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Amulsar: Counter-Questions Raised

November 9, 2019 Garen Yegparian 0

The recent success in Congress is plenty to crow about, but must not so consume us that we lose sight of other very important issues confronting Armenians. In this respect, the Amulsar gold mine, owned […]

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Amulsar, It Keeps Getting Worse

October 4, 2019 Garen Yegparian 7

If you’ve been following Armenian news at all, you’re aware that the proposed gold mine at Amulsar (which interestingly, coincidentally, translates to “Impotent Mountain” – you’ll see why below) is a very hot issue in […]

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Amulsar Update

September 13, 2019 Garen Yegparian 3

In the three weeks since I last addressed the Amulsar gold mine issue, it has remained heated and not yet resolved for the better. Prime Minister Pashinyan had held a meeting on August 19th in […]

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Armenian Government Still Undecided on Amulsar Issue

September 4, 2019 Raffi Elliott 14

YEREVAN—The Armenian government has yet again postponed any ruling on the safety of the controversial Amulsar gold mine. At a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Minister of Environmental Protection Eric Grigoryan briefed the Prime Minister on […]

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Armenian Government Reviewing Amulsar Impact Study Again

August 27, 2019 Raffi Elliott 9

YEREVAN—The latest independent environmental impact assessment (EIA) on the controversial Amulsar mining project has been turned over to the Ministry of Nature Protection for further review. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made that announcement less than […]

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Second Betrayal Brewing?

August 23, 2019 Garen Yegparian 1

Roughly two months ago, the government of the Republic of Armenia enacted a flat tax whose regressive effects will hurt those least able to afford it. This betrayal largely hit the same people who supported […]

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Techies, Entrepreneurs Talk Business at Seaside Startup Summit

August 7, 2019 Raffi Elliott 1

SEVAN—Residual smoke billowed in the air from newly extinguished campfires, as the last tents collapsed along the shores of Armenia’s Lake Sevan. The 2019 Seaside Startup Summit had officially closed. A record-breaking 10,000 people attended […]

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Kalavan: Once an Obscure Village in Armenia, Now Gaining International Fame

December 12, 2018 Adroushan Andy Armenian 3

Far away in the mountains of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia near Lake Sevan, there’s an insignificant and inaccessible village known as Kalavan. Its population of 108 inhabitants are mostly survivors from Sumgait, Azerbaijan who […]

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