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Catching whitefish will become more expensive: Armenia intends to raise state duties
Deputies of the National Assembly of Armenia approved, in the first reading, a bill amending the Tax Code, proposing to double environmental fees and triple the fee ... ... triple the fee for catching whitefish. Currently, the fee for catching whitefish is 65 drams per kilogram, while the fee for hunting or catching other species is 50 drams. The new bill proposes increasing the fee for catching whitefish to 200 drams. As ...
03/05/2025Minister proposes to triple whitefish catch duty
Armenia’s Minister of Environment, Hakob Simidyan, presented a bill to the deputies to amend the Tax Code, proposing to double ... ... Agriculture, and the Environment, Simidyan noted that the current fee for catching whitefish is 65 drams per kilogram, while for hunting or catching other species, the fee is 50 drams. Under the new proposal, the fee for whityefish would increase to 200 drams ...
02/25/2025Armenia bans imports of cattle, meat and by-products from Turkey and Jordan
Armenia has banned the import of cattle, meat and by-products from Turkey and Jordan because of foot-and-mouth disease in both ... ... goats, embryos of cattle and pigs, milk and milk products, meat, meat products, hides, intestinal raw materials, hog bristles, hunting trophies, feed and feed additives (except for additives containing synthetic and chemical substances). The ban comes after ...
05/22/2023Defense Ministry: 4 casualties on Armenian side, 6 wounded, numerous casualties on Azerbaijani side
Four Armenian soldiers were killed and 6 others wounded in an exchange of fire provoked by the Azerbaijani side on April 11 near the ... ... relatively stable. The renewed fighting came one day after Armenian security forces had detained one Azerbaijani man and were hunting for another, who were said to have crossed into Armenia from Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhichevan.-0-
04/12/2023Armenian parliament passes new version of law on regulation of firearms
By a vote of 65, the Armenian parliament passed Wednesday a new version of the law that regulates acquisition, possession and use of firearms by civilians ... ... theoretical and practical training. Also, the new version abolishes a mandatory requirement that one has to be a member of a hunting association to be eligible for purchasing firearms. The period of validity of a permit to possess and carry firearms is ...
10/06/2022Armenia bans imports of some types of meat and meat products from 4 countries
Armenia's Food Safety Inspection Body has restricted imports of certain types of meat, meat products, raw materials and fodder ... ... ruminants, * raw materials, skin, guts, bristles (pig) from cattle susceptible to FMD and slaughtered in slaughterhouses as well as hunting trophies, * feed and feed additives containing components of animal origin obtained from animals susceptible to FMD (except ...
01/17/2022Hunting season opens in Armenia
Armenia’s Ministry of Environment announced today the opening of the annual hunting season, saying it has designated the list of legally huntable species and the dates and the areas where they can be can be killed in 2021-2022. YEREVAN, August 13. /ARKA/. Armenia’s Ministry of Environment announced today the opening of ...
08/13/2021Police in Ijevan hunting for man who threatened to blow up hand grenade in credit organization’s office
Police in the Armenian town of Ijevan, the administrative capital of Tavush region are looking for a man who entered the office of the local branch of Fast Credit Capital company and threaten the employee with a hand grenade demanding money. YEREVAN, August 5. /ARKA/....
08/05/2021Armenia's economy in 2020 shrank by 7.6 percent
... according to official numbers, released today by the National Statistical Committee (NSC). YEREVAN, February 22. /ARKA/. Armenia's economy shrank last year by 7.6% from the previous year, according to official numbers, released today by the National ... ... amounted to 6,183,742,1 million drams. According to NSC, processing industry in 2020 accounted for 12.4% of GDP. The agriculture, hunting and forestry, fishing and fish farming accounted for 11.7% and wholesale and retail trade - for 10. 9%. The share of activities related to real ...
02/22/20219.1% year-on-year decline reported in Armenia's GDP in 3rd Q 2020
... preliminary data, Armenia's GDP shrank 9.1% in the third quarter of 2020, compared to the same period a year before, the National Statistical Committee of Armenia reports. However, compared to the previous quarter, GDP grew by 38.6%. In the nominal volume of Armenia's GDP amounted to 744 942.4 million drams in the third quarter of 2020. According to the statistical report, agriculture, hunting and forestry, fishing and fish farming accounted for the largest share in the structure of GDP in the third quarter - 17.1%, while in the second quarter it accounted for only 10.8%. The next largest result is industry's - 12% (in the second quarter of 2020 - 12.6%),...
11/25/2020Armenian military police officers found weapons in a car trunk driven from Artsakh to Armenia
On October 29, military police officers in the Armenian town of Sisian checked a Mitsubishi Pajero car, driven by a military unit worker identified as B. M., the Ministry ... ... driven by a military unit worker identified as B. M., the Ministry of Defense of Armenia reported. It said a double-barreled hunting rifle was found in the trunk of the car. B.M. was taken to the Sisian Department of the Military Police, where, during ...
