ABOVIAN, Armenia -- Twenty minutes outside of Yerevan in a sprawling complex of buildings that even accommodates llamas, pigs, peacocks, and tropical fish in an on site zoo and aquarium, its life as normal for the prisoners incarcerated in the state-run prison, Established in 1958, the buildings are of course in disrepair after the collapse of the former Soviet Union, but with the support of UNICEF, conditions in the Abovian Women and Children's...
Anil Agarwal, the controlling shareholder of London-based Vedanta Resources and Toronto-listed junior miner Sterlite Gold, is likely to lose a major goldmine project in Armenia -- Sterlite's only working asset. Agarwal's conflict with the Armenian government has already hurt the share price of Sterlite, and puts into international play one of the potentially richest of gold deposits in the Caucasus.
"A citizen of the Republic of Armenia cannot simultaneously be a citizen of another country." This is the second part of Article 14 of the current Constitution, which categorically denies dual citizenship.
In just a few days, on November 27 th , the citizens of the Republic of Armenia are to say "yes" or "no" to a draft containing amendments to the principal legal document of the country, the Constitution.
Very few of Armenia's once abundant forests are left today. Over the last 13 years, forests have fallen victim first to the blockade and the resulting energy crisis, and then to human greed and carelessness. A number of companies have been cutting down trees for lumber, despite the fact that deforestation for industrial purposes is prohibited.
YEREVAN, Armenia - It's well past midnight when Narek Barseghyan and Arman Kocharyan, lead guitarist and bassist with the Armenian rock band Bambir, return home. For once, they've decided to call it an early night, providing me with the opportunity to interview them over a bottle of vodka diluted down with orange juice.
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