In early 2002, then-mayor of Yerevan Robert Nazaryan granted Magnolia Ltd a 20-square-meter site.
After Sergei Yengibaryan was discharged from the Nagorno Karabakh Army in 1996, he decided to go into business.
None of the cafes in the center of Yerevan have been built by outsiders. The names of the owners may not reveal it, but there are influential senior officials behind them all the same. We continue our introductions of those who have occupied the public park surrounding the Opera House.
Thus, Khachatryan got his 20 square meter site and he expanded it. The structure now obstructs the view the Opera House fromSayat Nova Street. It may still be possible to halt construction. A few months ago, we asked Narek Sarkissyan,Yerevan’s chief architect, if any of the new structures around the Opera House preserved the design that the city’s architecture department had approved. He said they did not.
Max Woods’ representatives in Karabakh are Mher Bagratyan and Enrique Viver Camin from Spain. Three years ago Viver Camin established a wood-drying operation in the village of Koghb in Armenia’s Tavush Marz, which caused serious damage to the region.
“The task of the governments of Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh should be to rouse the interest of foreign investors,” said Armenia’s prime minister, Andranik Margaryan, at the September 2 celebration of the twelfth anniversary of Nagorno Karabakh’s independence in Stepanakert.
“When he got here he was in very bad shape, he was having attacks of pain, he kept saying, ‘Oh, Mom, I’m dying.’ Different parts of his body were hurting, we took him to the hospital three times. Once he said, ‘Mom, I’d be better off dead, I don’t want to live.’ I said, ‘John, maybe you’ve done something wrong, tell me.”
At the morgue, his relatives noticed while moving the body that the back of his skull was fractured and protruding through the skin and his clothes were covered in blood. Naturally, they didn’t believe that Shakaryan had died of a heart attack.
The biggest castle in Nagorno Karabakh belongs to Prosecutor General Mavrik Ghukasyan. Of course, no one doubts that it was built with the fruits of honest labor. Ghukasyan had been saving his salary throughout his working life, and this year, his childhood dream of living in a palace fit for a king has come true.
ThevillageofJilizais right on the Georgian border. It is the only Armenian settlement in the area. The only way to reach the village is a bad 28-kilometer stretch of road through the forests between Alaverdi and Jiliza that takes two hours or more by car.
“I have committed a sin, I can’t support any of them, it gets harder every day. We can’t buy bread. I have committed a terrible sin against my children,” says Anahit Sargisyan, mother of ten. Anahit and Robert live in thevillageofJilizadeep in the forests at the foot ofMountLalvar.
It is very difficult to separate person and profession. I have been doing this for more than thirty-five years, so I never look at it from a personal point of view. It is a mistake that anyone in my position can make to become emotionally involved in the subject matter, the area, the country in which he is working.
“This is the first court case inArmeniain which a verdict that was not subject to appeal and came into force from the moment it was issued has been overruled. I think that all the circumstances on which the Court of Appeals based its verdict will be grounds for the Court of Economic Disputes. And I hope that the Central Bank’s appeal will be rejected and the illegalities committed against Credit-Service bank will be undone,” Zalinyan...
Commenting on the results of the tender, Armen Rustamyan, leader of the governing body of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF Dashnaktsutiun) and chairman of the standing committee for foreign affairs of the National Assembly, said, “It was clearly exhibited that that the A1+ Company was better prepared for the tender and was more necessary to the public then some other companies who won the tender.”
On June 13, 2002 Gagik Stepanyan, former head of the Kentron branch of Ardshinbank, died in a Moscow hospital. He had been wanted by law enforcement since February 2002. According to an official announcement, Stepanyan died of cancer.
The recent murders taking place in broad daylight in the Armenian capital have shocked the public. “I am afraid for my grandson, a student. I worry all the time that he might accidentally get caught in such a place. I don’t know what is going on, but it is clear that the streets ofYerevanstreets have become dangerous,” said Rima Chobanyan, a 61-year-old pensioner.
