Karen R. Hilliard, the USAID Mission Director to Armenia, says that this wasn’t a problem just 6-8 years ago but that the unrestricted growth of fish farms and unregulated water usage has made it one.
At first glance, it would appear that the fight is over $1 million. In reality, the Armenian registered Yukos CIS is a key to reveal the other companies of Yukos and to control their capital and shares. And that capital is in the millions of dollars.
It appears that SandbadTir INTL Transport, the Iranian company that has filed a bankruptcy lawsuit against Nairit Plant CJSC in Armenia, doesn’t have an official address.
Avtandil Martiashvili, the driver, had entered Armenia from Iran and was headed for Georgia. He was arrested on the spot and charged with drug smuggling. A Turkish citizen, Osman Oğurlu, was arrested several days later in Yerevan as an accomplice.
Georgi Elibekov, an Armenian member of the Georgian Dream political alliance has recently charged Bishop Vazgen Mirzakhanyan, Primate of the Armenian Apostolic Church Diocese of Georgia of mismanaging some US $940,000 allocated to the diocese by the Bidzina Ivanishvili Foundation.
In its continuing investigation into Armenia’s involvement in the illegal trafficking of endangered animal species, Hetq has learnt that two more bonobos (Pan paniscus) were imported into Armenia in 2012 in addition to the two already written about by Hetq.
With the goal of providing a systematic solution to issues of effective use of water resources in Ararat valley, the Ministry of Nature Protection of the Republic of Armenia (RA) is proposing amendments and additions to the RA Water Code, and the RA laws on the Republic of Armenia's National Water Program, on Licensing, and on State Tax.
While the Areg Art Union, located in the Akhalkalak village of Tourtskh, was officially registered on Dec. 31 of last year, it can’t start operating due to a lack of funds.
Nairit Plant employees today informed Hetq that they are not being allowed to join the protest outside the Armenian government building today. The doors are locked and employees are unable to leave the premises.
The lawyer of Turkish citizen Osman Oğurlu, who arrested as an accomplice in what Armenian law enforcement calls the largest drug bust in the country’s history, has spoken to Hetq about his client’s involvement in the Jan. 17 incident at the Meghri border crossing with Iran.
Priton Kenkebashvili, one of the two lawyers defending Ashot Sukiasyan, now being held in Tbilisi for extradition to Armenia, told Hetq that he’s been taken off the case by the person who hired him.
In the 2014 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) just released, Armenia has ranked 48th, with a score of 61.67, out of 178 countries surveyed.
According to a list provided Hetq by the Ministry of Nature Protection, only one animal included in the Red Book of endangered animal species has imported into Armenia within the past year - a jaguar (Pantera onca). The animal is said to have come from Georgia.
Armenian authorities now have forty days to present extradition papers to Georgia in order to return Sukiasyan who was arrested at Tbilisi International Airport on Friday after embarking from a flight from Istanbul.
Twelve families are locked in a legal battle with AgroHolding Armenia Ltd. over a piece of land in Yerevan’s Nor-Nork district.
Razmik Markaryan, the mayor of Kovsakan, a small town in the Artsakh district of Kashatagh that’s gone without water for the past three months, told Hetq that local authorities are working to resolve the issue.
The old boiler house adjacent to the Armenian Police Kentron division for many years served as a shelter for the homeless. However, ahead of the launch of the new police building and the president's visit, large numbers of homeless people were evacuated from the area.
Iranian company SandbadTir INTL Transport Co. Ltd. last November filed a lawsuit against Nairit Plant CJSC in Armenia, demanding the latter be declared bankrupt.
According to Hans Christian Kofoed Charitable Foundation Director Shavarsh Khachatryan, there are around 1,000 homeless people in Yerevan. In December 2013, the homeless shelter in the village of Haghtanak was moved to Vardashen and combined with the Danish-Armenian Hans Christian Kofoed Charitable Foundation. There are currently 100 homeless people staying at the shelter, which means only 10% of the homeless have temporary shelter. There...
Born in Etchmiadzin, Tevos grew up in Yerevan. He studied obstetrics and gynecology at the medical university, but never graduated. He was called to compulsory military service, and when he returned, he was unable to continue to studies as he needed to earn a living.
