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Armenia's Antitrust Agency Displays Biased Approach To Companies To Disadvantage Of Consumers

Edit Topix 17 Mar 2016
ARMENIA'S ANTITRUST AGENCY DISPLAYS BIASED APPROACH TO COMPANIES TO DISADVANTAGE OF CONSUMERS YEREVAN, March 16. /ARKA/. Armenia's antitrust agency is not focused on protection of consumers' rights, Babken Pipoyan, chairman of the Informed and Protected Consumer NGO said Tuesday at a news conference ... ....

Armenia's Nonfoods Market Out Of Government's Control

Edit Topix 25 Feb 2016
EXPERT. ARMENIA'S NONFOODS MARKET OUT OF GOVERNMENT'S CONTROL YEREVAN, February 24. /ARKA/. Armenia's nonfoods market is out of government's control, Babken Pipoyan, the head of the Informed and Protected Consumer nongovernmental organization, said on Wednesday ... ....

Armenia votes to curb presidential powers in disputed referendum

Edit The Guardian 07 Dec 2015
Result of controversial poll denounced by opposition groups who say real aim is to keep current leader in power beyond term limits. Armenians have voted to curb presidential powers in a disputed referendum, sparking protests from the opposition which says the reforms are aimed at keeping the ruling elite in power ... Related. No, thanks. Armenia's opposition rallies against referendum ... — Babken DerGrigorian (@Babken) December 6, 2015 ... 0 ... ....

9,000 Armenians flood Yerevan over steep hike in electricity tariff

Edit Press TV 25 Jun 2015
Over 9,000 demonstrators have taken to the streets of Armenian capital Yerevan in protest of the sharp rise in electricity costs and police violence ... “What we demand from the government concerns each family in Armenia," said another protester ... Wrong. They baptized new generation of activists," a researcher at the London School of Economics, Babken DerGrigorian, posted on twitter ... ....

#ElectricYerevan Electric Rate Hike Protest Continues Despite Violent Mass Arrest

Edit Revolution News 24 Jun 2015
Armenia, Europe. Tweet. 0. Share. 0. Pin. 0. +1. 0. TOTAL SHARES 0. Live Video Feed. Armenia – Last week, Electricity Networks of Armenia, the company that owns and manages Armenia’s electricity grid, raised electricity prices for households by 17-22 percent ... From an activist friend in yerevan, in the protest zone. ...   ... Happening now ... — Babken DerGrigorian (@Babken) June 23, 2015 ... — Babken DerGrigorian (@Babken) June 23, 2015 ... Tweet....

'Electric Yerevan' protesters dig in as tensions flare in Armenia

Edit Yahoo Daily News 24 Jun 2015
Hundreds of demonstrators in the Armenian capital ignored police calls to disperse on Wednesday, digging in for a new day of protests against electricity price hikes and police violence ... "Our ranks will grow," said another young protester, Anait Kazarian ... Wrong. They baptized new generation of activists," wrote Babken DerGrigorian, a researcher at the London School of Economics, on Twitter ... mkh-im/as/rob. ....

Many young Americans want to build a new Armenia

Edit The Charlotte Observer 21 Apr 2015
Derelict factories dot the landscape in Armenia, remnants of a failed privatization process after the Soviet Union’s collapse gave birth to an independent nation. Outside the capital, towns are run-down, villages depopulated and the farmland fallow, with only a third of the arable land cultivated ... Yet there’s a bright spot ... Babken DerGregorian, 29, got his citizenship papers two weeks ago so that he could take part in local politics ... ....
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