Students at the Vardges Petrosyan Primary School in the Armenian town of Ashtarak are blowing into their cupped hands to keep war and looking for some shelter.
The CC says that before the loans were paid off, new loans were taken to pay the interest on the previous ones. Total interest paid was $1,421,600.
For 2015 and 2016, the Armenian government has allocated the Ministry of Diaspora 8.2 million AMD (US$17,110) per year to publish its yearly Armenian Diaspora Yearbook.
Arguing that there is an immediate need to more closely investigate the assets and revenue sources of top officials in Armenia, opposition MP Nikol Pashinyan has called for the creation of an ad-hoc parliamentary committee to do just that.
Vahe Hakobyan, the newly appointed governor of Armenia’s southern Syunik Province, has declared 154 million AMD ($322,000) in annual revenue.
Volodya and the older children have been tending to the village animals for the past four years. He says he gets 3,000 AMD monthly ($6.30) for grazing one cow. He’s paid the same for slaughtering one animal. The children also chop wood for neighbors.
He disclosed 123 million AMD (US$259,000) in revenues, all in the form of wages from his prior job as the head of administration and general director at Armrusgasprom.
Armenian MP Rustam Gasparyan, representing the 93rd electoral district in Armavir Province, owes 3.165 million AMD ($6,660) in car property tax and penalties, per the Armavir town municipality.
Harutyunyan, who prior to becoming deputy minister, served as director of BB Group LLC., disclosed 120 million AMD in revenue. His bank assets include 19 million AMD, $45,000, and 20,000 Euros.
Today, Armenian MP Margarit Yesayan asked Karen Karapetyan, recently appointed the country’s prime minister, what steps his government would take to ensure that proper food safety standards would be enacted and complied with.
According to the changes adopted, scanning of the signed voter rolls will occur at noon one day after election day. Members of local election committees, candidates, proxies, election monitors and the press will be able to follow the scanning process.
Armenia’s Prosecutor General has examined 597 reports of fraud – media articles and written complaints filed by NGOs and citizens – alleged to have taken place during the referendum campaign, on election day and afterwards.
According to the draft expenditure, 260 million AMD ($584,000) of the 2.784 billion AMD ($5.868 million) slotted for the elections will go to the police, to see that the April elections will be “free and fair”.
This reporter uncovered some funny business today at the 19/10 polling station in Etchmiadzin, Armenia – the fiefdom of “General” Manvel Grigoryan, an Armenian MP.
There are three ambassadors of Armenia who do not file financial disclosures with the country’s Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials.
Gagik Margosyan and others embezzled 759.2 million AMD (US$1.594 million) from the company during 2010-2014, and another 24.4 million from 2008-2013.
A man in Armenia’s Tavoush Province finds himself in court for allegedly stealing eight chickens and one rooster.
The three reporters, Artak Hambardzoumyan, Karlen Aslanyan and Hovhannes Movsisyan, were hindered from covering the arbitrary detention of citizens that were merely sitting in a nearby park.
Robert Ananyan, a reporter for Armenia’s A1+ news outlet, is being treated at the Yerevan’s St. Gregory the Illuminator for wounds to his legs and hand when police let loose with percussion grenades on crowds demonstrating near the police building seized by an armed group two weeks ago.
The criminal case has been dropped based on the finding.
Haytayan said that the Sasna Dzrer armed group, which earlier today had taken four emergency ambulance personnel hostage, had asked to speak directly with the minister, and that he ostensibly went to negotiate for their release.
Armenia’s Constitution was adopted on July 5, 1995. The first changes were made on November 27, 2005. Other changes were made on December 6, 2015. The right to receive changes made to the Constitution was declared as a constitutional right and one of the fundamental human rights.
Residents in several communities in Armenia’s Gegharkounik Province say their animals are displaying symptoms of foot-and-mouth disease, a highly contagious ailment almost exclusive to cattle, sheep, swine and other cloven-hoofed animals.
