It appears that Armenia’s State Committee for Economic Competitiveness Protection (SCECP) will not pursue the case to fine City Petrol Group (CPS) 100 million drams (US$212,000) on charges that the company had abused its position as a market leader.
Armavia, regarded as Armenia’s flying colors, could have continue to operate. However artificial its dominancy over the ruins of Armenian Airlines may appear, the liberalization of the aviation sector – with all its negative consequences - was equally natural. In the history of Armenian aviation, the ten years between 2003 and 2013 will perhaps go down as the Armavia decade, rich with the extreme ups and downs particular to the aviation...
Of note are the periodic contradictory statements of Baghdasarov and Armavia.
“I’m the only pigeon fancier left in the village,” Sargis boasted.
We walk down the dusty road in the village of Yeraskh towards the new house of Sergey Stepanyan.
In the Group 1 qualifiers for Euro-16, Armenia faces Portugal, now ranked 6th in the world. Armenia’s other opponents include Albania (22nd), Denmark (25th) and Serbia (66th).
Despite Baghdasarov’s estimate, in actuality Armavia flew over 800,000 passengers in 2010 (see the infograph above for number of passengers from 2003 to 2010). The discrepancy is incomprehensible —either Baghdasarov was needlessly disappointed or the company’s figure was inflated.
The Latin American team is followed, in descending order, by Germany, Belgium, Colombia, Holland, Brazil, Portugal, Romania, England and Wales.
On May 3, 2006 at 2:13 am local time near Adler Airport, Armavia’s Airbus A320-211 (EK- 32009), flight 967 en route to Sochi from Yerevan, crashed into the Black Sea.
Later on, many experts and company employees would draw comparisons between Siberia and the Baghdasarov eras, in favor of the former, pointing out poor management during the tenure of the Armenian oligarch that came to the fore in different ways and something that wasn’t even refuted at the top echelons of Armavia (while naturally pointing to the “faults” of others in the company’s failures).
There are three schools operating in Shoushi today (a senior, primary and high school), two kindergartens, a music school, and one teachers’ college. With financial assistance from a benefactor, there are plans to build another kindergarten for 100 children.
All this goes to show that in 2003 Armenian passenger aviation was controlled by these prominent oligarchs and, of course, Russian Siberia Airlines.
On April 30, a company called Taron-Avia operated a flight from Yerevan’s Zvartnots Airport to Amman, the capital of Jordan.
Armenia’s men’s team is on its way to win the Bronze medal at the 2015 World Team Chess Championship underway at the Armenian resort town of Tzaghkadzor.
Playing at home, Albania defeated Armenia and Portugal beat Serbia 2 -1 in yesterday’s EURO 2016 Group I qualifiers.
Armenia’s General Civil Aviation Department reports that the Iraqi Airways flight, linking Baghdad and Yerevan with a quick stopover in Erbil, will operate every Thursday and Sunday commencing March 5.
In September 2002, Armavia’s ownership was reshuffling. Liparit Poghosyan and Slavik Koshtoyan sold their shares to Natalya Filyova, from Novosibirsk, Russia, who is one of Russia’s wealthiest women today.
Armenia’s football team has risen five spots, to 74th place, in the latest FIFA rankings of 209 national squads.
But, if Mika Limited remains in the 8th round of creditors to be paid, it is difficult to see how Armavia’s assets will be sufficient to pay the money owed it. 152 creditors are ahead of Mika Ltd. in the waiting line.
The authorities are trying to create a closed-mouth society in which they can continue to enrich them and rule through unparalleled corruption
When taking into consideration Turkey’s tendency to build large reservoirs along the Arax River and the lower elevation of Azerbaijan, towards where Armenia’s rivers are flowing, reservoir construction is not only solving Armenia’s internal problems. Armenia’s fresh waters, against the backdrop of decreasing water resources, can become a strategic playing card in regional relations, with Armenia caught in between unfriendly neighbors.
According to the latest FIFA rankings of national football teams released today Armenia came in 79th, a drop of two spots, with an overall score of 436.
Since the Soviet era Armenia has implemented reservoirs as the most advantageous method for properly utilizing Lake Sevan and other bodies of water. That volume currently amounts to around 1.4 billion cubic meters.
