At a press briefing yesterday in Stepanakert after meeting with RMK President Sahakyan, Minsk Group Co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov said that settlement negotiations had entered a ‘crucial’ phase, since Armenia had responded to the latest proposals offered by ...
Reactions to President Sargsyan’s statements in Syria leading to the possibility of territorial concessions in Karabakh have elicited reactions from the NKR as well. In a conversation with Hetq, Davit Ishkhanyan, representative of the ARF’s Artsakh Central ...
The NKR government allocated 9 million AMD to organize an exhibit at the Milan International Tourism Exhibition now underway in the northern Italian city. Sergey Shahverdyan, who heads the NKR Tourist Board, mentioned at a press conference held today, that ...
Refugees from Azerbaijan Need “Crash Course” in Armenian to Find Work Tamara Amirdjanova, an Armenian refugee from Azerbaijan, had the following to say regarding the issue of refugee return bandied about in the Karabakh conflict settlement negotiations: "I ...
According to an elections amendments package that was passed today by the NKR National Assembly, political parties would have to garner 6% of the upcoming May 23 parliamentary elections to take seats in the legislative body. Political alliances would have ...
This year, work to supply the NKR towns of Martakert and Hadrut with gas is scheduled to begin, this according to Karlen Petrosyan, head of the NKR’s Department of Industrial Infrastructure. Mr. Petrosyan said that gas distribution work will also take ...
Moscow benefactor promises to help; has already sent $20,000 Alla Soghomonyan remembers what happened after they moved into their new home in Shushi. The family had been living in Shushi since 2001. The three room house was built for them by the NKR government, ...
NKR President Bako Sahakyan today named Vasily Atadjanyan to the post of NKR Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs. Prior to the posting, Mr. Atadjanyan had been a member of the NKR Parliament, serving as President of the Standing Committee for Social Affairs. ...
NKR President Bako Sahakyan met yesterday with a delegation from the All Armenia Fund, headed by Executive Director Ara Vardanyan. The two sides discussed on-going projects in the country, with special attention to the plans for the town of Shushi. President ...
During yesterday’s meeting with OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair Robert Bradke, NKR President Bako Sahakyan stated that Karabakh’s independence and security are non-negotiable and that any attempt to disregard this reality would lead to a failure of settlement ...
NKR Defense Minister Movses Hakobyan proudly proclaimed that 188 apartments had been allocated to military service personnel in 2009. He said that this was a substantial increase over previous years despite the ongoing financial crisis. During a press conference ...
At a press conference held today, NKR Minister of Defense Movses Hakobyan described 2009 as militarily "quite complex", but nevertheless claimed that units of the Karabakh Defense Force were able to advance their frontline positions by about one kilometre ...
According to reports from the NKR Ministry of Health, four cases of the H1N1 flu virus have been registered in the country so far. Two are children, the other two senior citizens. Nine blood samples had been sent by NKR health official to Yerevan for examination. ...
As of December 21, all pre-schools will be closed in the NKR for a period of one week according to a decree by President Bako Sahakyan. The decree was issued after yesterday’s session of the Security Council which reviewed appropriate steps to stem an outbreak ...
Yesterday, in Stepanakert, there was a gathering of various NGO’s and political experts, during which participants discussed and debated various aspects of the Karabakh settlement process and recent developments to reach an internationally brokered peace ...
During his opening speech at the ARF’s 16 regional assembly in Stepanakert today, Davit Ishkhanyan, the party’s Central Committee representative in Artsakh, stated that there was indeed a linkage between a settlement of the Karabakh conflict and the normalization ...
Americans for Artsakh, a lobbying group based in the United States, has organized an event at the RoA Embassy in Washington D.C. designed to inform the public regarding recent political developments in Armenia and Karabakh. During the get-together, NKR ...
While on an official visit to the United States, NKR Prime Minister Arayik Harutyunyan yesterday met with Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, Primate of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church at his residence in Saint Vartan Cathedral in New York City. ...
According to a statement by the NKR Police Department, an investigation has revealed that Sharmagh Grigoryan, the former chief accountant of the Stepanakert Branch of the VTB’s "Hayastanbank", and Valya Grigoryan, former Director of Client Services at the ...
For Ashot Jenterejyan, the grand concert stages of the past have been replaced by a new stage called Kashatagh, replete with ruined houses and pot-holed streets. In a word - a landscape where the remnants of war abound.
On November 3, at around 8 a.m., a car struck a land mine some 5 kilometers outside the NKR town of Martuni, killing one of the passengers and severely injuring the other, The deceased was later identified as Martuni resident Vladimir Mousayelyan and the ...
On November 2, NKR Prime Minister Arayik Haroutyunyan selected National Aviation Association President Dimitry Atabashyan to be his official advisor. It is widely assumed that Mr. Atabashyan will handle issues related to Stepanakert’s airport, now being ...
An official NKR parliamentary delegation, headed by Parliament President Ashot Ghoulyan, has been touring France for the past few days. While in the French port city of Marseille, the delegation met with representatives of the local Armenian community. During ...
Today, during a session of the NKR parliament, Armen Sargsyan, who heads the "ARF-Movement 88" faction, declared that any citizen who places the territorial integrity of the country under question by advocating concessions or other means should be criminally ...
On October 25, while in Moscow on the eve of the 2009 Armenian Telethon dedicated to the reconstruction of the city of Shushi, NKR President Bako Sahakyan stated that "the development of Shushi is a matter of national honor", adding that the town’s rebirth ...
