In 2016, The Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets (FPWC), an environmental NGO in Armenia, leased 5,000 hectares of land from the Vayots Dzor village of Vardahovit for 25 years.
Armenian National Assembly Speaker Alen Simonyan leaves for Moscow on October 9 to meet with Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin.