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Caviar will be produced in Artsakh
Monday, 06 April 2015 19:01

The preparatory works are developing in accordance with the schedule A few months ago, many in Artsakh took the prospect of producing caviar here with skepticism and distrust, but today, everybody is looking forward to the results of the started program. The program is implemented according to a fixed timetable. The investors are the Swiss, and the area of impementation is the border-adjacent village of Madaghis. Black caviar will be produced in Artsakh. “The first building is already built. A social-purposes building near it is to be completed. It is a two-storey building. The first floor will serve for social needs, and the second floor will comprise dwelling rooms”, said head of the 'Himnakar' company implementing the construction works Serj Poghosian. It means the fulfillment of the first stage of the works. In the nearby area, the preparatory works are completed. The whole area will be concreted. Soon they will start construction of ponds here. «The ponds will have covers. We took it into account while conducting the preparatory works», said my interlocutor. Along with the construction works, installation works are underway. If necessary, experts are invited from abroad. Part of the required equipment is already delivered to Artsakh. Soon, conceived caviar will be also imported. Fish will be incubated on the spot. It is already known when the first batch of caviar will be produced in Artsakh. “In 2019, we'll have the first batch of caviar. And before that, beginning from 2018, sturgeon meat production will start”, said Adviser to the NKR Prime Minister Aram Mkhoyan. On completing the program, 50-60 new jobs will be created in the border-adjacent village of Madaghis. Head of the Madaghis community Zaven Avanesian is looking forward to it the most. “It is important that women will have the chance to work there. Men have no problem with job. There are organizations operating in and around our village, providing jobs for the men of our village. We have no jobs for women. We hope to resolve this issue with the construction of the fishpond” said the head of the community. For the implementation of the program in Madaghis, about 30 million euro will be invested in the nearest 5 or 6 years. Norayr HOVSEPIAN

http://artsakhtert.com/eng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1751:-caviar-will-be-produced-in-artsakh&catid=6:economy&Itemid=18

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A New Kindergarden being build for Ivanyan Community in Askeran

[Eddo211]

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If you have the money roads passing through villages and the city in Artsakh would be the best thing you can do. You pay for permission to built from the cut throats and it makes no money, just connects strategic points keeping the line of contact in mind. the road must be made of strongest asphalt and concrete (this is where you can screwed by contractors) and be able to handle military heavy equipment.
You would have no income from it but that is OK. Seeing cities grow and population increasing is payoff enough.

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March 18, 2015 11:50

Restructuring programs of Karabakh’s liberated regions continue by efforts of Diaspora

The liberated territories of Karabakh, having strategic significance for the Armenians, need reconstruction and development. STEPANAKERT, MARCH 18, ARTSAKHPRESS: Taking into account those and the other essential factors, an increase of care of those areas by the individual initiatives has been noticed in recent years. “Armenpress” had a conversation with the founder of “Patriot” organization American-Armenian Stepan Sargsyan, who has a rich experience in such projects in the areas of Karvachar and Kashatagh of Artsakh. - Why exactly the villages of Kashatagh region? I also know that You have examined the needs of the residents of the liberated territories. What are the upcoming priorities of Your organization? - The choice of Karvachar and Kashatagh is due to their strategic importance and extreme great needs. Those regions connect the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic to the Republic of Armenia, but their liberation allows reducing the length of the front and focusing efforts on the eastern front of Artsakh. It should be added that the high mountains of Karvachar provide a substantial advantage of positions over the rival, which is the most important factor to establish military balance against the enemy with exceeding number of soldiers and arms. Also let's not forget, that Karvachar and Kashatagh have a significant economic potential, starting from the water resources, minerals and energy potential and ending with the great agricultural opportunities. Especially the plains and the climate of Kashatagh’s southern wing can make it our second Ararat plain. Eventually, in addition to all of the strategic arguments, this is our historic homeland, where after a cease of 200-year, the Armenian language is heard. The settlers have greater needs, than other regions. I must say the simplest thing: If in the our other areas people live in their ancestral homes and cultivate the ancestral gardens, which is passed by generations, people are forced to build home and garden from zero in these areas. The settlers have lived in homes by thatched floors, destroyed walls and etc. Let’s not discuss the infrastructure. There are many needs, the resettlement is very important and the necessary support and work are incomparable less. Whereas these regions have essential significance for the strengthening Armenian statehood. That's why we chose liberated region as our medium-term target of work.

http://artsakhpress.am/eng/news/1458...-diaspora.html

A good read Tsov. Thank you for posting it. Infrastructure is what needs to be built in these regions. If you have infrastructure then people will follow. Things like roads, hospitals, schools...are imperative.

