“The ruling administration wants to consolidate things in order to be able to overcome the pre-election challenges,” Karapetyan stated.
Former Deputy Defense Minister Vova Gasbaryan gets nod for Police Chief
Heritage Party MP Anahit Bakhshyan says that girls must remain virgins before getting married.
Hetq has obtained a list of such property that belongs to the Church but that are not registered as “possessing any historical-cultural value”.
A festive mood was in full swing on the grounds of the Armenian National Assembly today in Yerevan.
The press in Armenia has been consistently reporting that the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), a junior coalition member, will be pulling out.
Dialysis patient Aram Manukyan says he's only gotten the drug Rekarmon once in the past six months.
The Sevan Police Department is investigating a local school principal suspected of selling bags of flour allocated by the United Nations World Food Programme.
The paper ran a piece today claiming that Poghosyan pocketed a $3,000 bribe in return for a teaching job.
Zoya Gevorgyan has served as the mayor of the village of Shatjrek, in Gegharkunik Marz, for the past 15 years.
The people would have to proclaim – Mr. Kocharyan, come and govern because we are in such a situation.
The eight municipal employees are crammed into such a small room that they have to take turns sitting down or must greet residents in the outside hallway.
Villagers in the region seem to be pleased that they no longer have to truck their produce to points further afield.
In a conversation with Hetq, Sourik Hakobyan denied his sons were in any way connected to the criminal gang.
In 2009, Abrahamyan reported 29,499,760 AMD while in 2010 he reported 25,515,220 AMD. Maybe the 4 million decrease was due to unfavourable weather for crop growing in 2009?
Sargis Nahapetyan, Mayor of Khoronq, says that during the past year ten local families have packed their bags for Siberia
Sousanna Fahradyan relived the night of September 7 when 7 masked men broke into her home in the Arshaluys village
Judge Sahakyan told Hetq that there is another judge with the same name in Armenia and that his son “is not a member of any criminal gang.”
Residents of villages a mere 1-2 kilometers from the border were out in force to mark the independence anniversary.
When I asked about his palatial private house, Karapetyan became tight-lipped.
There are some 21,500 multi-residential apartment buildings in Armenia and most are at least 60 years old.
There are currently 4,530 individuals serving time in Armenia’s jails and prisons, institutions with a maximum capacity rate of 4,400.
At the start of the legislation session this morning, 91 MP’s had signed in. Thirty minutes later only 9 were left in their seats.
Mr. Abrahamyan cautioned MP’s to “watch what they say” to their constituents during breaks in the legislative corridors.
19 year-old Hayk Mkrtchyan, the soldier who died on September 7 while serving at an Askeran military post, was laid to rest today in the village of Amberd.
An employee from Armenia’s Compulsory Enforcement Service of Judicial Acts (CES) paid a visit yesterday to the editorial offices of the daily newspaper Hraparak. The official stated that a freeze of 3 million AMD was being placed on the property owned by Hraparak Ltd and that the paper would be prohibited from publishing any information pertaining to the dispute in the civil case until a final decision had been reached.
A group protesting the mounting non-combat deaths within the ranks of Armenia's military organized a vigil outside the Government Building in Yerevan.
It turns out that Amberd Mayor Manvel Babayan only told the parents and family members of Hayk Mkrtchyan, the 19 year-old soldier who died earlier today at his outpost in Artsakh, that the boy had been seriously wounded.
Hayk Mkrtchyan, a 19 year-old conscript from Armavir Marz died while serving at a military outpost in the Askeran district of Artsakh.
Two children from the Jaghatsadzor village in Gegharkunik Marz weren't planning on attending school this year. They didn't have clothes to wear.
There are several episodes to the case and the top-ranking officer involved has been arrested.
n a poor marz like Gegharkunik, the time has come for the candidates to hand out potato seed and other "favors" to show how much they care for those just getting by.
There are twenty-two pupils enrolled at the Jaghatsadzor village school, Gegharkunik Marz. Two never made it to class this year– they didn’t have proper clothes to wear. Aleks, in the 4th grade, and 9th grader Zhenia Ter-Grigoryan, are brother and sister. Their mother, Aida, told us that the kids don’t even have clothes for daily wear.
Quarantine has been declared in Chambarak, Martuni, Getik, Aygut communities of Gegharkunik Marz since the beginning of June. The reason was cattle FMD discovered in the end of May in Vahan village bordering with Azerbaijan, as a result the Mayor of Gegharkunik Never Poghosyan had to declare Chambarak a prevention zone – quarantine was imposed from on 8th June.
MP Samvel Aleksanyan owns Aleks Grig, a network of companies that has a near total monopoly on sugar imports to Armenia, controlling 99% of the domestic market.
As reported recently in Hetq, several rural communities in Armavir Marz are facing the very real threat of having their irrigation water cut off by the local utility for non-payment.
Residents of the Aghavnatoun village in Armavir Marz have lately been trading blows over irrigation water. The water company have turned off the spigots.
Just two hours later, neighbours were aghast to spot 70 year-old Svetlana lying on the pavement in the courtyard in front of their building.
Gagik Tsarukyan, President of the Prosperous Armenian Party, tops the list of the richest legislators in Armenia's National Assembly.
Today, Hambardzumyan received the 3 page decision of the Appeals Boards nullifying the earlier charges of the Arabkir Tax Authority
While some of us can chose to stay indoors or take a dip in Sevan, Armenia's farmers are concerned with saving this year's crop from a potential drought.
To which MP Gagik Minasyan countered, "My dear friend, dialoguing is a God-given right. We are also talking to you, the ARF.
A few days ago, Aleksanyan even covered the cost of taking 130 district residents to the Georgia seaside resort of Kubatli.
His mother, Naira Mkrtchyan, told me that the doctors in Kapan never told her that her son was born with a heart defect. Gor has a hard time standing on his feet for any length of time.
Recently, a resident of the village of Khachaghbyur in Gegharkunik Marz showed me a membership card stating that he belonged to three different political parties.
Those in need of an Armenian high school diploma need look no further than some "accomodating" principals in Armavir Marz. All one has to do is go and hand over the cash.
Local grocery gets shut down for five days right after owner spills beans to Hetq about "games" played by Arabkir Tax Agency
Weather wreaks havoc on apricot crop, leaving villagers unable to pay off agricultural loans.
Medya says that she has never received any assistance from the government for bearing and raising so many children. "If I had any sense back then, I wouldn't have had so many kids," she said.
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