YEREVAN. – Prosperous Armenia Party Chairman Gagik Tsarukyan raised the natural gas prices at his natural gas stations in Artik city, Zhamanak daily reports.

“A resident, who called the [Zhamanak] editorial from Artik, was saying that the [natural] gas stations in their region belong primarily to Tsarukyan, and when people ask—while pumping gas—why the prices have increased, the [natural gas station] workers say Russia has already increased the price of gas being supplied to Armenia.    

But the gas prices have not changed as of yet. Zhamanak attempted to get, from Tsarukyan’s spokeswoman Iveta Tonoyan, a comment as to why the gas prices have increased in Artik. But she did not respond to our phone calls,” Zhamanak writes.