Professor Anahid Gharakhanian, a longtime member of the Armenian Bar Association, has been appointed as Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at Southwestern Law School on whose faculty she has served since 2002. In her new capacity, she will be in charge of the overall academic program, faculty appointments, faculty development, and Southwestern's self-study process, and will continue to serve as Director of the Externship Program.
Russian prosecutors have charged lawyer, anti-corruption activist and anti-government protest leader Aleksei Navalny with embezzlement. If convicted, he could face between five and 10 years in prison.
A Yerevan court today rejected the slander suit filed by the Word of Life religious organization against the newspaper Iravunk. The presiding judge has ordered that the religious group and its president each pay the newspaper 150,000 AMD for incurred legal fees.
At a Yerevan court today, the news site slaq.am agreed that it had slandered Anoushavan Nikoghosyan, who ran for parliament in Election District 32 in the May.
Mikayel Koloyan, a swimmer representing Armenia, failed to make the grade in the 100 meter men’s freestyle competition with a disappointing 53.82 second showing in his heat.
Khachatryan, Council Coordinator for the Zinvor civic organization, had sued the newspaper for an April 2011 article alleging that she got into a shoving match with officers at an Artsakh military base she had visited.
On 7 July 2012, the Police posted a statement entitled Necessary Clarification on their official website (www.police.am). Having no intention to enter into a debate, still, realizing the importance of the universal principles of law recognized by civilized nations and enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Constitution and the Criminal Procedure Code, and taking account of the imperative of the prevailing public interest,...
So far this year, 29 journalists have been killed in the line of duty according to Reporters Without Borders. The country-wide breakdown is Somalia (6); Mexico (5); Syria (4); Brazil (3); Bangladesh, India (2); Indonesia, Iraq, Lebanon, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines and Thailand (1).
Online cocaine trade in Russia is on the rise, and traffickers are increasingly relying on mail services to deliver cocaine to buyers, RIA news reports.
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