Armenian freedom-fighters are expected to rally against the policy of the incumbent authorities on 1 March, they announced in a press conference on 25 February. 

 Anelik Bank has brought in a new card credit product - "Simply-Quickly", which differs from the earlier introduced similar product of the bank by absence of a requirement of the mortgage security. 

 Armenia decided to access the Customs Union for security reasons rather than economic benefits, said Laure Delcour, a French political scientist, in an interview with RFE/RL Armenia Service.

 President of Armenia charged to punish the persons blamed for violations when making gas agreements with Russia, speaker of the Armenian parliament, Hovik Abrahamyan, said when voicing the position of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia on setting up of a temporary commission to study problems in gas supply. 

 President Serzh Sargsyan should tender his resignation if he does not want repetition of the Ukrainian Euromaidan in Armenia, a member of the opposition Armenian National Congress, Gurgen Egiazaryan, said at today's press-conference. 

The Special Investigation Service (SIS) of Armenia has initiated a criminal case on the fact of resistance to activity of journalist Ani Gevorgyan and violence against her, the SIS told ArmInfo.

 On 25 February 2014, Artur Baghdasaryan, Secretary of the National Security Council and Ambassador Traian Hristea, Head of the EU Delegation to Armenia, co-chaired the 15th Board Meeting of the EU Advisory Group in Armenia. The EU Advisory Group presented its Quarterly Report for October-December 2013, an updated Needs Assessment Report and a work plan for January- April 2014. 

Former deputy head of the National Security Service of Armenia (NSS) Romik Haroutiunyan has fled to Romania after official internal investigation was launched against him following his resignation.

The activity of the parliamentary gas commission should be transparent in order to avoid the Armenian Government's pressure, Aram Manukyan, Secretary of the Armenian National Congress Faction, said in Parliament on Monday.     

 "The fact that Armenia's parliamentary majority rejected the opposition's offer to set up an interim gas commission was dictated by the need to display a balanced approach to that problem", David Harutyunyan, Head of the Armenian Parliamentary Commission for State and Legal Affairs, said on Monday when presenting the proposal of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) to set up a similar gas commission.  

The Armenian Dram (AMD) devaluation in early 2014 is due to the Russian Ruble (RUR) depreciation, Artur Stepanyan, member of the Council of the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA), said at today's press conference when replying to ArmInfo's question.   

To assess the expediency of Armenia's accession to the Customs Union with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, it is necessary to conduct a comparative analysis of the approaches to the customs policy implemented in Russia and Armenia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, second president of Armenia Robetr Kocharyan said in an interview with 2rd.am. 

There are all prerequisites for re-occurrence of Ukrainian developments in Armenia, political expert Yervand Bozoyan said at a press conference in Yerevan. 
He thinks that when Viktor Yanukovich came to power, the Ukrainian people expected the situation to improve, but Yanukovich concentrated all the wealth of Ukraine in his relative's hands instead of resolving the existing problems of the country. This caused the discontent of all social strata of the Ukrainian society.

 The Generalised Scheme of Preferences+ will be preserved in Armenia's trade with the European Union, MP from the Republican Party of Armenia Gagik Minasyan told ArmInfo on Monday when asked to comment on the apprehensions expressed by the former President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan in his lart interview.

 During its Monday session the Armenian Parliament observed a minute of silence in the memory of the people killed during the last clashes in Ukraine.

Every post-Soviet country should follow the example of Ukraine, political expert, Ruben Mehrabyan, said at today's press-conference. 

The Armenian Parliament will shortly consider the projects to create interim committees for inquiring into the last gas deals with Russia and the March 1 2008 events.

 ArmInfo has monitored the retail prices of oil products in Armenia and registered certain reduction of prices that had been left unchanged since the summer of 2012.

The Prime Ministers of the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation, Tigran Sargsyan and Dmitry Medvedev, discuss the issues related to the preparatory works of the Yerevan's joining the Customs Union, the economic cooperation, as well as the organization of the donors' conference, Dmitry Medvedev said at the meeting with Tigran Sargsyan, as RIA Novosti reported.

The Ukrainian scenario will not be repeated in Armenia, the head of the ruling RPA parliamentary faction, Galust Sahakyan, told Arminfo correspondent.