Hetq speaks to Taron Shagoyan, Caucasian Regional Department Head at the RA Ministry of Diaspora Affairs. What programs is the Ministry conducting in Javakhk? Javakhk is an Armenian populated and Armenian speaking region, but it is another country. So ...
We first got a whiff of the pesticides from the road while we looked over the expanse before us.
They are suing newspaper for 6 million AMD It appears that Bella and Sedrak Kocharyan, wife and son of former RA president Robert Kocharyan, are not satisfied with the retraction published by the newspaper Zhamanak on March 10. The two had sued the paper ...
Hetq speaks to Ms. Sandra Irbe, the Global Fund’s Program Officer for Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Medicines costing $150,000 to treat tuberculosis in Armenia have been allowed to exceed their expiration date.
The Glendale Hills construction company has taken the newspaper Zhamanak to court, demanding that it issue a retraction of a story appearing last August alleging that the company offered residents "hush money" not to contact the press about a building ...
At today’s pre-trial court hearing at the Kentron and Nork-Marash Administrative Court, in which members of former RA President Robert Kocharian’s family are suing the newspaper Zhamank, defense lawyer Nikolai Baghdasaryan called on the plaintiffs to state ...
The operation’s on-site “technician” stated that the hatchery was running 7-8 wells and that some were pumping out 300-400 liters of water per second.
Hetq speaks to Ms. Sandra Irbe, the Global Fund’s Program Officer for Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is an international financing institution that invests the world’s money to save lives. To date, it has committed US$ 21.7 billion in 150 countries to support large-scale prevention, treatment and care programs against the three diseases.
Levon Zurabyan, a leading spokesman for the opposition-based HAK (Armenian National Congress) told reporters today that their next public rally is scheduled for February 18 at 5pm at Opera’s Freedom Square. Zurabyan said the date has symbolic significance ...
Grandma Rima ushered in the New Year huddled at a bus stop on Nalbandyan Street right off the festively lit Republic Square.
Georgian press reports state that Georgian Education Minister D. Shashkin recently visited the town of Akhalkalak and presented residents with the blueprints for a new school building to replace the N3 Georgian School.
The St. Grigor Narekatsi Armenian Church in the Ghado village of the Akhalkalak region is undergoing renovations. A temporary halt to the work has been called due to the inclement weather.
Local factories claim they aren’t to blame Samples of water from the Hrazdan River were taken at three points within the confines of the town of Hrazdan. They were testing for the presence of heavy metals. While results showed that heavy metal amounts ...
Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovhannisian today thanked ARF MP’s and independent MP Tigran Torosyan for voting in favor of the draft bill calling for Armenia’s official recognition of the Artsakh Republic.
Sukhlis faithful demand Vatican sends an Armenian The Armenian village of Sukhlis, just 4 kilometers distant from Akhaltskha, has gone without a priest for the past four months. The local Saint Astvatzatzin Church remains silent. Father Grigor Mikayelyan, ...
Seeks payment from a Chamber of Advocates member ..
Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan, who led Artsakh military forces under the nom de guerre of "Commandos", answered reporters’ questions today regarding the performance of Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan. The armed forces of Armenia and Artsakh have experienced ...
On-going effort needed to reform armed forces Commenting on the November 19 incident at an NKR military unit that left 4 Armenian soldiers dead and 4 wounded, ex Major-General Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan, "Commandos", said it was the result of a ‘settling of ...
Mamikon Chatinyan, a producer with 40 years of experience at Armenia’s Public TV, told reporters today that in terms of overall quality, Armenia’s Public TV beats the competition due to its HayLur news program. “It has the most viewers, when you take ...
Ashot Martirosyan Chairman of Armenia’s Nuclear Safety Regulatory Committee stated today that weapons-grade uranium, as recently reported to have been smuggled into Georgia from Armenia, has never been available in Armenia. Mr. Martirosyan was unable ...
A demonstration took place today outside the RA General Prosecutor’s Office by supporters of jailed Haykakan Zhamanak Editor Nikol Pashinyan, demanding that he and other "political prisoners" be released from jail. Recently, the Armenian National ...
"Interfering in the Exercise of Freedom of Expression Does Not Pursue any Lawful Objective" The headline above is one of the grounds of the appeal presented by the Investigative Journalists that was heard today by the RA Civil Court of Appeals, Judge Nakhshun ...
HAK claims activists have been beaten by cops Earlier this morning, four young HAK activists were detained by police at a picket outside the Golden Tulip Hotel in Yerevan’s Charles Aznavour Square. Inside the hotel, the EU-Armenia Civil Society ...
Raises possibility of revoking operating license At a press conference today to discuss results of its recent investigations, RA Control Chamber President Ishkhan Zakaryan singled out irregularities in the operations of GeoProMining Gold Ltd at its gold ...
New Times political party president Aram Karapetyan stated that the international community seeks a resolution of the Karabakh conflict so that the Turkish-Armenian border can be subsequently opened. Mr. Karapetyan urges the Armenian side to be willing ...
