Member of Parliament Harutyun Pambukyan sent a letter to the editor of Hetq which reads, “On June 7 at the Friday Club, during a press conference organized by you and Karen Kanlaryan, the editor of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation’s newspaper Droshak, you made a statement that directly relates to me. Specifically, you stated, “Harutyun Pambukyan’s company Max Wood’s vehicles uproot the walnut trees in Kashatagh, then process...
In 1996 Tigran Kyureghyan left Yerevan for the liberated territories of Nagorno-Karabakh, took up residence in Karvatchar, and implemented projects aimed at resettling the villages. Today he and his family live in Berdzor and he works on a variety of development programs in Kashatagh.
General Haykaz Baghmanyan has been involved in a series of scandals throughout the years. Numerous stories have been published in the newspapers, but to no avail; the general’s affairs only improved, his business flourished. His military commander’s jeep can be seen almost every day parked near different cafes and restaurants in Yerevan, or near the petrol station he owns.
An interview with Gagik Arzumanyan, Executive Director of the Armenian Copper Programme (CJSC)
Former Minister for Environmental Protection Vardan Ayvazyan issued 7 licenses on the same day - December 19, 2005 - for the exploration of 4 sectors of the Hankavan mine area and 3 sectors of Meghradzor in the province of Kotayk, to a company called Interier, founded by his assistant Tigran Krmoyan.
The isolation facing the Armenian village of Jiliza, which straddles the border with Georgia, lately became even more pronounced when Armenian and Georgian border guards began prohibiting residents from their respective countries to make the crossing over to the other side. There are seven Armenian villages on the Georgian side and residents of these villages have familial links with Jiliza.
“...Upon publishing the article (They're Getting Rid of the Indians and Bringing In the Russians) further investigation revealed that the Madneuli Stock Company purchased all the shares of the Golden Ore, LLC in December 2006. This transaction was duly noted on April 23, 2007 in the Federal Registry's Regional Branch and was correspondingly recorded in the participants' Reeystr (a government-related department also attached to the Ministry...
On May 25 of this year, the Economic Court, Judge A. Sargsyan presiding, issued a ruling (already in force) which could signal a turning point in the operations of the Central Bank (CB). This ruling declared void fines imposed through a series of CB decisions against VTB-Armenia Bank executive director Alexander Vartanov.
Sayat Melkonyan, a resident of Yerevan, is a specialist in ethnographic dance and song. He's worked with the “Akunk” troupe and has directed his own “Karin” and “Mush” ensembles. With his wife Karineh he also gave lessons in ethnographic dance and song. Eight years ago Sayat and his family moved to the New Shahumyan region of Gharabakh.
The two-year ongoing battle between the Ararat Gold Recovery Company (AGRC, LLC) , owned by the Indian billionaire Anil Agarwal, and the Government of the Republic of Armenia (ROA), appears to have entered its final phase. This is borne out by the statement released by the Press Secretary of the Prosecutor General's Office on August 2 nd confirming that on the same day Gagik Jhangiryan, the Deputy Chieh Prosecutor, lodged a legal action with...
“I'm from Yerevan, I was born and raised there, but now I'm a Karabakhtsi,” said Ashot Simonyan from Movsesashen.
For eight years Iskhan Hovannisyan has been the village mayor of Verin Shen in the region of Nor Shahumyan. He recounts that when water was piped into the village ten years ago it was forcasted to serve the needs of eighteen families. Today, the amount of water isn't sufficient. There are certain neighborhoods that receive no water at all.
The village of Tzar is different from other villages in the liberated territories not only because it has served as a princely royal seat for hundreds of years but also due to the fact that it has received a 20 million dram loan from the government. That loan has been used to purchase a truck and build livestock sheds to shelter the village's herd of young bulls. This development loan was given for a three -year period at an annual rate of 0.6%....
On May 12, 2006, the village of Gihut in the Kashatagh region lost its electricity.
One of ten-year-old Boris's chores is to take the cows out every morning.
Excavations at Tigranakert were suspended on June 16 (See also: Excavations for 2007 Begin in Tigranakert, article in Armenian, as well as Tigranakert). Hamlet Petrosyan, head of the archeological group working in Nagorno Karabakh, made the official announcement about the cessation.
An Interview With Serzh Amirkhanyan, Director of the Office For Migration, Refugees and Resettlement Attached to the Government of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
On June 1, the Akhtala Mine Enrichment Plant (AMEP) owned by Metal Prince ltd. closed down.
