Yerevan, Armenia News

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.

Gagik Khachatrian, the controversial chief of Armenia's tax and customs services, has not abused his position to enrich himself or his relatives, according to a state anti-graft body that has investigated corruption allegations leveled against him.

In an about-face condemned by the opposition, the ruling Republican Party of Armenia blocked on Monday the launch a new parliamentary inquiry into the 2008 deadly post-election violence in Yerevan.

Armenia granted Russia's Gazprom giant ownership of a pipeline supplying limited amounts of natural gas from Iran under pressure from Moscow, a senior Armenian pro-government lawmaker said on Tuesday.

YEREVAN, May 21. /ARKA/. Arman Barseghyan, Ameriabank's director in charge of retail banking transactions, told journalists on Tuesday that the bank's retail portfolio is expected to grow 15% for the first six months of this year from $70 million to more than $80 million.