Armavir Provincial Governor Ashot Ghahramanyan told Hetq that small private homes will be built near the border with Turkey “so that our compatriots from overseas can sip their morning coffee while gazing up at Mt. Ararat.”
Officials continue to claim that pretrial detention is vital, and the courts have taken up the call. Detaining those accused of crimes, even petty ones, has become the norm.
In the bidding for the contract, Tomeryan faced competition for only two items. Even then, it’s crystal clear that the competition, Vahagn Khachatryan, was more for show than anything else.
Hakob Hakaobyan, a member of the Armenian National Assembly, has been roundly castigated for saying that inflation in Armenia would not affect the poor because they were in no position to purchase those goods anyway.
The cost of manning a security checkpoint outside the mayor’s office is 6.4 million drams. Manning three additional checkpoints throughout the building will cost 30.1 million drams.
Armenia’s Minister of Transport, Communication and Information Technologies Vahan Martirosyan, appointed more than a year ago, wants to build a hotel in Tsaghkadzor, a popular resort town in Kotayk Province.
Most parents of schoolchildren in Jrarbi, a village in Armenia’s Armavir Province, today gathered in front of the school, protesting conditions inside, and demanding the government pay attention to the issue.
The disclosures of four of these five civil servants reveal assets exceeding income by tens, if not hundreds, of factors.
Kamo Areyan has served as the first deputy mayor of Yerevan for 14 years, since 2003. He was also a deputy mayor in 1997-2001.
Armenia’s Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials (CEHRO) has published a list of 14 officials who have failed to file financial disclosure statements.
An unidentified person, reported to have taken children and staff hostages at the Manushak kindergarten in the town of Armavir about an hour ago, has now released them.
The company farms fish in the Armavir community of Jrarat. In 2016, it was granted a three-year permit to tap into the underground water supply.
Marat Duryan, appointed head of the Investigation Department of Armenia’s Tax Service last November, has wasted no time in cashing in on Armenia’s mining free for all.
Davit Sukiasyan, Chief of Staff of Armenia’s Special Investigation Service (SIS), has so much wealth at his disposal that it would suffice to manage several state institutions - pay salaries, maintain the buildings, and so on.
Someone must love Mikayel Gharakeshishyan, who’s served as the mayor of Lori community Stepanavan for the past five years.
Shenavan Mayor Artur Mkrtchyan says that a photo appearing in Facebook the other day holding two dead endangered griffon vultures not only dates to 2007, but that he found the large birds on the side of the road.
Eight-year-old Manvel gathers a mound of dung in the yard of his house. He’s preparing a small fire to roast some potatoes. They’re delicious, he boasts.
Arsen Afrikyan, Chief Warden of Armenia’s Abovyan Penitentiary, known colloquially as the “women’s prison”, has whopping cash assets of $125,000, 15,000 Euros and 45 million AMD ($94,000).
Garik Hakobyan has been growing grapes in his native Kaghtsrashen ever since the privatization of land in Armenia.
It’s the first time since the amendment to the Law on Public Services that the employees of penitentiary institutions submit their financial disclosures. We hereby present information about the disclosures of penitentiary institution chiefs’ property and revenues as of July 1, 2017
The court found that between 2008-2016 Yoyloyan had created several non-existent job postings and that salaries were paid to the individuals registered as employees.
Next to a recently constructed building in the Akhouryan community in Armenia’s Shirak Province, stands a rusting container hut (domik) in which Hovhannes Tigranyan, his wife Amalya, and their 3-year-old granddaughter live.
The grape harvest will soon start in Armenia, but some companies that buy the grapes for reprocessing are holding back on purchases this year.
Even though thousands visit the lake every year, in summer and increasingly now in the winter as well, the 20,000 or so residents of the town have seen little of the tourist money trickle down to them.
School Principal Argam Tamrazyan says they also want to reach out to benefactors so that they can set- up a small greenhouse in the school yard. This way, he says, the pupils can have fresh vegetables to eat in the winter.
Armenia’s Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials must have been on vacation for the three years the ambassador failed to file any disclosure at all.
MPs from Armenia’s Yelk (Exit) Alliance have presented a bill to parliament that would eliminate VAT from drug sales, thus making prices more affordable for average citizens.
Children rush out from courtyards large and small to see what’s going on. Within a few minutes the streets are full of noise and commotion, the complete opposite of the silence that previously reigned.
While the government claimed the study results had been published, offering the following link as proof, nothing appeared on the screen when checked by Hetq. All that appears is – Page Not Found.
The school principal believes that support must be given to farming and animal husbandry, the two main developed sectors in Sevkar, otherwise, the village will vanish.
Lousineh says her 5,000 AMD in daily wages is sufficient for the family to get by.
Villagers say they can’t sell all the cucumbers they grow at the market for a reasonable price, and the excess is used for animal feed.
The Electric Networks of Armenia (ENA) company has sued the Armavir Provincial Government for 8 million AMD ($1,658) in unpaid utility bills and fines.
For some time now, employees at the Metzamor Medical Center in Armenia’s Armavir Province have been allocating a part of their wages to pay the electric bills incurred by the hospital.
In a rambling speech, his first as a member of the Armenian parliament, ARF member Andranik Karapetyan, representing Armavir, went off topic and began to lecture on Armenian identity and values instead of a bill seeking to create a committee to prevent corruption.
In 2016, the Ashtarak Medical Center delivered 300 babies. The number was 330 in 2015. Maternity hospital rooms haven’t been sufficiently renovated.
No classes were held on May 4 at the Vardges Petrosyan Primary School in Ashtarak, a town of 18,000 in Armenia’s Aragatzotn Province.
In Khoznavar, a rural community in Armenia’s southern Syunik Province, animal husbandry is the main occupation of inhabitants.
Armenia’s Police signed a 207 million AMD (US$426,000) contract with Hay Post to send out notices to voters before the April 2 parliamentary election informing them of date, time and place.
Longtime civil servants in Armenia, afraid of losing their fat pensions, are applying for early retirement in record numbers.
At times, more than one voter enters the voting booth. The violations go unnoticed by local proxies and the election commission members on site.
Four political alliances and five parties, for a total of 1,479 candidates, are contesting seats in the new parliament.
He has personally financed the renovation of several provincial and community roads. Movsisyan has work crews out filling potholes in the roads leading to the communities of Aghavnatoun and Doghs.
Davit Manukyan, the 33-year-old son of Armenia’s Ambassador to Ukraine Andranik Manukyan, is running for a seat in Armenia’s parliament on the Tsarukyan Alliance ticket.
Argam Abrahamyan, son of Armenia’s former prime minister Hovik Abrahamyan, currently serves as the mayor of Artashat, a town of some 22,000 in Ararat province.
Amiryan owns fourteen properties – five private homes, seven parcels of land, and two buildings.
In his financial disclosure for February 1, 2016 to January 31, 2017, Hakobyan declared 36 million AMD (US$74,098), $191,000, and 115,000 Euros in cash holdings.
Upon taking office, Karapetyan declared 32.898 million AMD in revenues. By the end of 2016, that amount increased to 36.136 million.
By a vote of 62 to 18, Armenia’s National Assembly today ratified a 44 million Euro loan project with the Asian Development Bank that will improve and rehabilitate the M6 Highway between Vanadzor and Bagratashen.
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