10/30/2020Armenian economy expands by 3.8 percent in first quarter of 2020
Armenia's economic expansion in the first quarter of 2020 amounted to 3.8% compared to the same period in 2019, reaching 1 trillion ... ... GDP growth in the first quarter of this year slashed by 38.8%. According to the NSC, in the first quarter of 2020 agriculture, hunting and forestry, fisheries and fish farming recorded an increase of 4.4%, the industry, including energy production increased ...
05/21/2020Former president of FFA comes out of police station
Former president of the Football Federation of Armenia (FFA) Ruben Hayrapetyan came out of a police station in Yerevan and showed reporters a permission to have arms. YEREVAN,... ... police station earlier today on suspicion of illegal possession of arms. He told reporters that he has one combat gun and two hunting rifles. Hayrapetyan claimed that his detention was a show designed to scare him and his associates. Earlier it was reported ...
02/04/2020Head of Armenia’s National Security Service proposes banning all types of hunting
The head of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) Artur Vanetsyan proposed banning all types of hunting in the country. Vanetsyan made the proposal last Friday at a cabinet session which looked into a set of legislative changes, calling for tougher penalties for poaching, including a 100 million dram ($207,500) penalty for shooting Caucasian leopard,...
05/13/2019Illegal fishing and hunting cause 10 million drams in damages annually
Around 200 cases of illegal fishing and hunting are reported in Armenia annually, Arthur Beglaryan, the head of a nature protection ministry’s department in charge of biodiversity and environment monitoring, told a news conference today. YEREVAN, March 19. /ARKA/. Around 200 cases of illegal fishing and hunting ...
03/19/2018Dendrological park to be created on Byurakan observatory territory
Armenia’s nature protection minister Artsvik Minasyan and the director of the Byurakan Observatory Areg Mikaelyan signed an ... ... measures to that end. There are 34 specially protected natural areas in Armenia now, which include national parks, reserves and hunting grounds. Their total area is 383,000 hectares. -0-
11/20/2017New specially protected area to be created in Armenia
A new specially protected area will be created in Armenia, the nature protection ministry reported today, saying that the idea comes from the National Academy of Sciences, which ... ... specially protected area. There are now 34 specially protected natural areas in Armenia, including national parks, reserves and hunting grounds. Their total area is 383 thousand hectares. -0-
09/11/2017Government set to establish shorter deadlines for vat return
... Prime Minister issued a number of instructions. YEREVAN, September 8, /ARKA/. Chaired by Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan an Armenian Cabinet sitting was held September 7, the government press office said. It said before proceeding to the agenda, the ... ... shorter deadlines for VAT returns in case of export by grape processing companies. Referring to the prevention of illegal crawfish hunting, the Head of Government instructed the Minister of Nature Protection to rule out the prolongation or the renewal of those fishing permits granted for the past few years. In addition, the Ministry willl work out and submit to the Government Staff within ...
09/08/2017Two men killed in Armenia – police
Armenia’s police released today new details of the conflict on one of Lake Sevan’s beaches, which resulted in the killing ... ... At 19:05 on the 62nd kilometer of Yerevan-Sevan-Ijevan road he forced the latter to go out of the car and fired at him from a hunting riffle. Edgar Hovhanisyan gave himself up to the police and submitted the hunting gun registered to his name. The inquiry ...
07/31/2017Temporary ban imposed on crayfishing in Armenia
... crawfish hunting in the country, the press office of the ministry reports. YEREVAN, May 16. /ARKA/. Artsvik Minasyan, Armenian nature protection minister, signed a decree on Monday prohibiting temporarily crawfish hunting in the country, the press office of the ministry reports. The ban is in force from May 15 to July 31 – the breeding ... ... minister instructed the head of the Sevan National Park to tighten grip on the coastal territories of Lake Sevan. This year, crayfishing was limited by the environment ministry to 3,000 tons, of which 1,100 from Sevan, while in 2016 the limit stood at 3,600 ...