Military analyst Davit Sofiyan believes that a panic stricken Azerbaijani military position fired upon an Armenian Mi-24 helicopter yesterday out of confusion.
Of the five individuals charged with supplying the Artskah Defense Army with buffalo meat instead of beef in 2012, only one was convicted in a September 18 verdict by the Syunik Provincial Court.
Earlier this month, Hetq published an article entitled “Artsakh Border Community School in Need: New Ping- Pong Tables Aren’t the Answer”highlighting the problems facing students and teachers at the Aknaberd School in Artsakh’snortherMartakert District.
Arsen Julfalakyan has been crowned world champion in the 75kg Greco-Roman category after beating Neven Zugaj earlier this evening at the 2014 World Wrestling Championship in Tashkent.
The star of the Armenian team at the 2014 World Wrestling Championship taking place in Tashkent has to be Arsen Julfalakyan in the 75kg Greco-Roman classification.
Today, more Armenian wrestlers got tossed out of the 2014 Wrestling World Championship taking place in Tashkent.
14 wrestlers from Armenia are representing the country at the 2014 Wrestling World Championship that kicked off yesterday in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.
Today, across Armenia and Artsakh, pupils are returning to school after the summer vacation.
The Armenian women's team came in fifth place at the 2014 Chess Olympiad, which is their best result in 26 Olympiads.
After three rounds of play at the 2014 Chess Olympiad in the Norwegian town of Tromsø, three time champion Armenia (men’s team) from Armenia find themselves in 39th place.
Armenian and Turkish protestors and their supporters once again organized simultaneous demonstrations outside the Turkish Embassy in Washington, D.C., on April 24, the day of the recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
Opponents, noting that the Iranian shepherds would be coming from the country’s East Azerbaijan Province, labeled the plan an environmental as well as national security threat to Armenia.
Kapan, capital of Armenia’s Syunik Province, is indeed a city replete with contrasts that the visitor will meet at every turn. All it takes is a brief walk down its streets, or better yet, head to the town’s marketplace which has seen better days.
With today’s loss to Dmitry Andreikin during the 13th round of the 2014 FIDE World Candidates Tournament at Khanty-Mansiysk, Levon Aronian is out of the race to challenge world chess champion Magnus Carlsen.
In eleventh round action today at the FIDE 2014 World Candidates Tournament in Khanty-Mansiysk Levon Aronian played to a draw with Peter Svidler.
After a tenth round draw with VeselinTobalov, Levon Aronian remains in second place at the FIDE 2014 World Candidates Tournament in Khanty-Mansiysk.
In ninth round action yesterday at the World Candidates Tournament in Khanty-Mansiysk, Armenia’s Levon Aronian (playing black) lost to Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan.
Levon Aronian played to a draw today with Viswanathan Anand in eighth round action at the 2014 FIDE World Candidates Tournament in Khanty-Mansiysk.
Today’s session in the Ajapnyak and Davtashen District Court, at which Lousabek Samvelyan, the former assistant to the president of the Norashen 2007 consumer cooperative charged with defrauding clients out of money paid for the purchase of apartments, was scheduled to testify in a Yerevan court tomorrow was postponed until March 28.
Hetq has learnt that Lousabek Samvelyan, the former assistant to the president of the Norashen 2007 consumer cooperative who has been charged with defrauding clients out of money paid for the purchase of apartments, will give testimony in a Yerevan court tomorrow.
Had he beat his opponent, who was at the bottom of the table, Aronian could have tied Anand for first place.
Playing black, Levon Aronian played to a draw with Russia’s Vlaimir Kramnik at the 2014 FIDE World Candidates Tournament in Khanty-Mansiysk.
Playing white, Aronian got the advantage over Russia's Peter Svidler and improved his position in the tournament, moving up to second place from third in the last round.
Svidler and Kramnik share second place with 2 points each. Topalov and Aronian are at 1.5 points, while Andreikin and Karjakin have 1 point each. Mamedyarov remained on 0.5 points.
An incentive program for drivers in Armenia might backfire says one insurance expert if the system used to check a driver's history is not improved.
On March 5, Armenia’s national football squad will play its first friendly match of the year against Russia in Krasnodar’s Kupan Stadium.
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