At first glance there is nothing unusual here. The Central Bank is a nonprofit organization and transfers its earnings to the state budget.
Between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on June 23, 2003 the residents of Noradus blocked the Gavar-Yerevan highway. They are angry about the fact that criminal groups are in control in their village, keeping the locals in a state of constant fear. The situation in Noradus shows once again that the law-enforcement system in Armenia is completely corrupt, serving criminal groups, rather than the law.
On February 28, 2002 an announcement was made in the press that the Central Bank had appointed temporary administrations at Ardshinbank and Adana Bank, and decided to merge the two banks.
It was ten years ago - on June 12, 1993. In the early morning the self-defense forces of the Martuni region of Nagorno Karabakh began an operation to destroy the military strongholds in the villages of the Aghdam region of Azerbaijan.
On June 6, 2003 the Chamber of Civil and Economic Cases of the Court of Appeals overruled the March 27, 2003 verdict of the Court of Economic Disputes declaring Credit-Service Bank bankrupt. The court sent the case back to the Court of Economic Disputes.
Running the power structures for ten years, he got a grip on a number of levers. Various sectors of the economy came under his control. His was always decisive in appointing heads of power structures and other key officials.
“In May, 2001 the deaths of nine children under one year of age were registered in the Ashotsk region of the Shirak province. I informed the local law enforcement and national security agencies of Ashotsk, and then the president, the prime minister, and the office of the prosecutor general. None of my appeals got any response,” Nina Vardanyan, chief physician at the Ashotsk Regional Center for Sanitation and Disease Control, told us. She...
1,234,546 people voted in the parliamentary elections and the referendum on constitutional amendments held on May 25, 2203. The race took place in 75 proportional and 56 majoritarian precincts.
President Robert Kocharyan is waiting. He’s waiting for the results of the parliamentary elections, and the new headaches they are going to create for him. Things are getting out of hand. There is nothing to unite the political forces who supported the president anymore.
On May 21, 2003 David Melkumyan, an employee of the Telecommunication Center of Armenia CJSC, came to Alaverdi and turned the transmitter of the Ankiun+3 TV Station, which he himself had disconnected the day before, back on. When Sos Siradeghyan, the director of the TV station, asked what was going on, Melkumyan responded, “I do as I am told.” According to reliable information, Melkumyan had received his instructions from Governor Henrik...
“I was a teacher for 40 years. Two days ago a former student of mine came to my house and offered me 15,000 Drams (about $25) to vote for some businessman. I am ashamed that I had such a student. No one has any dignity in this town anymore,” says 65-year-old pensioner M.S.
We are here by the invitation of the Armenian Government to observe the conduct of the parliamentary elections. That means, not only the Election Day, but the process leading up to Election Day, beginning with the campaign season, the registration of candidates, all through the vote and the appeals. It is essentially the same thing we did during the presidential elections and what we have done for every election held here since 1996.
"L'état c’est moi!" said French sovereign Louis XIV. Four centuries later, officials in Armenia are trying to be like Louis.
Late in the evening of March 5, 2003 the Haylur news program announced that the murder of Tigran Naghdalyan had been solved. Among the images in the broadcast was a TT-model pistol with following letters and numbers on it: TT 265 50g. According to the statement distributed by the Prosecutor General’s Office, this was the pistol used to kill Naghdalyan.
Four residents of the village of Fantan are in the nearby Charentsavan hospital in serious condition, and another 130 villagers have been infected with a so far undiagnosed illness.
As you already know, Artashes Davtyan, the former head of the supervision department of the Central Bank has been taken into custody. Before that, from 1995 to 2001, he worked in three different banks, and all three - HaySnund Bank, United Bank and Credit Service Bank -- went bust. It looks like Davtyan was acting on somebody’s orders.
The Investigative Journalists NGO requested information from the Lincy Foundation’s Armenian office and its Project Implementation Offices (PIOs) back in August 2001, but they have not responded yet.
