Prominent Montenegro businessman Blažo Dedić was charged before the Special Court in Belgrade and taken into custody last weekend after more than two years under investigation for allegedly laundering drug money for suspected fugitive kingpin Darko Šarić.
Transnational crime will be one of the five most significant threats to American and global security over the next decade, according to Obama administration intelligence forecasts and the U.S. military. It joins a chilling list which also includes biological weapons, nuclear weapons, cyber warfare and climate change.
The slander trial filed by former Armenian Prime Minister Armen Darbinyan against the Political Research Center got underway today at Yerevan’s Kentron and Nork-Marash Court.
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan travelled to Meghri today to participate in a ceremony marking the start of construction of a joint Armenian-Iranian hydro-electric plant on the Araks River.
Armenia's government today decided to create a new SNOC (State Non-Commercial Organization) whose task it will be to organize the importation of a new generation of cash registers corresponding to RA legislation.
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Minutes ago, Armenia’s Court of Appeals rejected the suit filed by the Word of Life religious organization which sought to overturn the July 31, 2012 verdict of a lower court. The lower court had thrown out the slander suit filed by Word of Life against the newspaper Iravounk.
Today the RA National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Protection of Human Rights and Public Affairs approved a government proposal to increase the 2013 budget expenditure allocated to the Office of the Human Rights Defender by 11.8 million AMD.
Turkey has intercepted another Syria-bound cargo plane from Armenia suspected of carrying arms, according to a report in Today’s Zaman and CNN Turk and picked up by Reuters.