In 2021, according to his financial declaration, Badalyan and his wife Margarita Aganisyan, a schoolteacher, purchased a house in Marysville (Washington, USA) for US$584,950.
If by "corridor" we mean the section from Armenia to the former NKAR (Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region) territory, then today’s route from the Armenian border near the village of Tegh to the former NKAR border is 21 km.
The Vachagan River once flowed through Kapan, the capital of Armenia’s Syunik province, down a series of man-made steps, delighting residents and visitors with the cascading image created.
Gevorg Parsyan, mayor of Armenia’s southern Syunik provincial capital Kapan, is on a mission to turn the community of 35,000 into something resembling a small European town while retaining what he calls “our ethics”.
Gevorg Parsyan, mayor of Kapan, capital of Armenia’s southern Syunik province, tells Hetq that Iran might open a consulate there this year.
The algal blooms that have increasingly choked Armenia’s Lake Sevan are nothing new.
New Resort Hideaway: Garik Veziryan Wants to Attract Visitors to Syunik’s Mountains and Forests
When it comes to air links between Armenia and Azerbaijan, these routes have been open since 2021. Here, Armenia did the unblocking and Azerbaijan and Turkey have been the beneficiaries.
Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Committee has launched a criminal case into the offshore business esof Artak Sargsyan, aka “SAS Artak”, the founder of the SAS supermarket chain in Armenia.
One year after our publication, there was no reaction from Armenian enforcement agencies, although we had presented concrete material evidence – the remnants of spent ammunition to target the Shushi church.
In May 2021, Azerbaijani troops occupied a minimum of 32 square kilometers (3,200 hectares) in the Vardenis region of Armenia’s Gegharkunik Province (in the border section from the Norabak-Karvachar road to Big and Small Al lakes.)
Armenian entrepreneur, former MP Artak Sargsyan, has set up companies abroad to support his business in Armenia.
While Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan and his team have repeatedly stated that government officials must work in a transparent fashion, some of Pashinyan's relatives have failed to properly declare all their assets in their financial disclosures.
After Russian forces invaded Ukraine and the West imposed economic sanctions on Russia, Russian aviation faces a very difficult situation.
Armenia’s football team maintains its 92nd spot (1,242 points) according to today’s first 2022 FIFA ranking of the world’s 210 national teams.
Fly One Armenia and the Turkish Pegasus Airlines will launch flights today between Istanbul and Yerevan.
Citizens of Armenia flying to Istanbul will be exempted from paying the 10,000 AMD “air fee” for the next three years.
The excitement following last November’s decision by the Armenian government regarding to Syunik Airport and declaring the start of flights linking Yerevan and the Syunik provincial capital of Kapan, scheduled for this month, soon dissipated.
The Israeli news daily Haaretz reports that the local Aeronautics company and three senior employees were charged on December 29 with violating the law on the export of defense products during a deal with a significant client.
The ANIF and the International Business Company (FZE) operating in the Sharjah Airport International Free Economic Zone (SAIF Zone) each own 49% shares. The remaining 2% is owned by Varouj(an) A. Nerguizian registered in Dubai.
There is an unprecedented case, however, when the Armenian special services captured an Azerbaijani military aircraft without firing a shot.
Against this backdrop, AZAL, Azerbaijan’s national air carrier, is operating Baku-Nakhijevan-Baku flights over Armenian airspace.
Armenian President Armen Sarkissian held the position of director of the French VH Estate company for nine years, even after being elected president in March 2018.
In September, Armenian National Assembly Speaker Alen Simonyan and his wife also vacationed there. They were accompanied by ruling Civil Contract MPs Eduard Aghajanyan and Hrachya Hakobyan (PM Nikol Pashinyan’s brother-in-law).
On October 6, for the first time since 2014, an Azerbaijani plane flew over Armenia. The news has incited a wave of debate, given the thirty-year conflict the two countries have experienced over Karabakh and last year’s war.
On October 26, 2012, Armenia’s Haykakan Zhamanak daily newspaper, owned by the family of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, published an English advertisement about the investments a group of British businessmen planned in Armenia's mining sector.
Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones, a main factor in Azerbaijan’s victory in last year’s Artsakh war, mainly use components manufactured outside Turkey, including many American parts.
The family of businessman Khachatur Sukiasyan, a pro-government member of Armenia’s National Assembly, wants to start an aviation business in Armenia.
Turkey has banned, without any substantiation, Armenia-registered planes from entering its airspace since September of 2020.
Hetq has learned several details about the February 20, 2020 mysterious disappearance of an Armenian plane in Iran that almost turned into an interstate scandal.
Artur Ayvazyan was also found guilty of aggravated identity theft.
Khachatur Sukiasyan, in the number five position on Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party slate, is one of the more affluent of the candidates running in the June 20 parliamentary election.
Hetq, based on the factual evidence and professional assessments at its disposal, has attempted to ascertain what weapons Azerbaijani forces employed to strike the Holy Savior (Ghazanchetsots) Cathedral in Shushi on October 8, 2020.
In this installment of our series examining foreign technologies used to deadly effect in last year’s Karabakh war, we’ll take a closer look at what German parts were used on the Bayraktar TB2 drones employed by the Turkish-Azerbaijani alliance.
In this article we’ll talk about the French additions to the Bayraktar TB2. First, we will look at the satellite used by Azerbaijan in last year’s war.
Canadian Foreign Minister Marc Garneau announced yesterday that his country is revoking its permits to export military products to Turkey.
After defeating Liechtenstein, Iceland and Romania in last month’s World Cup qualifiers, Armenia’s national football team advanced from 99th to 90th in the FIFA rankings. The team now has 1,273 rating points instead of the previous 1,233.
Armenia’s national football team scored a 1-0 victory over Liechtenstein in the opening match of the World Cup qualifying round.
Caving to public and political pressure, the Canadian government has submitted documents to its parliament regarding the supply of military products to Turkey.
According to the NovAir company website, the airline plans to develop not only domestic flights in Armenia but also to enter the international market.
Hetq has earthed some details about the new owner of Atlantis Armenian Airlines, the company that was supposed to operate the domestic Yerevan-Kapan route with an L-410 aircraft.
At first glance, it may seem that closing companies, so to speak, is a normal phenomenon, since aviation is also a branch of the economy. Aviation companies can be opened and closed like any others.
Yerevan’s Zvartnots International Airport experienced record downfalls in flights and passenger volume in 2020. The reasons are obvious.
Andair, a British company that designs and manufactures precision aircraft components, has stopped supplying products to BAYKAR, a leading Turkish defense company known for its manufacture of the Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
On January 10, the French language daily Le Courrier in Switzerland published an article entitled “The Israeli-Swiss Weapon of Azerbaijan”.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who reached a ceasefire agreement with the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Russia on November 9, avoids giving specific answers to questions about the Artsakh army.
It is difficult to overestimate the role of the Stepanakert airport in the first Artsakh war.
With boomerang effect, the executive branch, the government, became the subject of ridicule.
Since the issue of security in Artsakh and the establishment of permanent links between Artsakh and Armenia became essential in the post-war period, talks on the reopening of the Stepanakert airport have resumed.
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