The newspaper Haykakan Zhamanak has declared that yesterday’s arrest of reporter Hayk Gevorgyan was a result of his journalistic activities and not due to some traffic accident as announced by the police.
Rumors had circulated that health problems might lead to some sort of mitigation of the sentence. This wasn’t the case even though Der-Boghossian was transferred to the court from a prison hospital.
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Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan visited today 365 Group and Murad Sar enterprises in Yerevan. Accompanied by Minister of Economy Tigran Davtyan and Minister of Agriculture Sergo Karapetyan, the head of government toured the entities getting acquainted with production processes and development programs.
Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan has instructed that a specialist unit be set-up tasked to register all the green areas in the city and take a count of the trees.
The RA Court of Appeals announced that it had found the appeal of convicted pedophile Serop Der-Boghossian baseless and would refuse to hear it.
This morning police arrested Haykanan Zhamanak reporter Hayk Gevorgyan on charges that he fled the scence of a traffic accident.
Armenian residents of Jerusalem's Old City are protesting a municipal decision to designate a parking lot in the area solely for Jews, although part of it stands on land belonging to the Armenian Patriarchate.
With contributions made by the German-Armenian community to Phoneathon 2011, the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund has launched an extensive renovation of the Gyumri Children’s Home orphanage.
Late last night, fire-fighters put out a small blaze on the 3rd floor of the Shirak Hotel in downtown Yerevan.
On a tip from the Haynews.am news site regarding illegal tree felling in the village of Garni, the Kotayk Regional Prosecutor directed local police to investigate.
The land squabble pitting Halidzor village residents against the Instate Management and Administration Company (IMAC) continues unabated.
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