Lusine was just 16 years old when she was trafficked from Armenia to the United Arab Emirates.
An article published on November 25, 2005 on www.mineweb.com, an international mining publication focusing on mining finance and corporate news, suggested that Anil Agarwal, the chairman of Vedanta Resources and Toronto-listed junior miner Sterlite Gold, is likely to lose a major goldmine project in Armenia.
The only desert in Armenia is situated in the Ararat valley. This desert, 1 km long and 1.5 km wide, is manmade, the result of twenty years of work by the Ararat gold processing plant.
Last December the Chamber for Civil and Economic Cases of the Court of Cassation of Armenia considered the suit brought by of Armen Sahakyan, a mechanical engineer with many years of experience at the Sotk mine and chairman of the Lernagorts Union of Sotk Mineworkers against the management of the Ararat Gold Recovery Company (AGRC).
The district of Kond was established in the 17 th century and hasn't been architecturally modified since then.
An American's First Day in Armenia
It's not often that you hear rock music on the streets of Yerevan, but on 15 December 2005, Gyumri rockers Bambir changed all of that - literally.
"If you grew up in the shade of the mulberry-tree, you are a citizen of that country," said 73-year-old Slava Mosunts, who after long years of research has created a genealogical tree of Martakert.
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