Turkish Women for Peace: Art Contest Calls for Submissions
Society Without Violence NGO invites women over the age of 18 — photographers, journalists, painters, artists, human rights defenders, and activists — to take part in a contest...Read More »
Village Mayoral Elections in Armenia: Only One Candidate in 7 Rural Communities
On Mar. 9, residents of 40 rural communities in Armenia will vote for a new village mayor. In 7 of these communities, there remains only one candidate...Read More »