January 14, 2013 at 16:39 | Human Rights, Environmental Policy
Armenia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has approved the final list of presidential candidates, registering eight of the 15 nominees who
Human Rights, Environmental Policy
January 11, 2013 at 17:26 | Human Rights, Environmental Policy | Yerevan
Nature Protection Minister Aram Harutyunyan commented on the public demand to resign. “We are in constant discussions with environmental structures, activists and public sector. We are not restrained with anything, we meet and speak on any issue. Unfortunately, there are some
January 11, 2013 at 17:12 | Human Rights, Environmental Policy | Yerevan
“The Minister’s actions don’t constituent element of offence and there are no grounds for the initiation of a criminal case,” says A. Badalyan’s letter, Senior Prosecutor of Department for Defense of State Interests of Public Prosecutor’s Office. This letter is addressed to
January 11, 2013 at 15:52 | Human Rights, Environmental Policy | Gegharkunik
It’s not excluded that Lake Sevan will turn into a fish farm. The fish farm owned by Emmi Fruit is already operating in the lake. Nature Protection Minister Aram Harutyunyan has positively valued this tendency. “If these experiments will work
January 11, 2013 at 15:07 | Human Rights, Environmental Policy
In 2012 two Armenian women – Lyuba Balyan and Mariam Martirosyan, headed for their trip to Everest.
January 11, 2013 at 12:41 | Human Rights, Environmental Policy
The Armenian Government has set the procedure for the payment and standards of monitoring, which shall be carried out for the purpose of securing safety and people’s health living in the places
January 10, 2013 at 15:13 | Human Rights, Environmental Policy | Kotayk
As substantiation, we bring an extract from the article by Sh. Amiryan, A. Karapetyan entitled “Mineralogical-geochemical characteristics of Meghradzor gold mine ores”, Bulletin of Academy of Sciences of Armenian SSR, XVII, N2, 1964. “...The content of gold was established in ores in spectral manner from 0.03% to 0.1 %, silver – from 0.1% to 0.3%, mercury – 0.01%, arsenic – over 10%
January 10, 2013 at 13:41 | Human Rights, Environmental Policy | Armavir
The expert drew attention to the fact that the construction of two high-voltage lines is planned, which will run to the neighboring countries and are designed for the export of electricity from the new NPP. “It turns out that we will supply electricity to our neighboring countries at the expense of our security"
January 10, 2013 at 13:11 | Human Rights, Environmental Policy | Yerevan
The Nature Protection Ministry spokesman Hayk hakobyan informed EcoLur that Nature Protection Ministry has referred the case of died fish to
January 09, 2013 at 15:13 | Human Rights, Environmental Policy | Ararat
Nature Protection Ministry sued “Hovazadzor” Company so as the company dismantled the illegal building in
January 09, 2013 at 12:52 | Human Rights, Environmental Policy
The government has approved the budget for the program of forest protection from 2013 to 2015. The program is designed for protecting forests from pests, recovery of forest territories exposing to degradation
January 09, 2013 at 11:46 | Human Rights, Environmental Policy
The residents don’t mention their names, refuse to talk in front of the cameras, but they insist that the fish had died and the ecology in the area had
January 09, 2013 at 10:51 | Human Rights, Environmental Policy | Kotayk
The department of Protection of State Interests of Public Prosecutor’s Office of Armenia has initiated a criminal case against the employees of “ArmForest” SNCO. The basis of the charge is that in 2009 they faked
January 08, 2013 at 12:03 | Human Rights, Environmental Policy | Aragatsotn | Ararat | Kotayk | Vayots dzor
Each mining company in Armenia considers it to be its duty to construct its own gold extraction plant. That’s why you can already 3 plants constructed in a tiny territory. Ararat gold extraction plant (Ararat Region) owned by GeoProMining Gold processes concentrate from Sotq gold ore and Meghradzor gold mine. Not far you can find
December 27, 2012 at 14:09 | Human Rights, Environmental Policy | Gegharkunik
For the first time Lake Sevan has a negative balance due to increase in water outlets from Lake Sevan up to 320 million cubic meters. The substantiated public protest joined by the residents of Gegharkounik region, as well as the opinion of Scientific
December 26, 2012 at 19:58 | Human Rights, Environmental Policy | Yerevan
Nature Protection Minister thinks the main achievements of 2012 in environment are the foundation of
December 26, 2012 at 18:48 | Human Rights, Environmental Policy | Syunik
“Trchkan” civic initiative is concerned that the negotiations between Armenia and Iran on leasing agricultural land areas in Syunik Region to Iranian Province - East Azerbaijan are run in closed settings. The activists have applied to Deputy Prime Minister
December 26, 2012 at 16:03 | Human Rights, Environmental Policy | Syunik
“Why there was no information about the pollution of the Norashenik River?” Nature Protection Minister Aram Harutyunyan was amazed at the press conference on 26 December, “find it out after the conference and report back to me.”