Of the 68 case files regarding illegal felling of 420 trees compiled in the first half of 2016, 21 have been sent to the police and 47 to the ministry of nature protection for follow-up.
Villages with no corresponding road signs are nestled one after the other along the foothills on the Samtskhe-Javakheti region of Georgia.
When construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline got underway and it was revealed that a 2- kilometer section of the 1,768 pipeline would pass through the fields in the village of Molit, in the Samtskhe-Javaketi region of Georgia, local Armenian residents were overjoyed.
The case of smuggling monkeys from Guinea, which has been studied for the past two years by Armenia’s State Revenue Committee (SRC), has been dropped.
Neighbors have discovered the bodies of a 37-year-old mother and her three children in the Armenian village of Vachian, located near the town of Akhalkalak, Georgia.
Companies owned by Aram Harutyunyan, commissioner of Armenia’s Water Resources State Commission, continue to win lucrative government contracts in Kotayk Province – all without competitive bids.
A bill that will let Khachatryan Brothers Ltd. postpone paying VAT tax for three years as financial compensation for its planned investment of 1.9 billion AMD (US$3.9 million) to build a small hydro- power plant in Armenia’s Syunik Province, has been submitted for government approval.
Arskar Ltd., a company solely owned by Anastas Arsenyan, brother of Armenian MP Ashot Arsenyan, plans to operate an open-pit sand and gravel mine a mere 2.5 kilometers from the resort/spa town of Jermouk.
A company owned by the business partner of Narek Sargsyan, the nephew of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, is set to build a small hydro plant in a section of the gravity irrigation network in Vayots Dzor Province.
In a brazen midday assault outside the NKR parliament in Stepanakert, a group of eight men dressed in military uniforms attacked Hayk Khanoumyan, an Artsakh MP with the National Renaissance Party, and manhandled him into a waiting car.
He’s since done so. The committee has said it will reply to his complaint in no sooner than seven and no later than 30 days.
According to the recently released 2016 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), Armenia ranked 37th, with a score of 81.6, out of 180 countries.
The entire complex is expected to cost some US$120.6 million. The company will invest $35.5 million of its own money.
Georgian state investigator Savleh Motishvili told the local press that transportation containers full of uranium-238 were found in the house of one of those arrested.
A Facebook page had been created calling on the Armenian government to call back its ambassador to Georgia, Yuri Vardanyan.
Major General of Justice Mihran Poghosyan, Armenia’s Chief Compulsory Enforcement Officer, is one of the country’s officials who has sown deep roots in offshore economic zones.
Hetq talks to VTB Bank (Armenia) General Manager Yuri Gusev.
Armenia’s Human Rights Defender Office has weighed in on the matter, declaring that Karen Hakobyan’s rights have been violated due to the illegitimate actions of the energy ministry and its negligence.
Small hydroelectric power plants in Armenia are pouring electricity into the country’s grid—and a steady stream of guaranteed income into the pockets of the political insiders who own them.
Arkady Gevorgyan, former president of Armenia’s Union of Fish Farmers, says that the sector is in bad shape due to the fact that Russia’s middle class, where a majority of Armenia’s fish exports went, are no longer consuming the product due to a weakened ruble.
Dasha, a resident of the Ardjanots restaurant in Yerevan’s Hrazdan Gorge, has given birth to three cubs.
A Yerevan court today started to examine the evidence related to Ashot Poghosyan, a former ArmenTel security chief implicated in a scam that rerouted $500 million in revenues at the telecommunication company.
Davit Setrakyan was appointed deputy president of the Cadastre in 2014. He’s declared millions of AMD and numerous properties in his financial disclosures.
According to the ministry, the abovementioned agreement stipulates that Russia will finance, in the form of direct grants, various projects (providing equipment, services, etc.) in Armenia to the tune of US$42 million and 130 million rubles ($1.7 million).
A company called Karalyevas Ltd. is planning to build a hydroelectric plant on the banks of the Vararakn River in Armenia’s Syunik Province.
Villagers have petitioned the Georgian courts to regain their rights to fish the lake, their prime source of revenue. There have even been run-ins with the police.
