A team of Hetq reporters yesterday visited the Hovtashen, Noramarg, Sis, Hovtashat, Dashtavan and Zorak villages located in Armenia’s Ararat Province to check of the status of storks in the area.
Armenia has once again appeared in a UN Security Council report, and not in a good way.
Iva Marutyan, the wife of Yerevan Mayor Hayk Marutyan, purchased three units of real estate in the Czech town of Kutná Hora last year.
When the coronavirus hit Armenia in early March, those who had been exposed to the first confirmed patient were ushered to the mountain resort town of Tsaghkadzor and quarantined at the posh Golden Palace Hotel Resort & Spa.
The European Commission today announced an updated EU Air Safety List, which for the first time includes Armenia with all its air carriers.
Planes are flying in and out of the airport, but these flights are nowhere to be seen on the arrivals and departures board.
Armen Amiryan, who served as Armenia’s Minister of Culture from 2016-2018, founded a company called Radio House in Glendale, California, this past January.
About half an hour ago, a Lebanese Middle East Airlines plane from Beirut, transporting twenty Armenian citizens, landed in Yerevan.
Although the spread of coronavirus has reached a pandemic level globally, Hungary's Wizz Air budget airline launched its first flight to Yerevan today.
Armenian Helicopters, the only airline operating civilian helicopters in Armenia, has expanded its fleet by registering its fourth helicopter.
Irish budget airline Ryanair announced today that due to the coronavirus it will reduce short-term flight schedules (by 25%) from March 17 to April 8.
"She’s our Marlene Dietrich," say the staff at Yerevan’s Orran (Haven) Center in response to a smiling Marlene Hakobyan.
Former Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) MP Artur Gevorgyan sold his U.S. apartments last year and bought a house instead.
On February 12, law enforcement in Armenia launched a criminal case based on a March 2019 Hetq investigation looking into the luxury real estate holdings in Dubai of Armenian government officials.
Armenia has filed an international arrest warrant for former Deputy Minister of Finance Artur Afrikyan, charged with financial improprieties while on the job.
In 2005, Alexander Sargsyan, brother of former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, founded a real estate rental and construction company in Nevada.
The Czech Republic is a destination sought not only by tourists but also by business and real estate investors.
Yerevan resident Prof. Armen Melikyan is a surgeon by profession, a Doctor of Medical Sciences and a Corresponding Member of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia.
ZÁTKA purchased a 5645 square meter piece of property (U Vodárny 193), which includes some structures, adjacent to the water treatment plant.
Alexander Sargsyan, brother of former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, sold his mansion in Los Angeles for about $2 million last June.
Armenia’s national football team has dropped three spots, to 102nd place, in the FIFA World Ranking after its November losses in the Euro-2020 qualifying round.
The northern end of its runway is 45 meters higher than its southern end. In other words, the Jermuk runway is quite steep, a feature that can be seen with the naked eye.
The village of Amrakits, located near Stepanavan, a town in Armenia’s Lori Province, is best known for its St. Nicholas the Miracle Worker Russian Orthodox Church,
Starting next month, Armenia Airlines will launch round trip flights from Yerevan to Anapa, a town of some 80,000 on Russia’s Black Sea coast near Krasnodar.
This retreat is the result of October's unsuccessful matches, in which Armenia first drew 1-1 with Liechtenstein, then lost 0-3 to Finland.
Although the An-72 that crashed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on October 10, bore an Armenian registration, it was not Armenian.
Hetq has uncovered the owner of the plane used by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and his entourage on their recent trip to the United States and back.
The Armenian Police Department has confirmed that Colonel Babken Sedrakyan, the Head of the Police Department’s Operative Investigation Unit, has been dismissed from its ranks.
On the way to Kapan, the provincial capital of Syunik, many tourists mistake Armenia’s largest tailings dump for a beautiful lake, a “blue gem”.
But obstacles remain. Mr. Karamyan told Hetq that it wouldn’t be conducive for Taron-Avia to launch flights to Russia since existing anti-competitive issues haven’t been resolved.
Armenian government officials and businesspeople have flocked to Dubai in recent years, following rich people from around the world who have bought property in the Emirati desert city known as a haven for tax evasion and money laundering.
When paying a visit to the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography NAS RA, it’s common to find piles of boxes all over the building. These boxes contain excavated materials from different parts of Armenia.
Weapons exported from around the world have wound up in the conflict.
Khachatryan and his partner, Abbey King Khawaja, own 50% each in the new company, Sunik Investments Limited.
A recent media investigation on Armenian criminal gangs operating in Germany has thrown a minor monkey wrench in diplomatic relations between Yerevan and Berlin.
Hovk, a village of some 400 inhabitants in Armenia’s Tavoush Province, was inhabited by Azeris in the Soviet era. Armenians here in the late 1980s.
On February 2, 2018, former Armenian Minister of Culture Armen Amiryan sold a private house he purchased for $1.2 million, in Glendale, California, for $2 million. This isn’t the only property he owns in the U.S. Amiryan served as the director of Armenia Public Radio from 1997-2015 and culture minister from 2016-2018. He also founded the Armenakob TV station, which he later sold.
Armenia’s Central Electoral Commission reports that 294,534 voters out of an electorate of 848.343 went to the polls.
The Akanates monitoring group is comprised of the Transparency International Anti-Corruption Center, Asparez Journalists Club, and the Restart Political Initiative.
Vazashen is a village of some 871 in Armenia’s Tavush Province, just a few hundred meters from Azerbaijani military trenches on the border.
Armenian Ambassador to Iran Artashes Tumanyan, and his family, have sold their shares in Unitezza Group LLC, a company they founded in Prague in 2008.
One of the largest tailing dumps in Armenia is only 800 meters from the Yerevan-Meghri highway, passing through Kapan, the provincial capital of Syunik.
Hetq military sources say that the Azerbaijani military exercises were severely hindered due to the power outage, and that Azerbaijani counter-air defense systems have been compromised.
If 700-800 tons of ore are transported daily to Yerevan, they should at least get an order for 40 tons (2 trucks).
In his disclosure, Deputy Prime Minister also announced a stock with a price of 5,023 drams. This should actually be 502.3 million AMD, since it’s his share of Ardshinbank CJSC, where he owns 1.000056% of shares (the charter capital of the bank is 50,227 million AMD).
Today, the Committee responded, saying that it had sent a formal request to Artashes Tumanyan, Hovik Abovyan and Karen Ghahramanyan, asking them to provide their side of the story in the matter.
Several Armenian officials and their relatives invest in the Czech Republic for various purposes.
FIFA released its world ranking of national football teams and Armenia’s position remains unchanged from April at 98th place.
Artur Vanetsyan, recently appointed to head Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS), isn’t the only one in his family who holds a government post.
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