Topic: mining

By Vicken Aprahamian and Lori Manoukian Special to the Mirror-Spectator Setting the Stage Armenia’s involvement with mining dates back thousands of years. By 5000 B.C., the region’s inhabitants had discovered[...]

Azerbaijan preplanned the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh’s indigenous Christian population. With proceeds from BP’s multibillion Caspian deal and international assistance, President Ilham Aliyev purchased drones and artillery[...]

By John Harker, LL.D. John Harker is a world-renowned conflict resolution, social engagement and international development expert. He was Nelson Mandela’s special advisor and helped him set up South Africa’s[...]

CONCORD, New Hampshire (NHPR.org, AsiaTimes.com) – The Anglo Asian Mining company, in which Republican politician John Sununu, father of current New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu, is the second largest shareholder,[...]

YEREVAN (Reuters) — Anglo-American mining firm Lydian International on February 20 called on the Armenian government to help in solving a dispute with environmental protesters and to end their blockade[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Monday, September 16, accused environmental activists campaigning against the Amulsar gold mining project of misleading the public and said they must stop “demonizing”[...]

YEREVAN (Combined Sources) —  Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on September 9 asked the residents of Jermuk to open the roads leading to the Amulsar gold mine. He said that even[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Citing the findings of an independent environmental audit commissioned by his government, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced on Monday, August 19, his intention to allow an Anglo-American[...]