Czech police have arrested two Czech nationals, a Pole and a Ukrainian for operating a cigarette smuggling ring. They are accused of smuggling large amounts of cigarettes from Russia into the Czech Republic, via a tunnel between Ukraine and Slovakia. Police seized 84,000 cigarettes during the bust.
Nineteen people from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) have been detained on suspicion they smuggled unprocessed meat from BiH and sold it in several counties on the Croatian coast, the Croatian Interior Ministry announced Thursday.
Mexican authorities have charged three generals and a lieutenant-colonel with aiding one of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartels, the Beltran-Leyva cartel (BLO).
On August 2 Yerevan Children’s Railway reconstructed at the initiative of CJSC “South Caucasus Railway” officially opened. As the CEO of CJSC “SCR” Victor Rebets mentioned the Company had taken the responsibility to reconstruct the infrastructure of the CR in the children’s interest despite the fact that the CR no longer belonged to the railway of Armenia.
ANTELIAS, Lebanon – On Wednesday, His Holiness Aram I, spiritual head of the Catholicosate of Cilicia and a President of the Middle East Council of Churches, appealed to all ecumenical and humanitarian organizations to speed up aid to the population in Syria.
The Finance Minister said that inflation over the seven month period stood at 2.2% and that this was much less than the same period in previous years.
A four day festival of ethnic foods and culture entitled “Countries Under One Roof” will take place on September 26-29 in Yerevan’s Ring Park.
Yesterday the Economic minister of Armenia, Mr. Tigran Davtyan, visited Armenia Technology Center of Excellence. The Technology Center of Excellence includes several companies such as Gallery-Systems, Boomerang Software, Energize Global Services, and these companies provide IT services to global and well-known clients as well as develop innovative technologies and software applications.
RA President Serzh Sargsyan has left for a short vacation and will spend part of it overseas. During his vacation, President Sargsyan will visit the Russian Federation, where he is scheduled to meet President Vladimir Putin on August 8.
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