The European Court of Human Rights ECHR) has decided not to review a petition filed by United Javakhk leader Vahagn Chakhalyan charging Georgian authorities with persecuting him for his political views.
Artur Khachatryan, a citizen of Armenia wanted by Interpol for trading in endangered animals, continues to import such species to Armenia unimpeded.
Wild trout are practically no longer to be found in the Yeghegis river in Armenia’s Vayots Dzor province. Villagers say the trout were once plentiful. They are convinced that the hydro-plants are the culprit.
Geghi Gold LLC has filed a preliminary environmental impact assessment filing with Armenia’s Ministry of the Environment regarding the Voskedzor mining complex.
Entering her local polling station in Yerevan's Ajapnyak district to vote in today’s constitutional change referendum, Nelli Minasyan (photo) saw that someone had already cast a ballot in her stead.
Karen Hakobyan, the Deputy Governor of Armenia’s Gegharkunik Province, and Yurik Baghdasaryan, Mayor of Landjaghbyur, a village in the same province, are gearing up to mine and export sand from the village.
Kobelyan claims that the cadastre agency is violating presidential decree 525 15.09.2007 and his company’s charter. This decree defines the process of reorganization and privatization registry for companies with partial state ownership.
Ashot Poghosyan, a former security chief at ArmenTel, has confessed that he was involved in setting up a cable link for international telephone calls that rerouted revenues in such a way as to avoid taxes.
Unifish, one of Armenia’s largest fish farms, has been declared bankrupt. Artur Atoyan, president of Armenia’s Fish Farmers’ Union, told Hetq that if the ministry continues to display its indifference towards the sector, another 35 fish farms in Armenia will close as well.
In 2012 the woman traveled to Europe and applied for refugee status. Germany argued that she had to go back to Armenia, a country where there is no war. German authorities entered her apartment one morning, got her out of bed, and escorted her to the airport. Nina didn’t have time to collect her belongings.
A panel of experts, who gathered today at Armenia’s Ministry of Nature Protection to debate a government plan regarding management of water resources in the Ararat plain, pointed out that over utilization of the area’s underground aquifer reached its peak in 2014.
According to an AmeriaBank study, debated today in Yerevan, only 1.3% of the country’s populace used such services in 2013; 2% in 2014.
The dispute dates to 2010 when Vardan Ayvazyan’s company Ldjer Ltd. obtained the right to use a lake in the village to farm fish. He banned locals from catching fish in the lake.
The Vatican says it will investigate long standing rumors that a Catholic priest serving in the Samtskhe- Javakhk village of Tzghaltbila has sexually abused boys serving in the church.
For the most part, foreign companies control the telecommunications sector in Armenia. They are international holding companies, companies founded by the governments of other governments, as well as companies registered in various offshore zones. Russian companies dominate this sector, just like other economic sectors in Armenia.
On September 17, 2015, the government of Armenia adopted a decision regarding the petition filed by the Russian company INTER RAO UES, to sell all its shares in Electric Networks of Armenia (ENA) to Liormand Holdings Limited.
Armenians were the first to operate a printing press in Jerusalem. The building still stands and is supposed to be turned into a museum. Right now, it’s locked shut.
Construction work was underway when I visited the Saint Norashen Church in Tbilisi.
Electric Networks of Armenia (ENA) CJSC went to the courts in May of this year demanding that Nairit Plant be declared insolvent.
Ansoumane Doumbouya, former head of the CITES Management Authority of Guinea and a key player behind the illegal export of hundreds of chimpanzees and gorillas to China and elsewhere, was arrested on August 21.
Hetq has learnt that 60 pygmy vervet monkeys, imported from Tanzania to Armenia at the beginning of August, were never quarantined even though they were captured in the wild and might pose a risk of spreading dangerous viruses like Ebola.
Police arrested three people earlier this morning in the Armenian populated community of Tabatzghour (Samtskhe-Javakhk region of Georgia) in the latest flare-up in a long standing battle between local residents and Armenia MP Vardan Ayvazyan regarding fishing rights in the village lake.