Armenia’s Human Rights Defender Karen Andreasyan will leave for Moscow on July 21 on a working visit, and it is expected that he will visit Hrachya Haroutyunyan, the Armenian truck driver now being held in a Moscow jail on charges of negligent homicide.
This morning a score of protesters pushed past police to sit down on the steps leading to the Yerevan Municipality to oppose transportation price hikes that go into effect tomorrow, Commuters using buses and minivans will have to pay 150 (36 U.S. cents) as opposed to 100 AMD, while trolleybus passengers will pay 100 (24 cents) as opposed to 50 AMD.
U.S. Ambassador to Ankara Francis Ricciardone recently climbed to the top of Mt. Ararat, telling reporters it was a dream he longed wished to achieve. It took Ricciardone three days to reach the 5,137 meter peak of Ararat.
In State Interests Protection Department of Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Armenia the study of RA Supervisory Board's annual report of 2012 is in process. In the result of the study 6 cases were separated until July 17, 2013 and were sent to the General Investigation Department of RA Police to proceed in the order defined by the law.
The entire Badalyan family, two children and their parents, were killed on July 17 when their car hit a freight truck on the Moscow to Volgograd highway in Russia.
On July 18, U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John Heffern congratulated over 25 photographers and artists whose photographs and drawings won the embassy contest "Armenia and the Environment." The winning works were made into panels that are now hung on the outside embassy walls facing the embassy parking lot and Isakov Avenue.
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