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Romanian courts convicted two former ministers of corruption Tuesday in another move to show that it is taking corruption more seriously. Decebal Traian Remes and Ioan Avram Muresan, both former ministers of agriculture, each received three year prison sentences.
Lawyers representing the family of journalist Hrant Dink have requested that the Istanbul Deputy Chief Prosecutor’s Office file a criminal case against 24 public servants for their alleged role in the 2007 killing.
We are saddened to hear that President Obama has called for a drastic 19 percent reduction in economic assistance to Armenia in his latest budget request from Congress. The president has proposed $27,219,000 in aid for Armenia in his Fiscal Year 2013 (FY13) budget, which is nearly $12,781,000, or 32 percent less than the $40,000,000 approved by Congress for the previous fiscal year.
Concerned citizens say they will continue their vigil to stop further construction of stores at Mashtots Park in downtown Yerevan.
At today’s court case, in which the Jehovah’s Witnesses is suing the H1 TV station for slander, a prosecution lawyer motioned for a postponement so that her client could review the text of a retraction submitted by the defendant.
The Hayastan All-Armenian Fund’s French affiliate has launched the construction of a vocational school in the city of Shushi. The future institution will be named after French-Armenian benefactor Yeznik Mozian.
A Hetq reporter snapped this picture of a truck with no visible license plates loaded to the brim with cut timber. It was on the Goris-Kapan road.
You can find me picking through the trash along the streets of Leninakan around evening time. That’s why my hands are in such a state.
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