In 2018, when Nikol Pashinyan led street protests to topple then Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, event organizer Gevorg Aghabalyan erected a makeshift stage in Yerevan’s Republic Square that was used by Pashinyan and other opposition leaders as a
Khanamiryan didn’t deny working as Sukiasyan's bodyguard․
Armenia’s tax agency is proposing changes to the law that will allow citizens to be exempted from paying tax on the first US$3,000 worth of annual income earned abroad.
Armenia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has launched criminal proceedings into the recent sale of two Yerevan sports complexes following Hetq coverage of the transactions.
Eco Petrol LLC, which purchased Yerevan’s Spartak football stadium last month, has bought another Soviet-era sports complex in the Armenian capital.
Robert Emmiyan, who heads the Athletics Federation of Armenia, says he was disappointed to hear about the recent $12.3 million sale of Yerevan’s Spartak football stadium to a real estate developer.
Eco Petrol Director Zarineh Stepanyan says a new residential complex and modern sports facilities will be built on the grounds of the old stadium.
Following the 2018 change of government in Armenia, Narek Nalbandian became a rising star in the country’s business sector, taking over property owned by Paylak Hayrapetyan at a price several times lower than the market price.
Khachatryan says 5,500 who have reached Armenia are aged eighteen or under.
People are gathering outside the Government Building in Yerevan today following Azerbaijan’s military offensive in Artsakh.
Some five hundred employees of Yerevan’s Department of Greening and Environmental Protection have been awarded bonuses amounting to 50% of their monthly salaries.
The Yerevan Municipality reports a loss of some one billion drams (US$2.591 million) in unpaid rent from the scores of illegally installed payment terminals that dot the city’s streets.
Hetq has learnt that Avagyan, who declared bankruptcy in 2017, has a financial interest in a US$45 million residential/commercial complex being built in the Armenian resort town of Tzaghkadzor.
Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Court will seize some five hectares of land illegally privatized by former PM Hovik Abrahamyan and return it to the state.
Based on Zakharyan’s decision, Haghtanak Park’s plan was drawn in such a way to exclude the leased 6,900 square meters.
When asked to comment on a Hetq article on how Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan purchased a Yerevan apartment at way below market value last summer, PM Nikol Pashinyan said investigators are looking into the matter even though he doesn’t see
Responding to our written inquiry, Jermuk Group Director Vladimir Poghosyan said potential buyers are able to reserve apartments before construction begins.
Papikyan verified that he bought the apartment in July 2022 with an ArmEconomBank loan, adding, somewhat evasively, that Hetq would have to contact the real estate agency involved to “get more precise information about the market price of the mention
Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Court is reviewing an appeal filed by the country’s prosecutor general to seize a Yerevan home owned by former Armenian Chief of Police Vladimir Gasparyan.
Following rumors that Gagik Tsarukyan has suspended construction of a 33-meter statue of Jesus Christ atop Mt. Hatis, some thirty kilometers northeast of Yerevan, Hetq contacted the business mogul’s charitable foundation for confirmation and various
Armenia’s Civil Anti-Corruption Court is now reviewing the case of businessman Samvel Mayrapetyan who purchased two hectares of Kotayk province woodland in 2007.
Poghos Poghosyan, now serving as an assistant to the Head of the Armenian Armed Forces General Staff, purchased a plot of land allocated to the Ministry of Defense years ago in Yerevan’s Nork Nork district where developers now plan to build a twenty-
"This site, which is just a green area, has the potential to be a park. I don't even know whether it matters if it’s a private or a public area,” says Pashinyan, describing the site as a garbage dump.
A high-ranking general of the Armenian Armed Forces has flipped a piece of Yerevan real estate for a staggering million-dollar profit.
The Armenian government is thinking of contracting the management of bus stations in the country to companies owned by Prosperous Armenia party leader Gagik Tsarukyan.
Armenia’s Police Department reports that 19,630 foreigners applied for Armenian citizenship in the first ten months of this year and that 14,661 of applicants are from Russia.
A group opposed to building a 33-meter statue of Jesus Christ atop Mt. Hatis, some thirty kilometers northeast of Yerevan, has filed a court case to annul the sale of land on the site to a charitable organization run by prominent businessman Gagik Ts
Yerevan Mayor Hrachya Sargsyan has given the green light to businessman Gagik Tsarukyan’s MultiGroup Concern company to build a high-rise hotel in the city’s downtown.
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan, during a Q&A session at the National Assembly regarding last night’s Azerbaijani attacks along the border, said that while Armenia has sufficient financial means to acquire the arms and ammunition it needs to defend itsel
Pashinyan announced the news during a speech at the National Assembly, adding that the number is not final.
The mayor of Akunk, a village in Armenia’s Kotayk province, has issued a permit to Gagik Tsarukyan’s charitable foundation to build a water pipeline leading to the summit of Mt. Hatis.
On July 11, Hetq wrote that Tsarukyan purchased large plots of land on Mt. Hatis recently at rock bottom prices.
A Hetq study of the financial audits revealed that the hospital purchased 66 million drams worth of surgical equipment in March 2020 that has never been used.
A Hetq review of the financial audits of Yerevan’s municipal Nork-Marash Medical Center, better known as the Nork Cardiology Hospital, has revealed several management irregularities costing taxpayers millions of drams.
The municipality claimed it couldn’t dismantle the building since it was constructed on land owned by private individuals, the Sukiasyan family.
Armenia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has forwarded Hetq’s January 24 article, claiming that Armen Sarkissian held dual Armenian and St. Kitts and Nevis citizenship before his election as president in 2018, to the National Security Service (NSS) for
Prior to reconstruction, the building at 3 Arami St. was considered a historical and cultural monument. After reconstruction, for reasons unknown, the building was left out of the monuments’ list.
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan, during a November 7 interview with Armenian Public TV, said that relatives of the 2020 Karabakh war victims and missing will be represented in a parliamentary commission of inquiry to examine the reasons for the Armenian
AmeriaBank Retail Banking Director Arman Barseghyan’s response to Hetq’s inquiries about the branch’s closure was unsatisfactory and general in nature.
The facility had stood empty ever since the family of Armen Avetisyan, the country’s former head of customs, gave it to the state in 2019.
Fighting that broke out last night along the eastern part of the Armenian-Azerbaijani line of contact (Sotk-Verin Shorzha) has stopped due to Russian mediation.
Displaced residents of the Jraghatsner, Madatashen and Moshkhmhat villages, near Sghnakh, will also get new homes.
I Have Honor (Pativ Unem) alliance candidate Khachik Galstyan thinks that Armenia “needs a strong fist” and that former Armenian National Security Director Artur Vanetsyan, who heads the alliance slate, can “establish order” in the country.
While the Armenian National Congress today did not formally announce whether it will field candidates in the June snap parliamentary election in Armenia, party leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan said the ANC must be represented in the new legislature “so tha
During yesterday’s 3rd congress of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), the first president of Armenia, Leon Ter-Petrosyan, announced that if the party decides to participate in next month’s parliamentary election, he will head the party’s list.
"Not a meter of land from Syunik can be up for dispute,” Khachatryan stated, adding that the Armenian government is ready to use force to resolve the crisis if talks fail.
The Yerevan Municipality told Hetq that Dalma Invest LLC, the
Mkhitar Arushanyan was the mayor of Karin Tak, a village in Artsakh just south of Shushi now under Azerbaijani control.
The following day, the retreating servicemen were deployed to an area near to where Eduard lay. They tried to approach the site but were repulsed by Azerbaijani artillery fire.
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