05/16/2017Russia’s prosecutor general office to request from U.S. justice department materials of Sergey Mironov case
... Justice Department the materials of the criminal case against Sergey Mironov, a Russian citizen, had been arrested last Friday in Armenia’s Zvartnots Airport at the United States’ request on charges of an illegal transfer of military technologies and money ... ... then he will be prosecuted in his homeland, TASS reports. Earlier, Russia’s foreign ministry said that the United States is hunting for Sergey Mironov as part of its anti-Russia revenge campaign. ---0--
09/01/2016Employment restrictions for labor migrants in Russia’s Novosibirsk region don’t apply to Armenian citizens
... transport and extract mineral resources. Additionally, they cannot obtain positions in the sphere of finance, as well as in hunting and fishing, in the wholesale timber trade and in children’s food production. They will no longer be allowed to work in the field ... ... Ukraine, Moldova and Azerbaijan and doesn’t apply to the Eurasian Economic Union member countries – Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. --0----
08/18/2016Armenian special investigation agency finds two men as suspects in Sari Tagh battering case
Armenia’s special investigation agency continues investigating the incident in Yerevan’s Sari Tag, where people supporting ... ... detention pending trial. Hence, four citizens have already been found and the special investigation agency says it will keep hunting for other people for prosecution. --0----
08/17/2016Some 200,000 trout juveniles sent to Lake Sevan
... provision of baby fishes that is being run by the fish reserve restoration and fishery promotion foundation, the press office of Armenia's nature protection ministry reports. YEREVAN, July 14. /ARKA/. Some 200,000 trout juveniles have been put into Lake ... ... November, and results will be visible in one or two years. «It is necessary to enhance public awareness to lessen illegal fish hunting here in spawning season,» the minister said. Sevan is one of the largest mountainous lakes in Europe and Asia. It sits ...
07/14/2015Head of rehabilitation center accuses sects of spying on Armenian military
Various sects have begun to actively penetrate Armenian security forces and the army, Alexander Amaryan, head of a center for rehabilitation and assistance to victims of destructive ... ... it is well aware of it. He added that since all sects in Armenia are financed and controlled from abroad, in addition to soul hunting, they could be collecting also secret information about Armenian military. He said an analysis of geographical location ...
12/11/2013Armenia’s economy more liberal than EU countries’ economies
Armenia’s economy is more liberal than EU countries’ economies, Beatriz Paglieri, the head of the Argentine Economy Ministry’s ... ... and for construction of houses ($565,000), and $3.3 million has been invested in plant-growing and cattle-breeding businesses, hunting and related services. ----0---
10/17/2013Armenian prosecutors deny reports that lawyer’s murder was related to his professional activity
Armenia’s Prosecutor General’s Office denied media reports claiming that the murder of a lawyer, Samvel Sharbatyan, last week ... ... seized Sharbatyan’s gun and fired several shots in his direction, causing him multiple injuries. The police said they are hunting for Aren Veranyan and Samvel Diloyan, who were also involved in the squabble. -0-
11/21/2012Police detain a suspect in lawyer’s murder
Armenian law-enforcement authorities said they had detained yesterday Artak Veranyan, 33, who is suspected of killing a lawyer ... ... seized Sharbatyan’s gun and fired several shots in his direction, causing him multiple injuries. The police said they are hunting for Aren Veranyan and Samvel Diloyan, who were also involved in the squabble. -0-
11/20/2012Expert: Enlargement of fine size ineffective tool for combating poaching
... ineffective tool for combating poaching. YEREVAN, May 19. /ARKA/. Inga Zarafyan, head of Ecolur non-governmental organization, finds enlargement of fine size ineffective tool for combating poaching. “It seems that enlarging size of fine for poaching, Armenian Nature Protection Ministry sells our nature,” she said at a news conference on Tuesday. “I find it wrong to measure everything with money.” Today, the fine for illegal hunting starts from AMD 3 million (about $7,500), and the fine for hunting in protected territories is five times greater. Zarafyan said that the moufflon, the leopard and the bezoar goat, which are at the verge of extinction, are the most attractive ...
05/20/2010June 2009 average monthly salary in Armenia to be 102,787 AMD, increase of 11.6%
According to preliminary estimates of the National Statistical Service of RA, the nominal average monthly salary in Armenia in June 2009, amounted to 102,787 drams ($ 280, or 200 Euros), represents an 11.6% increase rate from June 2008. YEREVAN,... ... low-paid workers are employed in the fisheries – 60,333 AMD, health and social services – 63,606 AMD, agriculture, hunting and forestry – 67,335, provision of public utilities, social and personal services - 72,899 AMD ($1 – 369,...
08/01/200915.7% economic decline recorded in Armenia in January-May 2009 - statistics
... January-May 2009 against analogue period of previous year. YEREVAN, June 30. /ARKA/. A 15.7% economic decline was recorded in Armenia in January-May 2009 against analogue period of previous year. The RA National Statistical Service reports that the Gross ... ... decline caused 1.9 pct of economic decline (against zero variation in January-May 2008). 2.8% fall of agriculture, forestry, hunting and fishing caused 0.3 pct decline in GDP actual volume, (0.8 pct in January-May 2008). The 1.8% increase recorded in the financial ...
