On Wednesday, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit[1] filed against it by Maxim Stepanov, a Russian national who is the owner of Midland Consult, a Cyprus based company registration firm that was mentioned in the Proxy Platform [2]series.
Thousands turned out under a cloudy Yerevan sky to hear what Raffi Hovannisian had to say about the future of the movement to remove Serzh Sargsyan from the Presidential Palace.
Editor’s Note: The following is an investigation conducted by the Washington-based Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, a Kyiv Post partner. The authors are Kyiv-based Ukrainian journalists working for the investigative bureau Slidstvo.info.
While the real owners of the Euroterminal can’t be proven, the people who manage the terminal have a number of controversial connections that raise serious questions about the operation.
On the Road with RaffiPresidential ElectionsArmenia 2013By Sara Anjargolian
Armenia’s Human Rights Defender has urged RA Deputy Prime Minister Armen Gevorgyan to take immediate action to ensure proper access to polling stations for citizens with physical impairments.
Hamid Shahlayei Jalalin has told the court that he had no idea that a suitcase give to him by a third party, ostensibly full of gifts for relatives in Armenia, actually included the drugs in a secret compartment.
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have called on the newly appointed US Secretary of State, John Kerry, to raise press freedom concerns with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during Mr Kerry’s visit to Turkey on Friday.
Members of the Armenian Parliament today observed one minute of silence to commemorate those Armenians killed in the 1988 Sumgait and 1990 Baku pogroms.
The bill, introduced by the government, would allow alternative military service to citizens of Armenia whose religious beliefs or convictions were opposed to bearing arms or using them.
From January 29 to February 27 eight leading Armenian start-up teams, finalists of the Armenia StartUp, participated in a rigorous program on entrepreneurship development led by the experts of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Executive Development (CEED) through the USAID Enterprise Development and Market Competitiveness (EDMC) Project. The teams presented their business plans on February 27 at the certificate ceremony, attended...
From February 1, 2013 JSC "Georgian Railway" increases tariff rates for shipping for 20-foot containers by 3.5% and canceled the discount factor 0.82 for 40-foot containers.
Raffi K. Hovannisian, President-elect of the Republic of Armenia, on February 26 continued his presidential victory tour with a visit Armavir. He was accompanied by numerous supporters, former members of the Heritage parliamentary group, and journalists.
Peru needs new laws to tackle organized crime,Peruvian Cabinet Chief Juan Jimenez said in a report by state news agency Andina.