In the bidding for the contract, Tomeryan faced competition for only two items. Even then, it’s crystal clear that the competition, Vahagn Khachatryan, was more for show than anything else.
Hetq’s Diana Ghazaryan and Saro Baghdasaryan were among those news outlets and reporters who won awards at this year’s Children of Armenia Fund (COAF) competition for their coverage of the issue "Inclusivity in Armenia".
The periodic breakdowns in the pipelines that convey toxic wastes flowing from the Akhtala Mountain Enrichment Combinat (AMEC) to the tailings dam in the Nahatak Canyon aren’t the only risks to the environment in this part of Armenia’s northern Lori Province.
Davit Petrosyan, a member of the For the Development of Science movement who led a series of student protests, including hunger strikes and class boycotts, opposing a bill that effectively cancels draft deferments for those pursuing a candidates of science degree, told Hetq that the protests eventually fizzled out after the parliament passed the bill because the students lacked unity.
86-year-old Sourma Tumanyan, granddaughter of the Armenian writer Hovhannes Tumanyan, has published a book about her father, Areg Tumanyan.
The Council of Europe’s anti-corruption body Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO) has today published a new report assessing the implementation by Armenia of its earlier recommendations on preventing corruption in respect of members of parliament, judges and prosecutors.
On December 21, assailants Sinan Narin of Virginia and Eyup Yildirim of New Jersey, who are being represented by Mark Schamel and David Benowitz, pled guilty to a count of assault with significant bodily injury, after participating in the beating of a group of Kurdish, Armenian, and Yezidi protesters outside of the home of the Turkish Ambassador on May 16th of this year. Narin and Yildirim were only two of the 19 individuals initially indicted to...