Belgrade’s spree of public mob killings continued Tuesday when a car bomb exploded on a busy city street, killing a Montenegrin with ties to fugitive Darko Saric’s drug empire. Radojica Joksovic, 32, died when a bomb exploded under the passenger seat of his Audi A6 in the White Water neighborhood.
Turkish security forces on June 26 conducted a raid at the offices of the Istanbul-based Güneş News Agency as part of a large-scale operation against the underground Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP), according to news sources. Police units carried out the search at the news agency, which oversees the technical affairs of Etkin News Agency and weekly newspaper Atılım, at the behest of an Istanbul Court, it was reported.
Ruben Hayapetyan and the Harsnakar Restaurant Incident
A leading Montenegrin anti-corruption agency is filing a series of criminal charges alleging abuse of power for personal gain by an array of top government and banking officials who orchestrated and allowed illegal and risky practices by the First Bank of Montenegro.
A 35-member unit of Armenian peacekeepers will leave for Kosovo on July 6. The Armenian peacekeepers will be located at the Camp Bondsteel American military base.
Badalyan also blames the army for letting the bodyguards of various oligarchs get so powerful.
Yasin Hayal, convicted of complicity in the 2007 murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, said the masterminds behind the killing were planning to kill Nobel prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk after Dink, this according to a reporter in the newspaper Taraf.
The Armenian president stated that Armenia was determined to implement extensive reforms targeting the country’s future democratization, rule of law, essential improvement of the socio-economic situation and raising the effectiveness of the governmental system.
The water pipeline will enable Norashen inhabitants to water all the fields and gardens located in the lower part of the village which could not have been effectively cultivated so far because of the lack of water.
Carrying a variety of banners and placards, the demonstrators also attempted to get the message across to European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, who was leaving the parliament after addressing the legislature.
President Serzh Sargsyan visited the US Embassy in Armenia today on the occasion of July 4, US Independence Day.
The group says that Georgian authorities are taking these measures against Javakhk Armenian activists and government opponents in the lead-up to parliamentary elections in that country.
For the first time, a lawsuit indirectly involving the Armenian Genocide is being appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Since its initial filing in 2003, various federal courts have taken conflicting positions on this lawsuit.
In a press release issued today in Ottawa, Hon. Jason Kenney, Minister Citizenship, Immigration, and Multiculturalism, announced the reappointment of Citizenship Judge Aris Babikian for a second three-year term.
The leadership of the Armenian Bar Association has been closely following the developments related to the beating-to-death in Yerevan of Dr. Vahe Avetyan, a military hospital top surgeon and Major of the Armenian Armed Forces.
In 2005, when Mkrtoumyan was the president of the Court of Cassation’s Chamber of Civil and Economic Affairs, he declared revenues of 3.729 million AMD – basically his wages.
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