Yerevan, Armenia News

The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, traveled to the region on May 23-24 and met with Azerbaijani President Aliyev in Baku on 23 May, and Armenian President Sargsyan in Yerevan on 24 May, OSCE statement released on Friday says.

Britain's Prince Charles will travel to Armenia on Tuesday on what will be the first-ever visit to the country by a member of the British royal family organized by a London-based former Armenian prime minister.

Some 30 activists of the opposition Armenian National Congress again gathered outside the Prosecutor's Office demanding the release of detained ANC activist Tigran Arakelyan who was taken into custody after an August 2011 standoff with police in a Yerevan park.

Armenia's state utility regulators have revealed the scale of natural gas and electricity price rises that will come into effect soon because of the increased cost of gas imported from Russia.

The meeting of the Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will be held in Yerevan on Friday 31 May 2013 under the Armenian Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers.

Charles, Prince of Wales, will be visiting Armenia on May 28-30 at the invitation of "Yerevan, My Love" charitable foundation.

YEREVAN, May 24. / ARKA /. The second-largest Israeli airline Arkia will start operating regular flights between Tel Aviv and Yerevan from June, Marcelo Wende, the chief executive officer of Armenia's international airport Zvartnots told journalists today, adding that regular flights will help strengthen Armenian-Israeli ties.

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.

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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.