First, let me congratulate The Boston Globe investigative team on being awarded the Pulitzer Prize. How did you take the news?
In 1998 Armenian-American billionaire Kirk Kerkorian granted a first $10 million then another $10 million credit to Armenia for small and medium business development.
The Constitutional Court and its Chairman, Gagik Harutiunyan, remain at the center of attention in Armenia. On March 24, The Constitutional Court of Armenia dismissed a suit filed by ex-presidential contender (and leader of the National Unity Party) Artashes Gegamyan questioning the outcome of the first round of presidential election, which took place on February 19, 2003. This dismissal, however, has not diminished society’s interest in...
We reported in February that because of an unlawful decision issued by Felix Yayloyan, former mayor of the Arabkir district of Yerevan, sixteen-year-old Badal Harutiunyan is out on the street. (see Hetq-online, February 6, 2003, The district mayor put a minor out on the street).
“I think they’ll arrest me soon. I have founded a Helsinki group for the protection of human rights with my friends. Helsinki-type groups are against the law in the USSR, and the members of these groups are in prison camps. When I founded this group I had two goals - to take the first step on the path toward freedom in my country - I achieved this goal.
On January 21, 2003 the Aravot daily newspaper published a statement by Boris Arakelyan, a former chairman of the board of
Late in the evening of March 5th, when the public was awaiting the results of the second round of the presidential election, Public TV announced that law enforcement had discovered the person responsible for the December 28, 2002 assassination of journalist Tigran Naghdalyan, Chairman of the Board of Public Television and Radio.
On March 6, 2003, the preliminary results of the presidential election were announced. Robert Kocharyan got 67.5 % of the vote, Stepan Demirchyan 32.5 %. Kocharyan is still president of Armenia -- no change of power occurred. Kocharyan is the president of officialdom -- the entire state machinery spared no effort and did all it could to bring to an end the story that evolved around the election.
Construction companies have recently been privatized in Karabakh. These are wealthy, technically well- equipped businesses. The identities of their new owners have thus far been kept secret from the public. We have been informed that Yuri Ghazaryan, the deputy prime minister of Nagorno Karabakh, owns shares in all of these companies, including, we have been able to confirm, the republic’s two most important construction firms. Of course Ghazaryan’s...
On March 5, it will finally become clear who won the 2003 presidential election.
Matryoshka- 1.set of wooden nesting dolls painted to look like a peasant-woman. 2. A red-cheeked, healthy woman or girl.
As a result of an unlawful decision by Felix Yayloyan, former mayor of the Arabkir district of Yerevan, sixteen-year-old Badal Harutiunyan is out on the street. We wasted months trying to get Yayloyan to explain why. Instead, Yayloyan smiled from the campaign posters for his reelection that were plastered all over Arabkir a few months ago. On pre-election TV programs, he talked about his benevolent activity and made various promises.
Russian Lawyer Oleg Yunoshev made sensational statements at a press conference he called on January 14th. Yunoshev represents in court the interests of the family of former Prime Minister Vazgen Sarkissyan, who was killed in the parliament shootings of October 27, 1999. He is convinced that Tigran Naghdalyan's murder is directly linked to the October 27th case.
In a statement issued on January 9, 2003, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Armenia offered a $250,000 reward to any person who can help the investigation to discover who murdered Tigran Naghdalyan, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Armenian Public Television and Radio.
Tigran Naghdalyan, the chairman of the Board of Directors of Armenian Public Television and Radio, was shot in the head and killed on December 28, 2002.
Telman Hovhannessian visited Aravot's editorial office with a letter and some documents refuting the facts in our articles. We are not publishing his refutation because all facts printed in our article were correct, except for one, for which we apologize to Hasmik Hovhannessian. She was not born in the village of Teghenik in the Kotaik Marz, where she owns a private house, but in Leninakan (Gyumri).
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