We were then informed that the police filed criminal charges against Artur Khachatryan, owner of Zoo Fauna Art, a company in the animal trade.
The doors to the main entrance of the newly constructed Armenian Church of Holy Transconfiguration in Moscow were closed on Jan. 6
Out of sight, out of mind…It’s sort of a mantra in Armenia, especially among government agencies. Take the case of the Ministry of Environemnt and its attitude to an endangered African bonobo monkey that recently showed up as an attraction in a local restaurant.
When it comes to the environment risks threatening Armenia’s Ararat Valley, Hetq has written extensively about large-scale fish farming and the drain they place on the underground aquifers.
A Georgian news outlet reports that police found a small cache of arms and ammunition on a house rooftop in the Akhalkalak region.
The three are Amundi Acba Asset Management, C-Quadrat Ampega Asset Management Armenia, and Capital Asset Management.
Garik Papoyan, a seventh generation Gyumri blacksmith, talks to me in that northern Armenian town’s dialect more akin to western than eastern Armenian.
A rug, a candlestick, and a photo album…These are the only items that Seda Ter-Gevorgyan was able to salvage from the ruins left in the wake of the earthquake that struck on December 7, 1988.
Anahit Sahradyan isn’t at all surprised when we knock at her door.
The sun was already setting over Gyumri and the warmth of the afternoon was fading fast.
Armenia now enjoys the dubious distinction of being a transit nation for endangered animals. These animals, from exotic African varieties listed in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species to those native to Indonesia, are being trafficked through Armenia without difficulty.
In an attempt to sell the mandatory pension fund, scheduled to start as of January 1, to the Armenian public, the Central Bank has bandied about the names of prominent international companies as managers.
Grigor Melkonian learnt the craft from his father, who learnt it from his father. Now 60, Grigor has been a tinsmith for 40 years.
Employees of the financially strapped Nayirit Rubber Plant in Yerevan have assembled outside the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, demanding a meeting with Minister Armen Movisisyan over unpaid back wages.
Angered by plans to build a third mini hydro plant in their community, Marts village residents and outside environmental activists blocked a section of the Marts-Vanadazor highway.
We have pulled out of one minority investment in the Armenian Development Bank.
Armenia’s rivers and streams are drying up. The culprit is greed in the form of small hydro- electric plants. They’re popping up all over the place.
Dajat Vardapetyan, a deputy in Armenia’s Parliament and President of the Georgian-Armenia Union, told reporters today that he sees no political overtones to the arrest of Armen Chakhalyan, brother of Georgian-Armenian activist Vahagn Chakhalyan.
Employees of Yerevan’s Nairit Rubber Factory again gathered outside the financially strapped Soviet- era plant this morning, planning to march on the Presidential Palace to voice their demand that they be paid back wages owed them.
Father Hakob Sahakyan, who serves as the Spiritual Director of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Akhaltskha, has told Hetq that the Georgian Orthodox Church has appropriated an Armenian church in the village of Damala as one of its own.
MP Khachatur Kokobelyan, leader of the Free Democrats Party is building a new small hydro plant (SHP) on the Paghdjour River in the village of Getahovit in Armenia’s Tavoush Province. This will be his second SHP on the site.
Travel to Alashkert, a village of some 1,800 in Armenia’s Armavir Province, and local residents are more than willing to point out the problems they face.
My first attempt to speak to Syrian-Armenian families who have resettled in the town of Berdzor proved unsuccessful.
Jirair Donabedian is one of the original Syrian-Armenians who resettled in this remote Armenian outpost in 2009, before the war broke out back home.
I can only speak about the last three years since I became administrator of the district. Prior to my coming on board the district had a population of some 8,000. Today, we have 10,000.
When I asked Serop where he lives, the young man joked, “They make me live a dog’s life.” He then told me that he lives in a guard hut for a wheat, iron and cement storehouse.
Had the bank done its homework in the first place, it would have revealed that Sukiasyan used the money to purchase large quantities of gold, a Bentley automobile, a house, and to invest in construction and in Metaks Group Ltd., among others.
She decided to interrupt her studies and move to Mijnavan, a town in the extreme southwest of Artsakh on the banks of the Arax River.
Ararat’s mother Ofelia says he son is receiving no treatment at all for AIDS, but that a court is not allowing her to have Ararat discharged and taken elsewhere for care.
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