The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has released its report: Transnational Organized Crime in West Africa: A Threat Assessment, detailing criminal developments in
“We also have heard dried milk thesis but it hasn't been verified. Nevertheless, we believe that some kind of food poisoning is the cause,” Haroutyunyan said.
“There shouldn't be a strike. What connection does the political situation have to do with education? Students can protest after classes,” Hakobyan noted.
During the march, the strikers handed out leaflets listing the names and phone numbers of attorneys offering legal services to students facing possible disciplinary action for participating in the walk-out.
Shnogh residents say that Saghatel stood out even as a child. They recount that in the second grade Saghatel broke the lock of the school cafeteria and ate all the cream for the pastries. Years later, one of the school’s classrooms caught fire as a result of a lab experiment Saghatel was conducting that went wrong. There are many such stories of the mishaps involving Saghatel.
A day after President Sarkisyan responded to his letter, artist and human rights activist Serj Tankian has, in turn, responded to Sarkisian, urging him to not use notions of security to distract people from injustices taking place inside Armenia. Below is Tankian’s second letter.
It appears that Armavir Mayor Ruben Khlghatyan’s request to resign has been overturned by President Serzh Sargsyan himself. Khlghatyan’s request had been accepted by the town’s municipal council just the other day.
I got a call this morning to head down to Yerevan State University to cover the third day of student protests in the Armenian capital.
In an unusual disclosure last week, Russia’s outgoing central bank chairman Sergei Ignatiev opened up about the billions of dollars Russia lost last year to the shadow economy. Russia saw $49 billion leave the country in 2012 by way of "questionable transactions," and Ignatiev acknowledged in an interview with Russian newspaper Vedomosti that more than half of that had been moved “by one well-organized group of individuals.”
While Armenia is grappling with the fallout from the February 18 presidential voting and trying to accommodate a newly energized opposition, its two hostile neighbors, Azerbaijan and Turkey, are entangled in a feud with each other over the Armenian election.
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