During November, there were three incidents of tree pruning and cutting in Yerevan that caught the attention of “Hetq” and the public at large.
“Hetq” interviews Jirayr Sefilyan, Coordinator of the “Armenian Volunteers’ Union” national-political initiative How would you describe the current state of domestic politics in Armenia? The political field in our country today is worse off ...
In August of last year, the RoA National Security Service rounded up a known international criminal gang that had defrauded a number of bank cash machines in Armenia out of more than 80 million AMD by using bogus ATM cards.
The Saint Gevorg of Mughni Armenian Church in Tbilisi had a height of some 35 meters and an attractive design, especially on the eastern exterior façade where there were depictions of the benefactors and main altar. There were only two churches with a ...
At a session of the Shirak Regional Council held in the provincial town of Amasia this past November 18, Gevorg Hovakyan, mayor of the tiny rural hamlet of Jradzor, made the following peculiar request of Shirak Regional Governor Lida Nanyan. Mayor Hovakyan, ...
On November 19, the Armenian St. Gevork of Mughni Church in Tbilisi collapsed after years of neglect. “If nothing is done, the next to collapse will be St. Nishan’s,” declared Archbishop Vazgen Mirzakhanyan, Primate of the Armenian Diocese of Georgia. St ...
Back in the early 1980’s, the arsenic waste effluents produced at the Alaverdi Mining and Metallurgical Plant were dumped into a site locally nicknamed the “graveyard This toxic dump is located on the edges of the road leading to the town’s “Len-Hanker” ...