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.
In today’s Men’s Giant Slalom Competition at the Sochi Winter Olympics, 26 year-old American born Arman Serebrakian, skiing for Armenia, ranked 46th in the combined tally.
In today’s “Ladies’ 10km Classic” Armenia’s Katya Galystan came in 64th out of 76 competitors in the cross-country race.
Sergey Mikayelyan and Artur Yeghoyan are cross country skiers representing Armenia at the Sochi Winter Olympics.
Albert Ohanjanyan, accused of supplying the Artsakh Defense Army with frozen buffalo meat instead of beef last year, is compensating for damages incurred by building a 150,000 ton refrigerated unit (valued at US$181,000) from his own money.
As Hetq previously reported, about 1,400 tons of "super" fuel was imported the last time in 2008. However, this grade of gasoline can now be found in several gas stations in the country and especially the capital.
Though numerous gas stations especially in Yerevan offer "super" fuel in addition to "regular" and "premium," no such fuel has been imported in Armenia since 2008 (such fuel is practically non- existent outside the capital).
In the FIFA rankings published today, Armenia’s national football team has slipped three spots to 38th in the standings to 38th place
Vertir Airlines, an Armenian company owned by the uncle of the man who heads Armenia’s Civil Aviation Department, has been accused by the U.S. Commerce Department for acting as a middleman for an Iranian airline in order to circumvent U.S. sanctions.
Scores of protesters who had gathered outside the National Assembly in opposition to the scheduled January 1 launch of the mandatory individual pension system in Armenia, have now set their sights on the Preidential Palace.
This year's championship is a single round robin among ten teams - Armenia, Russia, USA, Germany, Turkey, Azerbaijan, China, Ukraine, Holland, and Egypt.
Enterprises violating the law are taking advantage of the shortcomings of the same law. So why aren’t these shortcomings being fixed? If a person can create a new company to participate in and win state tenders, what’s the sense of blacklisting a company registered under the same name and doing business in the same sector? Is it all for show?
With their 2.5 – 1.5 over Russia, Armenia’s men’s team hold third place at the European Team Chess Championship in Warsaw.
Air Armenia, which started to serve the Yerevan-Moscow route on October 27, has added a second plane to its fleet.
Movsesyan has maintained cool relations with government leaders, both past and present. However, by forming an entourage in the government to advance his business, Movsesyan and others are serious impediments to the development of Armenian aviation at this stage. If this current opportunity to liberalize the sector is missed, then there will be a new, and even more painful, retreat than witnessed in 2003.