Manvel Sargsyan is Guest at Studio Hetq
A few score of citizen activists gathered today outside the gates of the National Assembly to protest any hike in natural gas rates.
Garegin Baghramyan, who heads the Rates Policy Unit of the Public Services Regulatory Commission, today announced that electricity prices would rise some 27% (7-8 AMD per 1 kilowatt hour), adding that he couldn't say when the rise would take effect.
By a vote of 76 to 41, the RA National Assembly minutes ago approved the government’s “program” for the next five years.
Speaking on behalf of the Prosperous Armenia Party, MP Stepan Margaryan today stated in parliament that his party could not support the government’s plan for the next five years.
Haygaz Khachikyan, mayor of the northern Armenian town of Akhtala, says he warned provincial authorities about the growing environmental dangers his community faces caused by the tailings dams owned by the Akhtala Enrichment Plant
Ashot Mirzoyan, President of the Consumers’ Assistance Center, today told reporters that the only way to avoid a gas price hike would be for the nation en-masse to not pay their utility bills.
Georgian Airways will begin scheduled daily flights from Yerevan to Tbilisi from June 1 to October 26.
After being grilled by MPs yesterday regarding on-again, off again, construction at Yerevan’s Pak Shouka (Closed Market), RA Minister of urban Construction Samvel Tadevosyan visited the site.
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