07/01/20096.1% economic decline recorded in Armenia in January-March 2009
....2pct negative effect on economic growth (against 0.1pct growth in January-March 2008). 5% reduction in agriculture, forestry, hunting and fishing had minus 0.4pct effect on GDP over the period under review against 0pct effect in January-March 2008. 1.1% compression ... ... of the GDP. GDP per capita was 143,729Drams or $441 (339 Euros) for January-March 2009. 9.2% economic growth was recorded in Armenia in January-March 2008. Under the state budget, 9.2% growth of GDP was expected in Armenia in 2009. ($1=372.22Drams). N....
05/01/2009Economic growth recorded in Armenia in 2008
... recorded in Armenia in 2008 against the previous year. YEREVAN, January 30. /ARKA/. A 6.8% economic growth was recorded in Armenia in 2008 against the previous year. The RA National Statistical Service reports that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) amounted ... ... (including energy sector) growth provided 2.2pct of economic growth (4.9 pct in 2007). 1.3% growth of agriculture, forestry, hunting and fishing provided 0.2pct of the economic growth. The 16.7% increase recorded in the financial sector and real estate transactions ...
01/31/2009Number of hunting grounds go up in Armenia under state program
A state program on raising the number of hunting grounds is to be implemented in Armenia, Chairman of the National Union of Armenian Hunters NGO Grigor Grigoryan told journalists. YEREVAN, August 25. /ARKA/. A state program on raising the number of hunting grounds is to be implemented in Armenia, Chairman of the National Union of ...
08/25/200810.3% Economic Growth Recorded in Armenia in H1 2008
... (including energy sector) provided 0.1pct of economic growth (0.5pct in January-June 2007). 8.3% growth of agriculture, forestry, hunting and fishing provided 0.9pct of the economic growth in the period. 22.8% growth recorded in financial sector and real estate transactions ... ... year. 11.6% economic growth was recorded in the first half of 2007. Under the state budget, 10% growth of GDP is expected in Armenia in 2008. ($1=301.03Drams). –0--
08/06/2008Construction, agriculture and services contribute to Armenia’s 2007 economic growth
Construction, agriculture and services have contributed a great deal to Armenia’s 2007 economic growth, UN Economic and Social Commission said after reviewing Asian and Pacific regions. YEREVAN,... ... growth grew 13.7% in 2007 in Armenia.Construction added 4.5 points to GDP by growing 18.4% in 2007. Agriculture, forest economy, hunting and fishery drove the economic growth 1.7 percentage points up after growing 9.6% over 2007. Services’ 12.4% growth ...
04/02/20089.9% economic growth recorded in Armenia in January 2008
... against 2006. The volume of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was 101,203.9mln Drams (in current prices) in the period under review, Armenia’s National Statistical Service reported. GDP produced was 23.6% higher than the level in the previous month. GDP ... ... sector) provided 0.03pct of economic growth (0.1% recession in the field). Unchanged production output in agriculture, forestry, hunting and fishing had no impact on the economic growth. 5.9% increase recorded in the services field provided 2.3pct increase in the GDP ...
03/03/200813.7% economic growth recorded in Armenia in 2007
... against 2006. The volume of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was 3,139,353.9mln Drams (in current prices) in the period under review, Armenia’s National Statistical Service reported. GDP produced in December 2007 was 35.8% higher that the level in the previous ... ... (including energy sector) provided 0.6pct of economic growth (growth in industry 3.2%). 9.6% growth of agriculture, forestry, hunting and fishing provided 1.7pct of the economic growth. The 12.4% increase recorded in the services field provided 4pct increase in the ...
02/01/200813.6% economic growth recorded in Armenia in Jan-Nov 2007
... of 2006. The volume of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was 2,711,420.7mln Drams (in current prices) in the period under review, Armenia’s National Statistical Service reported. GDP produced in November was 17% lower as compared to the previous month.... ... (including energy sector) provided 0.6pct of economic growth (growth in industry 3.4%). 9.6% increase in agriculture, forestry, hunting and fishing provided 1.8pct of the economic growth. The 12.3% increase recorded in the services field provided 3.9pct increase in ...
12/28/2007Economic growth totals 13.2% in Armenia in Jan-Sept 2007
... reporting period. GDP increased by 0.4% in September as compared to August. YEREVAN, October 31. /ARKA/. Economic growth in Armenia totaled 13.2% in January-September 2007 as compared to the corresponding period in 2006. According to the RA National ... ... to industry, including the sphere of energy (2.6% increase of the field). 1.6pct growth was secured thanks to agriculture, hunting, fishing (8.3% increase of the field). Services increased by 13.9% and secured 4.2pct GDP growth (against 3.7pct in January-September ...
11/01/2007Supervision of hunting problematic in Armenia
Maintaining control over the legality of hunting in Armenia is problematic in Armenia, Chief Specialist of the State Nature Protection Inspectorate of the country’s Environmental Ministry Arthur Beglarian reported. YEREVAN, August 17. /ARKA/. Maintaining control over the legality of hunting in Armenia ...
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