Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan has directed his staff to formulate a plan to organize a number of small farmers markets within Yerevan.
Journalists around the world today joined the International Press Institute (IPI) in condemning Turkey’s continued imprisonment of investigative journalist and IPI World Press Freedom Hero Nedim Şener, one year after he was detained in connection with an alleged coup plot.
The latest development in the alleged sexual molestation of a 14 year-old girl in the village of Hartashen is that the mayor, implicated in the case, will soon be arrested.
On March 2, Aram Hovsepyan, a presiding judge at the Armavir Regional Court, overturned the dropping of criminal charges after reviewing the petition of the boy’s parents.
The question remains as to whether Mayor Margaryan is capable of making a decision that goes against the grain and thus depart from “business as usual”.