Main political events of last week started with April 5 interview of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan to Der Spiegel.

Concurrently to an increase in gas tariffs on April 1, 2010, prices at gas stations also went up, reaching AMD 200 per 1 kg instead of the previously established AMD 180. As a PanARMENIAN.Net correspondent was told at the transport department of Yerevan Mayor's Office and at the RA Ministry of Transport and Communication, transport workers have not requested price increase so far.

Saint Archangels (St Gevorg) Church was repaired and consecrated in the village of Tsira, Akhaltskha region. An Armenian church will be restored in Feodosia and one will be built in Malta. All three projects were initiated by Armenian communities. Meanwhile, both Armenian intellectual elite and ordinary people oppose the idea of building a church instead of Moscow cinema open-air hall.

Turkish Prime Minister’s special envoy Feridun Sinirlioglu’s visit to Armenia caused an inexplicable commotion in the political and expert levels, although such kind of visits before anticipated or scheduled meetings of Heads of State are an ordinary diplomatic practice. However, the passion of Armenian commentators to see some secret (or evil) intent in every move best shows how little information the society has on the Armenian-Turkish relations, being satisfied with “comments” contradicting both the essence and the content.

Yerevan’s National Academic Theater theaters resumed “Musa Ler” performance. It was attended by over 900 school students in one day and over 3000 in a month, proving students’ increased interest to the theater.

Boxing: The duel between Arthur Abraham (Germany) and Andre Dirrell (USA) ended in the second round of Super Six World Boxing Classic tournament. In the seventh round Dirrell managed to make several blows, one of them resulted in Abraham’ opened cut over his right eye. Realizing that he is losing on points, Abraham sent Dirrell down in the tenth round, but the judge considered knockdown an accidental fall. Dirrell slipped when he was hit by a glancing blow to the chin in the corner. Abraham hit him across the chin with a right hand and Dirrell couldn't continue. Referee Andy Cole disqualified Abraham for causing forbidden blow and a victory in battle went to Dirrell.

Number of internet users increased 47.75 times over the period of 1998-2008, according to bbcrussian.com. Thus, 4000 internet users were registered in Armenia in 1998, their number increasing to 30 000 the next year. As of 2008, 191 thousand internet users were registered in Armenia. Obviously, BBC Russia information service used statistical data provided by international electronic connection union to make the statistic report. Meanwhile Armenian experts repeatedly noted that the statistic data cited is not complete, as mobile internet users were not taken into account while composing the assessment.