Long before starting the mine, environmentalists and scientists had been warning against serious risks which should have acted as valid enough reasons for disapproving the mining project altogether. In the end, all of these risks have now come true and have substantially harmed the nature, people and the economy.
Levon Hayrapetyan, a Russian-Armenian benefactor serving a four-year sentence for swindling $700,000 from the mother of former Russian senator Igor V. Izmestiev, died today at the age of 68 in the Mordovia Maximum Security Prison.
Davit Sukiasyan, Chief of Staff of Armenia’s Special Investigation Service (SIS), has so much wealth at his disposal that it would suffice to manage several state institutions - pay salaries, maintain the buildings, and so on.
he following is a press release of the Austrian OSCE Chairmanship.