I met Dr. Joel Sargsyan at his clinic in Lyon.
Today it is hard to say whether or not the Armenian service of “Radio Liberty” will come to an end. It is only clear that Armenia's authorities are trying to cease the work of the last free media source that reaches its population.
On June 28, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg issued its first verdict against the Republic of Armenia, which included a fine of 4,000 Euros.
According to residents of Atan, a village of 400 in the Lori Marz, there has been an outbreak of disease among their livestock that has lasted for fifteen or twenty days now.
On June 27, the Investigative Board of the National Security Service (NSS) presented a motion to the Court of First Instance of the Kentron and Nork-Marash Municipalities to extend by two months the pre-trial detention of Alexander Arzoumanian, the former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Armenia who was arrested on May 7, 2007 on charges of money laundering. The courts will review the motion, which calls for detaining Arzoumanian till September...
On the morning of June 26 th all the residents of Akhalkalaki were asking each other the same question.
Furniture-making brothers Garik and Artyom Babajanyan needed five hundred dollars to buy a truck.