Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader pled not guilty to skimming public funds, at the start of the Fimi Media trial on Monday. Sanader was charged with creating slush funds for his political party, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), as well as for taking money for his personal use. HDZ itself is a defendant, making this the first trial against a political party in Croatia.
Yesterday, five residents of the Aghvanatoun village in Armavir, tool 30,000 bunches of fresh tarragon to the Armenian customs house of Bavra on the Georgian border. They planned to sell their produce on the other side.
ANC - But the slogan’s formulation is quite a retreat. In 2008, the ANC was talking about victory. Coupled with loudspeakers blaring Beethoven’s 9th symphony, it was all quite intoxicating. It was a time of self-confidence and no concessions.
Bavra Bureaucracy: Armenian Tarragon Farmers Not Allowed Into Georgia; Produce Rots
As the authorities in Azerbaijan encourage people displaced by the Nagorny Karabakh war two decades ago to come back to villages near the front line of the now-frozen conflict, many of the settlers say security and economic conditions are not yet good enough to prompt a mass return.
Responding to yesterday’s incident in the village of Teghout, the Vallex Group has issued a statement calling on all sides to wait until the local police have completed their investigation.
Teghut Residents' Protest
Residents blocked the road in force after an incident took place yesterday in which security staff of the Armenian Copper Programme’s subsidiary Teghout Ltd. had beat up several villagers.
Women’s rights activists in Georgia say a new TV show highlights a wider culture of sexism in what is still a male-dominated society.
Bishop Ajapahyan argued that participating in such an event would mean participating in the adulation of Azerbaijani films.
Shahen Meghryan, a military commander of the Shahumyan defense forces in the Artsakh War, was killed on April 17, 1993, when his helicopter was shot down over the village of Gyulistan.
Residents claim that members of the Armenian Copper Programme’s (ACP) security staff were irked when a local drove his car by, stirring up dust.
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