At a press conference held today Boris Gabrielyan, Director of Institute of Hydro-Ecology and Ichthyology of the National Academy of Sciences stated that Lake Sevan no longer has viable fish stocks for commercial use. He said that besides a fish locally ...
At a press conference held today, Inga Zarafyan, President of Ecolur, an environmental NGO, stated that as a result of the warnings raised by the group and other concerned social activists, a number of RoA ministers have come out against plans by GeoProMining ...
At a press conference held today, HAK coordinator Levon Zurabyan responded to criticsm that by refusing to take seats in the new Yerevan municipal council the opposition political alliance had disillusioned its supporters. Mr. Zurabyan noted that it would ...
With a mere 4.65% share of yesterday's election vote, the ARF failed to hit the 7% threshold for city council representation. When we tried to get ARF candidate Artzvik Minasyan to comment on yesterday's vote results he responded with "no comment". He said ...
Tigran Karapetyan, leader of the People's Party, stated to "Hetq" that the results of yesterday's municipal elections do not reflect reality. His party only received 2.14% of the vote according to official results. "I'm not talking about my party's votes. ...
"Hetq" correspondents stationed themselves at various polling stations around Yerevan this morning. They will be providing you with updated reports regarding the Yerevan municipal elections throughout the day. So please visit our site periodically for updates. We ...
At a press conference held today, Norayr Mouradkhanyan, Chief of the RoA Passport and Visa Department, stated that 771, 477 individuals were registered to vote in the May 31 Yerevan municipal elections. He said that individuals and organizations had until ...
ARF MP Armen Roustamyan said today that elections in Armenia had become a business and that most voters regarded the elections as a way to make money rather than an opportunity to choose a new government. Mr. Roustamyan stated that rather than spending ...
On May 22, Gagik Minasyan, President of the Parliament's Financial and Budgetary Affairs Committee, said that Armenia would come out from under the grips of the global financial crisis in the 4th quarter of 2009. Mr. Minasyan argued at a press conference ...
Yesterday, Eleanora Manandyan and Gayaneh Yesayan, members of the "New Armenia" NGO governing board, protested outside the Foreign Affairs Ministry building in Yerevan and called for the resignation of RoA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan. They say they ...
At a press conference held today HAK representative Davit Shahnazaryan, when asked by reporters what relations would be like if both opposition and ruling party candidates were voted into the Yerevan City Council, answered, "Given today's reality, the representation ...
HAK representative Davit Shahnazaryan stated that the recent spate of fisticuffs involving supporters of the ruling coalition's Republican Party and Prosperous Party points to the fact that the regime has lost all control over its criminal base. "This is ...
At a press conference held earlier today, ARF Political Affairs Coordinator Giro Manoyan said that it's likely that an agreement of principles regarding the settlement of the Karabakh conflict would be signed this year that isn't in the best interests of either ...
Giro Manoyan, who heads the ARF Hay Tad and Political Affairs Office, today stated that Armenia must break off talks with Turkey. He based his statement on Turkish PM Erdogan's recent statement that the issue of Karabakh must be settled before the border with ...
ARF parliamentary faction member Lilit Galstyan has described the current election campaign for Yerevan City Council as a repeat of previous flawed elections replete with bribe-giving, illegal lists of residents and the full use of administrative, material ...
Yesterday, a report was circulated that Armenia wouldn't be participating in NATO military exercises scheduled to take place in Georgia on May 6. Today, reporters tried to get the reason for the last minute pull out from Deputy Foreign Minister Karineh Ghazinyan ...
On the eve of the May 7 "European Partnership" summit to be held in Prague, RoA Deputy Foreign Minister Karineh Ghazinyan told reporters today that Turkey has also expressed an interest in the summit but that it was still unclear if Turkey might somehow participate ...
Armen Ayvazyan, who heads the Ararat Strategic Scientific Center, suggested that the Armenian foreign minister should hand in his resignation to placate the ire of the Armenian people over the recent "road map" declared by the governments of Armenia and Turkey. "On ...