Shalua is one of the few villages in Kashatagh where the Azeris were never able to destroy the local church.
Stretching two fingers apart Yura from Himnashen says, “Even though the beginning of the world starts here this is how far we are removed from the globe”.
In 1985 Monte was in France.
An interview with Ernest Ghevondyan, Head of the Kashatagh Administration
When media outlets published articles concerning a drunken Minister of the Environment Vardan Ayvazyan shooting at seagulls with a pistol from the Sevan coast, he immediately and repeatedly denied the news.
Artsakh Bunyatyan, Chief Physician at the Berdzor Hospital, thinks that people who live in Kashatagh deserve special status.
I asked Emilya, who has fifteen children, whether she remembers all of their names.
Chaplain Bedros Hajian founded the Armenian American Christian Outreach in 1998. A unique facility, it specializes in the reintegration of prisoners.
In the common room of a California prison, a toilet and a man urinating could be seen through the bars.
“I'm here temporarily,” said a fairly well known director when he saw me. Almost every Armenia from Armenia in Los Angeles lives in a state of confusion.
“The volumes of foreign investments in the fields of mineral resource industry and metallurgy in Armenia in 2006 amounted to $110 million, which is comparable to the last year's showing,” stated a press release by Arminfo on April 6, 2007.
As we have reported, Minister of Nature Protection Vardan Ayvazyan has registered the majority of his mines in the names of his relatives, friends and employees.
We have reported recently that the Minister of Nature Protection has given several deposits with total mineral resource content of about 3 billion tons to members of his own family and is now trying to sell them off.
A considerable portion of the land in the provincial region of Armavir has been bought by officials and oligarchs.
Every minister in Armenia considers the agency entrusted to him or her to be his or her personal business project.
Hetq received a letter from Gideon Moalem, resident of Jerusalem, in which he voices his displeasure with a gay nightclub located in a building owned by the Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem.
An interview with Jirair Sefilyan's wife, Nanor Barseghyan
On March 6th, the government of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) officially dismissed Hamlet Khatchatryan as the Regional Administrative Governor of Kashatagh. Ernest Ghevontyan, a former leader of the "Artsakh" Committee, was designated as his replacement.
Armenian Member of Parliament Aleksandr Sargsyan is selling a house in Los Angeles.
The green zone that once existed the buildings at 19 Aghayan and 56 Teryan Streets has now become a construction site.
On September 6, 2006 Shahen Hovasapyan, who headed the State Tax Service's Department of Investigation, was murdered in his car by a remote-controlled explosive device.
On September 6, Shahen Hovasapyan, who headed the State Tax Service's Department of Investigation, was murdered in his car by a remote-controlled explosive device.
Pankaj Joshi, an Indian citizen, first visited Armenia in December 2003. He received a three-month visa to Armenia at that time, but stayed for exactly one year, remaining in the country illegally for a number of months.
In February 2006, Anush Zakharyants, who was serving time at the Abovyan criminal detention center after being convicted of trafficking, “escaped” with collective help from the Ministry of Justice and the Prosecutor General's office.
The August heat had dried the grass. The temperature outside was 40 degrees Celsius, but it was a bit cooler in the dugouts. The enemy posts lay a few hundred meters ahead.
Mihran Mahmouzian has been implementing charity projects in Kashatagh for the last seven years. He voiced his concern at facts outlined in earlier articles of Hetq, and arrived in Armenia in September, spending time in Kashatagh as well. He assessed the situation in Kashatagh as catastrophic. The following is an interview with Mihran Mahmouzian.
Mets Tagher, a village in the Hadrut region, is different from all the other villages in Karabakh primarily because it has a teahouse. It seems a luxury of sorts when viewed next to the inaccessible and narrow streets entering and passing through the village.
A group of Diaspora Armenians, concerned about the situation in Kashatagh, sent letters to the presidents of the Republics of Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh in September.
In August 2003, US citizen George Najarian appealed to the president, prosecutor general, and foreign minister of Armenia informing them that Armenian citizen Grigor Igityan had deceitfully taken possession of plots of land with buildings and a photo shop he owned in Yerevan.
Aradjamugh, a new village in the Hadrut region, was built at the initiative of the Tufenkian Foundation. Settlers have now occupied eighteen houses in the village.
Armenia's State committee on Cadastre has lost the state 1.5 billion drams. At least this is the official figure that was circulated by the Office of the Prosecutor General on September 5, 2006. According to our source within the law enforcement agencies, the real figure exceeds 3 billion drams.
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