In the 2008 yearly financial report issued by the Estonian GILD Arbitrage Risk Capital Fund, the company says that it has invested 20 million Euros in Armenia.
We don’t say that they died, we say, they fell. Everything is preserved in our memory; down to the last detail. The boys are gathered around the gravestones; in silence. The silence captures all.
In May, 2006, the German company “Ostinvestor” purchased 1,520 shares of the “Yerevan Ararat Brandy- Wine-Vodka Factory” (YABWV). This amounts to 3.2% of Ararat’s outstanding shares.
On the way to the Yerablur National Military Cemetery this morning, I hoped I wouldn't meet up with a lot of people there. I no longer can take the crowds and the inevitable people who pop up with their concocted war stories. I promised myself that if that ...
RoA police have arrested Petros Temiryan as a suspect in the murder of Nazaret Berberian, a prominent American-Armenian businessman who went missing in Yerevan on April 25, 2009. Mr. Berberian's partially decomposed body was located on May 15, buried in a ...
Yesterday, the RoA Police issued a communiqué stating that the body of missing American-Armenian businessman Nazaret-Hagop Berberian had been found with traces of physical violence. The body, covered with rocks and dirt, was found in a ditch alongside ...
There still is no trace of American-Armenian businessman Nazaret-Hagop Berberian who went missing on April 25. He left his apartment on Amiryan Street at around 8 pm and hasn't been seen since. The attached photos show on-going construction of a Yerevan ...
In February, Hetq published an article entitled “A ring of illegal construction sites has encircled Lake Sevan”. The article presented facts regarding illegal construction belonging to several top government officials, most notably of Minister for Nature ...
An interview with Nerses Yeritsyan, ROA Minister of the Economy
As of September of this year, Tamaya Resources put a stop to the project to extract gold from the Lichkvaz and Terterasar mines. According to a statement released by the company the primary reason for the project’s termination were financial problems.
During the years 2205, 2006 and 2007, Armenia imported 1,955 tons of molybdenum ore from a variety of countries. The importation of the ore has officially been registered by the Customs Service as, « Temporary importation for reprocessing ». The value of the imported ore according to Customs is 19.7 billion drams (approximately $66 million).
On September 13, 2008, Grigor Igityan, the former translator and representative for the Najarians, was sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment by the Kentron and Nork-Marash Court on the charge of swindling Carolann and George Najarian out of their personal property. The court decided to let Mr. Igityan free on his own recognizance until the sentence went into effect.
In the last few months, due to the global financial crisis, a drastic fall in the price of metals has occurred. The price for copper on the global market fell from $8,000 to $4,000; molybdenum from $80,000 to $24,000-$34,000; zinc from $2,800 down to $1,100. ...
A parcel of land located some 1.5 kilometers north-east of the town of Hrazdan in Kotayk Marz containing deposit reserves of 70,266 tons (19,304 cubic meters) was licensed to Nagin, Ltd. for a period of 25 years. Let us remind readers that Nagin Ltd. is registered under the names of Vardan Ayvazyan’s wife and son.
For more information of the case in question, 14770/EBS, you can go to the Court’s website: www.iccarbitration.org.
On October 29th, the Compulsory Enforcement Service of Court Decrees (CES) released the following statement: “The CES of Armenia declares that Mihran Poghosyan, who heads the CES, presently has no connection whatsoever with the firm Ketrin LLC. While Mr. ...
When I stated that the guys who fought in the war feared talking about the matter I understood that I had crossed the line. Garik opened up and talked without taking a breath.
On October 18th, 11 year-old Arkady Khachatryan was taken from the village of Zaglik to the hospital at Martakert. Fragments from an exploding piece of ordinance had damaged the young boy’s ...
The Public Information Division at the Police Department has not seen fit to organize an interview on the matter and only responded to our written inquiry 21 days later. In their response there was no answer to our question as to why there has been such a ...
Under the name of this struggle millions of dollars are going up in smoke. Again, we are witness to anti-corruption national programs as if the previous ones have been fully realized with unsurpassed results. And if those results aren’t tangible, ...
This case has been closed since Mr. Grisha Harutyunyan, a former Deputy Chief of the Finance Division of Armenia’s Security Agency, lurks in the background.
Two weeks ago a meeting took place where the Prosecutor General of Armenia, Aghvan Hovsepyan, squared off with journalists and various NGO’s. During said meeting I informed the Prosecutor General that people do not believe in the law enforcement system, ...
Up till now in Armenia this is the first and only trafficking case under investigation. For his part Ararat Muradyan doesn’t consider himself to be guilty. He hasn’t comprehended the fact that what he did, recruiting Robert and Edgar Karapetyan ...
The Lori eco-group has directed a set of questions to the operators of the mine, to the Mayor of Stepanavan and to the Ministry of Nature Protection. None has seen fit to provide answers to these queries or to offer clarifications regarding the matter. In ...
Two weeks before President Gul’s visit to Armenia a number of Turkish news agencies contacted me with proposals for an interview. The questions were almost the same - how is Armenian society reacting to the visit of Gul and how do Armenians in general ...
It seemed that nothing was happening in the city, there were no signs of life to be seen. He knew that in all the days of his life he hadn’t learned as much as in one single day of war. The long years of grief had gnawed away at his nerves. He didn’t ...