Villages in the Ararat Valley are Being Deprived of Water
Today, at the RA Civil Court of Appeals, a hearing was scheduled to review the appeal filed by the "Investigative Journalists" regarding a lower court decision in the matter of "The Ijevan Municipality and Mayor vs. the Investigative Journalists, NGO". Gevorg ...
Government protecting interests of a Saudi sheikh, not public Today, the RA Court of Cassation accepted the case of 36 residents of the community of Artavaz protesting the government’s February 25 decision to hand over 96 hectares of land to the A&M ...
RA Finance Minister Tigran Davtyan informed Hetq that during the current year penalties levied against gambling house and casinos have multiplied eight fold and that the Ministry has increased the number of spot inspections as well. This comes in the wake ...
During his presentation of the 2011 state budget, RA Finance Minister Tigran Davtyan said 45% was comprised of expenditures in the social and cultural sectors. He added that 63 billion AMD in additional budgetary expenditures were envisaged and that 44 billion ...
Today, at the Kentron and Nork-Marash General Jurisdictional Court, Mikayel Amirkhanyan, Rector of the Yerevan Humanities Institute, declared that he was withdrawing a defamation suit he had filed against Hetq reporter Ani Hovhannisyan. H
Head of Constitutional Rights Union Party Hayk Babukhanyan told a press conference today that the party would be running candidates in the upcoming parliamentary elections in Armenian. Mr. Babukhanyan was at a loss when asked to name the party’s potential ...
Charges of Unfair Competition Leveled Against Aleks Grig Alexander Bojko, Ukraine’s Ambassador to Armenia, and Image Holding Company Director A. Kousak have written to the RoA State Commission for Economic Protection (SCEP), complaining that Saleks ...
MP Hakob Hakobyan, President of the RoA National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Social Affairs and a member of the ruling Republican Party, declared that becoming a member of parliament doesn’t mean that one is automatically stripped of his or her property, ...
An interview with Istanbul Bogazici University Foreign Relations Faculty Lecturer; Professor Behlul Ozkan.When will Turkey be integrated into EU?
The Azerbaijani APA press service reports that Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze has declared that the extension of an agreement allowing for a Russian military base in Armenia, first and foremost, threatens the independence of Armenia. FM Vashadze ...
At a press conference today regarding the upcoming Azerbaijani resolution in the United Nations General Assembly with which Baku intends to garner support for the removal of Armenian forces from the liberated territories, Republican Party MP Gagik Minasyan ...
Visiting Bogazici University Professor Behul Ozkan said yesterday that Turkey would rather spend money to organize anti-Armenian lobbying efforts than on possible compensation stemming from Ankara’s official recognition of the events of 1915 as "genocide". Professor ...
At a lecture today in Yerevan organized by the Eurasia Foundation, Professor Zafer Yoruk of Izmir University stated that Turkey should recognize the Armenian Genocide, adding that his opinion had zero influence in Turkey. When asked by reporters if it wasn’t ...
41 residents of the village of Artavaz, in Kotayk Marz, say they are sticking to their guns in the class action lawsuit they have brought against the Armenian government. On February 25, 2010, the government declared 96 hectares of village land as "eminent ...
At a press conference held earlier today, Karapet Rubinyan, a former Deputy Speaker of the RoA National Assembly, said that the sale of C-300 antimissile defense systems to Azerbaijan by Russia can be construed as an outright anti-Armenian move. "Such a ...
In the course of their inspection at the Haghtanak Old Age Home, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs has uncovered a serious of health and sanitary violations and has directed the institution to immediately take steps to remove them In a recent article, ...
While there are no official statistics, the number of Armenians residing in Belgium today is said to number from 10,000 to 12,000. Gevorg Minasyan, President of the Federation of Armenian Organization in Belgium and the Chief Editor of the Armenian language ...
Where the food isn’t great and ants come and go as guests You can get to the old age home located just over the border of Yerevan, in the village of Haghtanak, by taking the #56 mashkrutka (minivan). After alighting, you still have to walk about the distance ...
Contrary to recent reports in the Armenian press, the Akhalkalak Educational Resource Center says that the classroom hours for Armenian language instruction haven’t been cut in Samtskhe-Javakhk Armenian schools. The Center says that while one hour of ...
In its July 9 decision, upholding the suit of the Ijevan Municipality and the Ijevan Mayor against the "Investigative Journalists" NGO, presiding Judge Gagik Khandanyan of the Kentron and Nork-Marash District Court ruled that the two articles that originally ...
Ijevan Municipality to Receive "Slander" Retraction On July 9, the Kentron and Nork-Marash Districty Court, Judge Gagik Khandanyan presiding, sustained the claim of the Ijevan mayor against the Investigative Journalists, NGO. The decision obligates the ...
Seismic specialists consider the school building in the Vardenis village of Aragatzotn Marz to be unstable. Snow melt in the spring collected in the basement of the school attended by 129 students. The drainage system does not work. The building has not been ...
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