[Tsov]

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March 18, 2015 11:50

Restructuring programs of Karabakh’s liberated regions continue by efforts of Diaspora

The liberated territories of Karabakh, having strategic significance for the Armenians, need reconstruction and development. STEPANAKERT, MARCH 18, ARTSAKHPRESS: Taking into account those and the other essential factors, an increase of care of those areas by the individual initiatives has been noticed in recent years. “Armenpress” had a conversation with the founder of “Patriot” organization American-Armenian Stepan Sargsyan, who has a rich experience in such projects in the areas of Karvachar and Kashatagh of Artsakh. - Why exactly the villages of Kashatagh region? I also know that You have examined the needs of the residents of the liberated territories. What are the upcoming priorities of Your organization? - The choice of Karvachar and Kashatagh is due to their strategic importance and extreme great needs. Those regions connect the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic to the Republic of Armenia, but their liberation allows reducing the length of the front and focusing efforts on the eastern front of Artsakh. It should be added that the high mountains of Karvachar provide a substantial advantage of positions over the rival, which is the most important factor to establish military balance against the enemy with exceeding number of soldiers and arms. Also let's not forget, that Karvachar and Kashatagh have a significant economic potential, starting from the water resources, minerals and energy potential and ending with the great agricultural opportunities. Especially the plains and the climate of Kashatagh’s southern wing can make it our second Ararat plain. Eventually, in addition to all of the strategic arguments, this is our historic homeland, where after a cease of 200-year, the Armenian language is heard. The settlers have greater needs, than other regions. I must say the simplest thing: If in the our other areas people live in their ancestral homes and cultivate the ancestral gardens, which is passed by generations, people are forced to build home and garden from zero in these areas. The settlers have lived in homes by thatched floors, destroyed walls and etc. Let’s not discuss the infrastructure. There are many needs, the resettlement is very important and the necessary support and work are incomparable less. Whereas these regions have essential significance for the strengthening Armenian statehood. That's why we chose liberated region as our medium-term target of work.

http://artsakhpress.am/eng/news/14584/restructuring-programs-of-karabakh%E2%80%99s-liberated-regions-continue-by-efforts-of-diaspora.html

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March 9, 2015 12:03

Artsakh’s representative David Hayrapetyan to participate in MuayThai World Championship From March 7 to 18 the World MuayThai (Thai boxing) Championship has been taking place in the capital of Thailand, Bangkok. STEPANAKERT, MARCH 9, ARTSAKHPRESS: According to the Facebook page of the NKR Association of Martial Arts, Davit Hayrapetyan from Artsakh takes part in the tournament under the direction of head coach Garegin Aghabalyan. And Armen Grigoryan represents the Republic of Armenia under the guidance of head coach, the President of Professional MuayThai Federation of Armenia Aram Abrahamyan. As the source transfers, the first fight of our athletes will take place today.

http://artsakhpress.am/eng/news/13895/artsakh%E2%80%99s-representative-david-hayrapetyan-to-participate-in-muaythai-world-championship.html

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If you check Yerevan to Stepanakert on Google maps, it already suggests you take the new highway to get to Stepanakert (Vardenis - Martakert). If Google maps is right, Yerevan to Stepanakert using the new highway takes 4 hours and 19 minutes while the old, traditional route takes 4 hours and 55 minutes. Not bad! We're saving almost 40 minutes.

