Twenty-four suspects from eight countries were arrested in Card Shop, an operation that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is describing as “the largest coordinated international law enforcement action in history directed at ‘carding’ crimes.”
During our recent trip through Syunik, we spotted smoke rising from the former Micro-Engine Factory in Goris. But it wasn’t smoke from the factory’s assembly line. An elderly couple, Roma and Larisa Ishkhanyan, were busy distilling mulberry vodka
Distilling Mulberry Vodka Along the Banks of the Vorotan River in Goris
At today’s Euro 2012 semi-final match, the unstoppable German juggernaut takes on the experience of the Italians. It is a match-up with a long history.
The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has unanimously approved a bill to impose financial and visa sanctions on foreign officials connected to human rights abuse. The bill is named after Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian anti-graft lawyer who was allegedly tortured to death in prison in 2009.
Haykuhi Gevorgyan, Director of the Youth Professional Orientation Centre, told reporters that the jobs most in demand today in Armenia are chiefs, retailers and the IT sector professionals.
RA Deputy Prime Minister Armen Gevorgyan is heading an Armenian delegation on a two day working visit to Artsakh for meetings with their counterparts.
RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan stated today that the government would be raising the licensing standards for the importation of vodka, and thus levelling the playing field in favour of domestic producers.
Yerevan Police Chief Narsik Nazaryan today confirmed that some of those arrested in the Harsnakar restaurant beating of army physicians included members of MP Ruben Hayrapetyan’s personal staff of bodyguards.
Despite being neighbors, there are no flights between Tbilisi, Georgia and Yerevan, Armenia. No reason to bother with air travel from one poor country to another, I suppose, the demand just isn’t there.
Ara Babloyan, who heads the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Health Care, Maternity and Childhood, told reporters today that a majority of Armenian citizens would be covered by universal health insurance in the next 5-10 years.
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“The closing of the independent and influential press and that fact that top-notch reporters are leaving Artsakh shows just how much freedom of speech isn’t protected,” Balasanyan wrote.
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