Yesterday, NKR Prime Minister Arayik Haroutyunyan paid a visit to Kindergarten #2 in Stepanakert along with Valery Mejloumyan, President of the Vallex Group. Renovation of the kindergarten is being sponsored by the firm “Base Metals”, a Vallex subsidiary ...
According to our sources, representatives of political parties in Artsakh, at the initiative of the ARF, assembled at the party’s offices in Stepanakert to discuss the possible ramifications of the current normalization stage of Armenian-Turkish relations ...
Today, NKR Prime Minister Arayik Haroutyunyan met with representatives of the Hayastan-All Armenia Fund and French-Armenian benefactors Haroutyun and Hermineh Aydabiryan. During the meeting the issue of reorganizing the Muratsan School in Shushi was discussed ...
At a press conference held yesterday, NKR Human Rights Ombudsman Yuri Hayrapetyan announced that his office had recently been accepted as a full member in the European Institute of Ombudsmen. This decision was taken after the visit of Nicholas Shvartsler, ...
Residents of Stepanakert today celebrate the third annual holiday devoted to the capital of the NKR. This evening a gala concert is planned to take place in Renaissance Square in the city centre. The city was called Vararakn up till 1847 and was later called ...
The Minsk Group Co-chairs are now in Stepanakert, NKR, and had a two hour meeting with President Bako Sahakyan. After the meeting the Co-chairs gave a press conference during which Yuri Merzlyakov stated that significant progress in settlement talks had been ...
Tomorrow, celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the reopening of the Armenian Church Diocese of Artsakh will kick off at the monastery complex of Gandzasar, the seat of the Armenian Church in Artsakh. Presiding over the celebrations that will last till ...
Yesterday, the ARF’s Artsakh Central Committee launched a series of debates and discussions regarding recent developments in the normalization process of Armenian-Turkish relations; most notable the infamous protocols. A press conference was called where ...
Despite figures from the NKR National Statistics Service showing that the country produces adequate amounts of wheat; the country continues to import much of the grain it uses domestically from neighboring Armenia. Most of the flour sold in Karabakh stores ...
Yesterday, top representatives of the RoA Foreign Ministry and diplomatic corps were in Artsakh, during which time they held a series of meetings in the NKR National Assembly and with President Bako Sahakyan. The National Assembly’s Press Office reports ...
The former commander of the Artsakh armed forces, Argady Ter-Tadevosyan, aka Komandos, today stated at NKR independence ceremonies in Stepanakert that even though he was a seasoned war veteran and educated in the art of warfare, he learnt how to defend the ...
Today’s ceremonies in Berdzor, Kashatagh, marking the 18th anniversary of Artsakh independence, took on a decidely political overtone. More than 1,000 people, some from as far away as Vayots Dzor and Syunik, joined local government officials at the ceremony ...
A "Hetq" reporter asked President Sahakyan whether Karabakh settlement negotiations based on the Madrid Principles would in fact lead to territorial concessions. "Such questions often arise and are directed at me regarding how Artsakh pictures its future independence; ...
On September 27, a local referendum will take place in Karabakh for the first time. At the suggestion of the Kashatagh regional administration, on August 10 the NKR government decided to hold a referendum regarding the merging of the communities of Tzitzernavank ...
According to Ararat Danielyan, President of the NKR Supreme Court, no cases have been brought to the Constitutional Chamber by Karabakh citizens since they were allowed to do so as of July 1, 2009. With the passage of the NKR Constitution, the Supreme Court ...
Construction is bustling in Shushi today. Everywhere you look repair work is underway and new buildings are going up. This activity is the result of the NKR government’s decision to transfer several state ministries and departments here. Most of the work ...
The 20th anniversary of the reopening of the Artsakh Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church will be officially marked on September 27 and 28 and will coincide with the holiday of the Varaga Holy Cross. On September 27, a Divine Liturgy will be celebrated ...
The NKR government has lately been looking into the question of food safety. The issue has cropped up since rumors have been flying amongst local residents that watermelons have been the cause of a rash of food poisoning cases reported in the area. Doctors, ...
The NKR government has given a tentative go-ahead to opening three new kindergartens in the country. The school proposal was made by Vladik Khachatryan, NKR Education and Science Minister. If implemented, the decision will call for the construction of one ...
The NKR National Statistics Agency reports that the number of internet users in the country has risen sharply over the past year. As of July 1, 2009, there are 4,674 internet users registered in Karabakh of which 4,053 are registered as apartment consumers. ...
During a press conference held yesterday, NKR National Statistics Agency Director Manoush Minasyan stated that during January-June of this year 1,306 babies were born in the country; a rise of 16% over the same period last year. Mr. Minasyan attributed ...
The 18th anniversary of the independence of the NKR will be observed on September 2. To mark the occasion a series of festive ceremonies will take place in the capital of Stepanakert and the various districts of the country. A governmental committee created ...
Excavations at the Tigranakert site in Artsakh are on-going. The dig is being supervised by the RoA National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Archeological and Ethnographic. The work, begun in mid- June and scheduled for completion at the end of this ...
Today, NKR Prime Minister Arayik Harutyunyan met with representatives of Lebanon's "ArtsakhFund" and a group of Lebanese-Armenian businessmen. The foreign delegations are in Karabakh to get acquainted with the investment climate and to carry out some specific ...