Brazil is developing a program to chemically identify the “DNA” of seized cocaine and determine the drugs’ origins, according to local media reports. A drug database has already been set up to aid in the identification of drug sources, Brazil’s Director of Federal Police Leandro Daiello told reporters.
Police in France, the United Kingdom, and Belgium, in coordination with Europol and Eurojust, dismantled an organized criminal network smuggling Middle Eastern nationals on Wednesday, according to a Europol press release. Europol and Eurojust provided logistical and organizational support, as well as real-time intelligence analysis.
Moldova's National Anti-Corruption Centre has launched an investigation into the role Moldovan banks played in the $230 million tax rebate fraud uncovered by Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, Moldovan authorities acknowledged on Wednesday. In doing so, Moldova became the fifth country to try to trace the funds obtained in that tax fraud, joining Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, and Switzerland.
In the beginning of this year, the Armenian journalistic organizations marked a notable decline of court cases against the media in 2012. This was also evidenced by the Human Rights Watch international organization, which noted in its latest report that politically motivated defamation lawsuits no longer appear to be a serious problem in Armenia.
In a February 7 interview with the newspaper Chorrord Inknishkhanutyun, Armenian National Congress (HAK) leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan declared that the time had come to transform the alliance into a unified political party.
Landmark preservation activist were out in force today raising the alarm about another Yerevan architectural gem being threatened by shoddy construction work nearby. Visitors to Yerevan have surely walked past the two-storey building housing the Armenian Society for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (ASRFC) on Abovyan Street.
Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan today severely reprimanded the director of the Yerevan Public Zoo regarding the noticeable drop of the number of animals of late.
Accompanying them will be Vardan Minasyan, the technical director of the Armenian Football Federation and head coach of the country’s national team.
Thus, the cost of a Yerevan-Tbilisi ticket for reserved car seat makes 7660 drams, for a compartment car 11,610 drams and 16 030 drams for a sleeping car.
RA Deputy Health Minister Hayk Gharbinyan today visited presidential candidate Andreas Ghoukasyan and called on him to end his twenty day hunger strike.
Pope Benedict XVI will resign on February 28, his spokesman Father Federico Lombardi told CNN Monday. The 85-year-old pope is resigning "because of advanced age," Benedict told the cardinals of the Catholic Church on Monday.
According to the most recent available statistics, 186,384 individuals, or 6.1% of Armenia’s permanent population of 3,041,000, are classified as having various forms of disabilities. (The Armenian term "hashmandamoutyoun" is generally translated as "handicap" in state documents)
Armenia's Prosecutor General send bribe allegations involving Republican Party members to the Special Investigative Service for follow-up.
In the following video, President of the Yerevan-based Architecture Research NGO Samvel Karapetyan argues that emigration is an inseparable part of Armenian history.
In an unexpected about-face, presidential candidate Paryur Hayrikian today filed a petition to withdraw a petition he filed yesterday at the Constitutional Court seeking a postponement of the February 18 election.
It is about the impact of the Internet on the political and electoral processes in Armenia in the recent years, the internal and external challenges threatening the security of websites, cyber wars, transformations of Armenian media, etc. Suren Deheryan, president of the Journalists for the Future NGO, as well as the book editor, is sure that governmental initiatives and continuous investments are needed to develop the infrastructure of the...
Raffi K. Hovannisian today took his presidential campaign to the residential areas of Saragat, Anushavan, Getap, Dzorakap, Maralik, Horom, Vardakar, Panik, Azatan, Ashotsk, and Akhuryan, and the cities of Artik and Gyumri in the Shirak region.
The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is alarmed at the number of press freedom violations in South East Europe in recent months. Additionally, SEEMO is worried that some media are not respecting basic professional standards, and are thus endangering colleagues from other media.
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