The Armenian Parliament has approved the initiative to create an interim parliamentary committee for inquiring into the last gas deals with Russia. 

 Despite huge financial resources spent by Azerbaijan, its anti-Armenian propaganda and the attempts to develop a myth about the Khojalu genocide failed, the head of the "Initiative for prevention of xenophobia" NGO, Armine Adibekyan, said at today's press-conference.  

Armenia's accession to the Customs Union may bring down the retail prices for Russian oil products, Armenia's Deputy Energy and Natural Resources Minister Iosif Isayan told journalists on Wednesday.

The corruption scandal in Turkey, in which the names of the top leadership of the country figure, is developing more and more.  This is evidence of the decision of the Americans to remove Erdogan from power, Armenian political expert, Sargis Hatspanyan, said at today's press-conference, and added that the recent telephone conversation between Erdogan and his son just poured oil on flames.
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 Member of Prosperous Armenia Party Vardan Bosyanjyan wonders why US Ambassador in Armenia John Heffern is so active in supporting the Armenian Government's compulsory accumulative pension project.

Taking advantage of its monopoly in the market of online payment systems, the local Idram Company misleads users gaining extra profits from artificially created huge difference in the rates of exchange. 

Why do you think the sabotage attacks on the Armenian-Azeri and Karabakh-Azeri borders have become so frequent? What prevents Russia, the main mediator in the Karabakh peace process, from exerting efforts to suppress them?  

 Some 41,770 births (22,200 boys and 19,570 girls) were registered in Armenia in 2013 (1.7% less than in 2012), with the birth rate having dropped by 0.2% to 13.8 per mille.  

 Armenia considers cooperation with Europe as one of its foreign political priorities. The Republic will continue the course of closer EU integration with due regard for international commitments, Samvel Farmanyan, Co-Chair of the Armenia-EU Commission for Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation, said in the Armenian National Assembly on Tuesday.   

Supporting the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic means contributing to the final establishment of peace in the South Caucasus, French parliamentarians, members of the France-Karabakh friendship group say in an article published in Le Monde.   

On Feb 23 the Beirut-based Armenian Surb Nshan Church held a service to commemorate the Sumgait massacre victims and Gurgen Margaryan, who was brutally killed by Azeri officer Ramil Safarov in Budapest.   

RESO insurance company is facilitating the procedure of provision of motor third party liability (MTPL) insurance payments and reducing the time of receiving the relevant written notification, the company's Marketing and PR Department told ArmInfo.    

HSBC Bank Armenia, Ardshininvestbank and Ameriabank are still Top 3 banks of Armenia by net profits for 2013: 8 bln drams ($19.7 mln), 6.5 bln drams ($16 mln), and 6.2 bln drams ($15.2 mln), respectively. ACBA-Credit Aghricole Bank is on the 4th position with 5,1 bln drams net profits and INECOBANK ranks the 5th with 4.893 bln drams. VTB Bank (Armenia) is on the 6th position with an insignificant different - 4.891 bln drams.  

The monthly revenue of Armenia's IT sector amounts to 20 mln USD, CEO of the Union of IT Enterprises Karen Vardanyan said at a press conference on Monday. 

 Deputy of the National Assembly of Armenia, press-secretary of the Prosperous Armenia Party, Tigran Urikhanyan, has come forward with a statement because of switching off the water supply system of Araratcement plant. He said that "some men, which introduced themselves as ecologists", accompanied by policemen, closed the pump station of the channel towards the plant and nearby settlements, and in fact, directed water resources to Azerbaijan. 

The problems around Nairit Plant should be published but they should not be politicized, Armenian Minister of Energy and Nature Protection Armen Movsisyan said at today's parliamentary debates. He pointed out that Nairit was one of the industrial giants of Armenia during both Soviet and post-Soviet time. "Nairit has 2,500 employees. Of course, there are some problems.  They constantly say that the Government wants to drive the Plant to bankruptcy. If we wanted to do that, we would have done it 3-4 years ago, because we had all the prerequisites for that. We would have paid the salary arrears, which were much lower at that time. But we realize that the real value of the Plant is its employees, not the equipment", said Movsisyan.  

 Speaker of Armenian Parliament Hovik Abrahamyan considers the switch to the compulsory accumulative pension system to be an excellent reform. In the meantime, he expressed readiness to revise any provisions of the relevant law.     

The Armenian Parliament considered on Tuesday the initiative to form an interim committee for inquiring into the sale of the plant, its economic inefficiency and inability to repay its debts.

Environmentalists continue expressing concerns about the Ayrum tailing dump.  According to Chairman of the Green Union of Armenia Hakob Sanasaryan, the tailings have come very close to the local road and may well cause its collapse.

The parliamentary majority represented by the Republican Party has no intention to settle the problems in the gas and transport systems. Setting up an ad hoc committee on gas issues, the ruling Republican Party of Armenia just piling up issues to wash out the major problem, Levon Zurabyan, Head of the Armenian National Congress Faction, said in the Parliament, Tuesday.