‘Everyone will benefit, only we will suffer’: an Armenian village fights for its survival, 06 January 2023

...Like most people in the village, the Ghazaryans depend on their family land and the pastures around the village for their income, sustaining themselves with small-scale agriculture and cattle farming. But a new development project in the area threatens their lands and their way of life. 

The development aims to turn the land next to the village and part of the village itself into a recreational area with hotels, casinos, and ski slopes, as well as setting up a free trade zone for low-tax investments.

While this might look like a promising plan to attract investment to an underdeveloped region, residents of the village say they have been excluded from the process from its inception...

Since early this year, the village’s residents have gathered for protests in the village and in front of the government offices in Yerevan. But the construction of the resort is becoming more active day by day...