Bosnian, Croatian and Slovenian authorities working together have dismantled an organized crime group that smuggled illegal migrants through the Balkans into Western Europe. The operation dubbed “Loca” was conducted at the request of the State Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovin and nabbed 12 suspects.
Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze will arrive in Yerevan tomorrow for a working visit at the invitation of the Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian.
Armenia’s National Security Service states that its agents arrested Kotayk Deputy Regional Governor Levon Mikayelyan today when he was pocketing a 40,000 AMD ($95) bribe from a local school principal.
A civic group battling to keep the resort town of Jermouk from turning into a mining zone has called on the Minister of Nature Protection to respond to the public petition it made in June.
The United States Departments of State, Defense, and Energy and the European Commission participated in a series of field training exercises with Armenia and Georgia from July 9-12. The exercises used realistic scenarios to demonstrate and strengthen notification and response procedures in the event of illicit movement of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)-related materials.
During court today, Davit Toumasyan, attorney for the plaintiff Margarita Khachatryan, said that his client was withdrawing her compensation demand of 2 million AMD in her slander suit against the Hraparak newspaper.
On February 12 of this year, the day of a mayoral election in the town of Hrazdan, the civic group “We Will Not be Silenced” circulated a statement and video clip.
Aida said that the village Mayor Haykaz Kochinyan presented the family with New Year’s gifts in January – one box of coffee and candy and some cigarettes. She says this was the first year that the mayor gave the family any type of help.
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