Economists say Armenia is unlikely to have another ‘Black Tuesday’ when [on March 3, 2009] its currency collapsed and panic buying began in Yerevan and elsewhere in the country. Yet, they say, the dram has been dethroned – and “that’s already the fact.”

Thomas de Waal, a British journalist, author and expert on the Caucasus, best known to Armenians as the author of a book on Karabakh, calls the conflict over the disputed land ‘dormant’ rather than ‘frozen’ because the prospect of renewed hostilities remains real.

On Tuesday (March 9) the Criminal Court of Appeal cut by half the seven-year sentence handed down in January for radical oppositional political figure Nikol Pashinyan, editor-in-chief of 'Haykakan Jamanak' (Armenian Times) daily.

Dashnak NA deputy Armen Rustamyan believes that the speeches made at the discussion over the Resolution on the Armenian Genocide held by the US House Foreign Affairs Committee are “an important lesson,” and Armenian deputies must draw a conclusion and later “to abstain from the ratification process.”

The opposition in Armenia is planning to file a lawsuit against ArmRosGazprom (ARG), the Russian-dominated national gas distribution company, over the “unprecedented and baseless hike in gas tariffs,” because the 37.5 percent hike in the natural gas price, according to the main opposition alliance, Armenian National Congress (ANC), “may be the last straw to make the public go into final bankruptcy.”

There is a one-storey house with 5 windows and a door right on the Armenian-Turkish border. Window frames have recently been given a fresh coat of white paint typical of provincial Soviet train stations. This little house is called Akhuryan Station of South-Caucasian Railroad.

The Armenian Ombudsman has raised concerns over two provisions in Armenia’s current law “On Human Organs and (or) Tissues Transplantation” which are contradictory and create conditions for “arbitrary interpretation, implementation and misuse.”

On Tuesday (March 2) Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan presented the electronic management system introduced in RA governmental entities, according to which henceforth all documents, circulating at the government and the adjacent bodies, will be in an online version, accessible and transparent.

Two years ago, this day (March 1) the bloodiest post-election clashes in the history of independent Armenia took place, when opposition supporters and police clashed, resulting in 10 deaths and dozens of injuries.

Natural gas prices will go up by 37.5 percent on April as was confirmed following a decision by a public utilities regulatory body on Friday to largely approve an Armenian gas monopoly’s hike bid.