According to the Customs Department and the Statistical Office of Armenia, the volume of wood exported fromArmeniahas risen sharply over the last four years. During the Soviet era, the republic imported, rather than exported, wood. Today the nearly forestlessArmeniaexports not only wood products but raw timber as well. These are the volumes (in metric tons) of wood exported fromArmeniafrom 1999-2002:
The Armenian community of Istanbul is the most isolated when it comes to relations with the Republic of Armenia. The Armenians of Turkey hardly feel the presence of Armenia in whatever sector you wish to name.
Rober’s parents hail from the town of Sepastia. When Rober was 12 years-old the family moved to Istanbul. The family name is “Shirvanian” which they were forced to change in 1934 when the Turkish government passed a law requiring Armenians to adopt Turkish surnames. Turkish was the language spoken at home. Rober began to learn Armenian at the age of seven at school. He writes articles for Agos in Turkish.
There are about 3-5 thousand Armenians from the ROA residing in the vicinity of the Patriarchate. This was the number noted by several Armenians from Bolis active in community affairs.
While visiting Istanbul, Gayaneh Chalukian and her husband Jan Gavrilof invited us to the 15th anniversary concert of the “Kardes Turkuler” ensemble.
According to the passport laws existing between Armenia and Turkey, citizens of the Republic of Armenia (ROA) are granted a 30-day tourist visa. There’s no difficulty getting a visa. People traveling to Turkey by bus are issued one at the border and airline passengers get theirs either at the Istanbul or Antalya airport, at a cost of $15.
Colonel K. Matevosyan, Deputy Chairman of the State Customs Committee of Armenia, in his response to our inquiry stated that during 2005-2006 the Republic of Armenia exported a total of 866 tons of bananas.
We have many pledges made during the November 23, 2007 Telethon that haven’t been honored as yet; that’s to say that the cash contributions have yet to be forwarded to us. During the past 2-3 years the U.S. Dollar was depreciated in value in Armenia. ...
An interview with NKR Defense Minister General-Lieutenant Movses Hakobyan
“The decision to fire me from my job was taken by the wife of Tigran Torosyan, the President of the National Assembly, just because I asked that my job responsibilities be clearly stated”, confidently states Antranik Sargsyan, Head Visitation Section at the Department of Protocol at the National Assembly. They removed him from his position on April 7, 2008.
An interview with Harutyun Harutyunyan, Director of Armenian Public TV’s “Haylur” News Service
It was with these words that Tigran Sargsyan, then President of the Central Bank of Armenia, concluded a lecture entitled “Armenian Civilization as a Ground Breaking Model” he gave at an event organized by the Noravank Foundation (www.noravanq.am), ...
At one point Serzh Sargsyan viewed the inclusion of Artur Baghdasaryan as the key to pacifying the level of domestic political turmoil. That hope merely lasted till March 1st; the operation at the Opera and the events that followed. The apparent continuation ...
Scores of organizations and political parties from both Armenia and the Diaspora attended the conference as well as representatives of the Armenian Government. The President of the NKR, Bako Sahakyan, was also present for the opening ceremonies on March 28th.
The above lines are taken from a speech that Vahan Hovhannisyan, the presidential candidate of the ARF-D, made before the elections. Wherever he traveled during the campaign he stated that he would safeguard every ballot cast on his behalf. Let me bring one ...
Twenty days later this document was transferred over to the Multi Group Concern, CJSC. The office of GM Magharo at Vardanants Street #7 was closed, the telephones switched off and Tigran Atanesyan, the company’s Chief Director, was no where to be found.
“ I’m not interested in any promises, I’m going of my own free will. I know conditions are rough there “, observes Shahen Baliozian, a Syrian-Armenian who left for Kashatagh with three other doctors on the morning of November 1st.
The head of the Kentron District Municipality, Gagik Beglaryan, known as Chorni (Black) Gago has for years refused to reply to letters from the sent by Monte Melkonian Fund. For six years now, the issue of the Yerevan office of the charity has remained unresolved and uncertain.
In August this year, the efforts made by the government to solve problems that had come up in the mining industry finally bore some fruit. On August 15, a preliminary contract was signed regarding the sale of the Ararat Gold Recovery Company (AGRC), while on August 30, a preliminary contract was signed between Global Gold and the Armenian government, regarding the cessation of the international arbitration process.
67-year old Yura Ghiyasyan lives with his wife, Nadia, in their two-story home in the Tavush village of Ditavan. Their two daughters are married in Russia and their son followed them and moved there as well, where he works and supports his parents. Parts of Yura's yard are covered with rows of firewood, seemingly for the winter. But they use the wood throughout the year, not just to heat their house in the cold season.
An Interview with Vache Gabrielyan, Ph.D., board member of the Central Bank of Armenia
Member of Parliament Harutyun Pambukyan sent a letter to the editor of Hetq which reads, “On June 7 at the Friday Club, during a press conference organized by you and Karen Kanlaryan, the editor of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation’s newspaper Droshak, you made a statement that directly relates to me. Specifically, you stated, “Harutyun Pambukyan’s company Max Wood’s vehicles uproot the walnut trees in Kashatagh, then process...
In 1996 Tigran Kyureghyan left Yerevan for the liberated territories of Nagorno-Karabakh, took up residence in Karvatchar, and implemented projects aimed at resettling the villages. Today he and his family live in Berdzor and he works on a variety of development programs in Kashatagh.