According to HAK coordinator Levon Zurabyan the Office of the Human Rights Defender isn't working at top capacity. At a press conference held today,Mr. Zurabyan pointed to the HRD's 2008 report on the state of human rights in Armenia and its activities as ...
Levon Zurabyan, a representative of the HAK (Armenian National Congress) was asked today by reporters what he thought about the ARF decision to quit the governing coalition and whether this meant that the HAK might cooperate with the ARF. Mr. Zurabyan dryly ...
In an interview with "Hetq", Heritage Party Deputy Larisa Alaverdyan stated, "The ARF played one of its cards not to equate itself with the politics of the ruling coalition." In her words, the reason for the ARF leaving the coalition isn't clear but opportunity ...
In an exclusive interview with "Hetq", Naira Zohrabyan, a Prosperous Armenia Party parliamentary deputy, stated that the ruling coalition was stronger with the presence of the ARF. "We respect the position of our coalition partner, the ARF. The step it ...
Yesterday, the S.O.S. Sevan, an umbrella alliance of groups determined to raise public awareness regarding the threats posed to Lake Sevan by the planned gold reprocessing plant to be built by the GeoProMining Company, called a public meeting at the Tekeyan ...
At a press conference held today, Garineh Danielyan, President of the “Association for Human Sustainable Development” sounding a public warning regarding the future of Lake Sevan. “At issue is the fact that there are mines around Lake Sevan. In the ...
At a press conference held today, Armenia' Marxist Party leader Davit Hakobyan stated that the honeymoon between him and the Armenian National Congress (HAK) led by Levon Ter-Petrosyan was over. He expressed his anger over the HAK mayoral ticket in which he ...
It’s alredy 21 years that about 50 families of refugees have been living in the former penal colony of Kasakh in Kotayk region. The Armenian refugees who fled from Azerbaijani Baku, Sumgait and Kirovabad cities were given a shelter in different buildings ...
The Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) headed by Armenian businessman Gagik Tzarukyan, has selected Harutyun Kushkyan, the current Minister of Healthcare, as its nominee for the May 31 Yerevan mayoral elections. During a press conference yesterday Khachik Galustyan, ...
Today, at a press conference at the "Ourbat Club", "Hetq" tried to get Kiro Manoyan, who heads the Hay Dat and Political Affairs Office, to verify whether the two Armenian social activists recently arrrested in Javakhk, Sargis Hakobyan and Grigor Minasyan, ...
MP Hovhannes Margaryan of the Rule of Law Party and a member of the National Assembly's Ad-Hoc Committee investigating the events of March 1-2, 2008, has stated that the committee is presently waiting for the Fact Finding Group to present its findings before ...
Today, at a working government session, RoA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, addressed the issue of mandating the widespead use of cash registers in business locales and the issue of current tax reform legislation in general. The Prime Minister commented that, ...
Today, at a "Hayeli Club" press conference it was reported that American-Armenian analyst Richard Giragosian has been selected as the new director of the Armenian Center for National and International Studies (ACNIS), a leading independent strategic research ...
At a press conference held today, Stepan Demirchian, President of the People's Party of Armenia, stated that, "If the European Commission voted not to strip the Armenian delegation of its voting rights it doesn't mean that the problem has been resolved nor ...
Recently the opposition press has offered the idea that the decision of PACE not to deprive Armenia of its voting rights in the organization is somehow linked to concessions made, or to be made, by the Armenian authorities in the Karabakh conflict settlement ...
An interview with Mr. Ara Ghazaryan, lawyer for the “A1+” and “Noyan Tapan” T.V. stations Mr. Ghazaryan, are you satisfied with the judgment of the European Court? It is satisfactory to the extent that the Court understood the crux of the case; that ...
“Pop was sick and couldn’t work and the medicines he took were very expensive. One medicine cost 2,500 drams just for one gram, so I was working for him and also to put food on the table.” Yura says. The boy says he had no problem plying ...
Lilik Simonyan, an expert with the “Armenian Women for Health and a Healthy Environment” NGO states, “As a result of the self-ignition process at the dump the poisonous gases spread by the wind reach people living in the vicinity.” With ...