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March 4, 2015 13:17

From year to year Artsakh becomes more attractive to foreign tourists

In recent years, tourism sphere of Artsakh has recorded a significant progress. And the fact that Artsakh is a part of the international tourism, already indicates of the great achievements in the field. STEPANAKERT, MARCH 4, ARTSAKHPRESS: The Adviser of the Head of the Department of Tourism and Historic Environment Preservation of the NKR Government Artak Grigoryan told the aforementioned in the interview with “Artsakhpress”. "According to statistics, during the period from 2007 to 2013 the number of foreign visitors to Artsakh has grown by an average of 40 percent. These statistical data refer only to the foreign citizens, that visited Artsakh. Data exclude the number of visitors to Armenia," Grigoryan said. If before independence there were 4 hotels in the country, after the declaration of independence high-class hotels with high level of customer service have been built continuously over the years. Currently, 42 hotel facilities with 1187 sleeping places, more than 25 equipped resorts are functioning in the country, the infrastructure has been improving. Tourism is a major source of imported foreign exchange. Thus, according to the observations of the Department of Tourism and Historic Environment Preservation, during 2014 tourists spent an amount nearly equal to 6.4 million US dollars. Additionally, Grigoryan assured that NKR is a very attractive country for investments - the legislative framework is completely formed, there are low interest rates for investments, flexible tax policy is implemented. Close collaboration exists between the government and the private sector in order to promote investment in the tourism sphere. "It should be noted that Artsakh has a great tourism potential. Marketing and infrastructure development complex projects are being organized to make this potential more recognizable and competitive and Artsakh - more attractive to foreign tourists," said the authorized representative of the sphere. During the last 10 years NKR has attended major international tourism exhibitions (Berlin, London, Moscow, Paris, Milan, Rimini, Madrid). In these exhibitions all the visitors and organizations, who are interested, are provided with the necessary information about the NKR tourism potential, informative literature, CDs of films are handed out as well. Moreover, the tourism potential of the NKR is presented in the Internet, particularly through the website www.karabakh.travel and the official pages in the main social networks. Referring to the recent comments of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry’s Press Service’s Head Khikmet Gadzhiev in the interview to "Trend" news agency, that there is allegedly a security problem for tourists in Artsakh, A. Grigoryan noted that since Karabakh has been a part of the international tourism, the safety of all the tourists visiting the country is guaranteed, and no tourist faces a threat or any kind of danger in Artsakh, so Azerbaijani official’s statements are complete disinformation. "The so-called" black list" created by Azerbaijan is nothing like a violation of human rights of free movement, obtaining and dissemination of information, enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Along with the aforesaid, the "black list" contradicts a number of fundamental principles set out in the Global Code of Tourism Ethics, the International Tourism Charter, the Charter of the UN World Tourism Organization and others," Grigoryan concluded.

http://artsakhpress.am/eng/news/13624/tarectari-arcakhn-aveli-gravich-e-darnum-otarerkrya-zbosashrjikneri-hamar-olorti-pataskhanatu.html

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Strong Economic Growth Reported in Artsakh

STEPANAKERT (RFE/RL)—Economic growth in Nagorno-Karabakh has averaged about 10 percent annually in the past several years and will continue unabated in 2015, according to the authorities in Stepanakert. Ara Harutiunian, Artsakh’s Prime Minister, made upbeat macroeconomic forecasts on Thursday as his cabinet pushed through the republic’s parliament its budget for next year envisaging a sizable increase in public spending. The spending target of 88.1 billion drams ($192 million) is based on a projection that the Karabakh economy will expand by 9 percent in 2015. “A real GDP increase of 9 percent in 2015 and rapid growth in following years are expected to result from the development of energy, agriculture, light industry, food processing, mining, information technology and other sectors,” Harutiunian told lawmakers, according to the Artsakhpress news agency. According to the most recent official data, Artsakh’s GDP, equivalent to over $410 million in 2013, increased in real terms by about 8 percent in January-September 2014 thanks to more than 21 percent rises in industrial output and construction. The two sectors generated between them 58 percent of GDP. By contrast, the local agricultural sector contracted by as much as 23 percent in the nine-month period apparently because of severe consequences of a blizzard that swept through Armenia and Karabakh in late March. The sector accounted for only one-quarter of economic activity in Artsakh, which used to be heavily dependent on agriculture. In Harutiunian’s words, recent years’ growth has translated into thousands of new jobs in republic still recovering from the 1991-1994 war of independence from Azerbaijan. “The total number of employed workers rose from 41,000 in 2007 to 50,300 in 2014,” he said. Thousands of other, mostly male Karabakh Armenians are part of the local military closely integrated with Armenia’s armed forces. Harutiunian emphasized that annual subsidies from the Armenian government will finance 52 percent of Karabakh’s 2015 budgetary spending, down from 60 percent in 2007 and 73 percent in 2000. He said that a large part of the budgetary transfers from Yerevan are taxes collected from goods imported to Artsakh from outside Armenia. This means, he said, that Artsakh is not as financially dependent on Armenia as many people think. Harutiunian further stressed the fact that state revenue is projected to rise substantially in 2014 despite decreased tax contributions from Artsakh’s largest corporate taxpayer, the Base Metals company mining copper and gold in the northern Martakert district. Base Metals, which is part of Armenia’s Vallex Group mining giant, is increasingly switching its operations to a new and larger ore deposit in Martakert. Its production volumes should therefore grow in the coming years. According to official statistics, the average monthly salary in Karabakh rose by 20 percent year on year to 130,400 drams ($300) in September, compared with 173,000 drams in Armenia. The Armenian economy has grown far more slowly since 2010.

http://asbarez.com/130231/strong-economic-growth-reported-in-artsakh/