When this reporter asked Sahakyan, who receives an annual salary of 9.3 million AMD ($19,510), where the money came from, she said she had taken out a loan of 70,000 Swiss francs. (That’s around $71,200 at today’s exchange rate)
Grisha Sargsyan, former head of the Armavir Provincial Military Police, has sued the newspaper Zhoghovourd for slander when it published a news item on May 24 alleging that he refused to carry out the directives of an Artsakh military base command.
A long abandoned construction crane, now adorned with tens of stork nests, is a familiar sight for those traveling the road to the border with Turkey in Armenia’s Armavir Province.
In fact, the village council has decided to pay up to 50% of such costs and it turns out that the major beneficiaries are the children of the Yeraskhoun mayor, and his relatives, and children of council members.
The cloaks worn by judges in Armenia cost 70,000 AMD ($146) a pop.
On May 11 of this year the Scotch Whisky Association took two companies owned by Aleksanyan family members, A&G Ltd. and Aleks Grig Ltd. to court in Yerevan, demanding that the court prohibit the companies from engaging in such deceptive business practices, to pull the whisky in question from store shelves, and to obligate the companies to pay compensation.
Nshan Gevorgyan gets paid 5,000-7,000 ($10-15) every month for keeping the bus station in the Armavir village of Vosgehat clean.
A host of problems plague Araks, a village in Armenia’s Armavir Province on the border with Turkey.
Exports of tomatoes and cucumbers from Armenia have increased over the past few years.
Ashot Yeghoyan, a 55-year-old resident of the Getap village in Armenia, is known by his neighbors as the ‘inventor’.
Relatives of a young man, soon to turn twenty, suffering from cystic fibrosis (CF) asked that his name not be mentioned in this article. He’s embarrassed because people look at him differently.
Armenia’s National Assembly yesterday debated a new Law on Medicine designed to replace the current law that was adopted in 1998 and is considered lacking.
Waagner-Biro Stage Systems, a division of the multi-national Waagner-Biro, based in Austria, was given the job of refurbishing Yerevan’s Spendiaryan National Opera and Ballet Theater and the Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall.
Karen Shakhmuradyan owns 8.33% of the company and his brother Ashot the same amount. Their mother, Lousya Ter-Sargsyan, owns the remaining 83.34%.
In July of 2013, Naghdalyan’s company won a 409.2 million AMD contract to carry out repairs on sections of the very same Goris-Meghri highway, down to the border with Iran.
Justice Minister Hovhannisyan said that Armenia’s Ethics Committee Re: Top Officials has certain powers to deal with such allegations and that it can launch an investigation if deemed appropriate.
At a session of the Armenian parliament today, MP Khachatour Kokobelyan called on the Armenian government to demand from Russia that it annuls its armaments deal with Azerbaijan.
Zohrabyan argued that the National Assembly, on behalf of Armenia, a full member of the Council of Europe is obliged to respond to the statements uttered by that “scoundrel” Agramunt.
Three Artsakh soldiers, wounded in fighting that broke out along the Line of Contact today when Azerbaijan launched a major offensive, have been transferred to the Mouratsan Military Hospital in Yerevan.
Mrs. Badoyan lost her husband in WWII. She raised their only son by herself and is happy that her son is now taking care of her.
“The proposal that lists of those who have voted be published is quite controversial, since it contains both positive and negative elements,” Avetisyan told Hetq.
Last year, he spent 90 million AMD ($183,000) to buy ten paintings. That same year, Arsenyan purchased a Mercedes Benz for 95 million AMD and two parcels of land for 33 million AMD.
A family of three lives in the only temporary metal hut in Landjaghbyur, a village in Armenia’s Gegharkunik Province.
While Hovsepyan has declared such “gifts” in his financial disclosures, that’s about all we know. Who made such generous gifts and why, remain unanswered questions.
In 2015, Aleksanyan, who offers interviews at 500 Euros a pop, only declared 8.8 million AMD in dividends and 1.2 million AMD in property rent as revenue in addition to his yearly salary of 6.2 million AMD as an MP.
For years, Hovik Abrahamyan, Armenia’s prime minister since 2014, has declared millions of AMD (35-45 depending on the year) in revenue from the sale of ‘agricultural goods’. 40 million AMD roughly translates to US$97,500.
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