A worker was killed on March 22 at the Teghout Enrichment Plant when the crane basket he was in plummeted 34 meters to the ground.
Citigroup became the latest in a series of major banks to be reprimanded for failing to adhere to US banking legislation. The US Federal Reserve censured the firm for weak money laundering controls and failure to comply with US regulations. The Reserve cited subpar compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act, a key US law governing reporting of suspicious transfers.
Last summer, when UK police raided an industrial building in the picturesque market town of Newton-le-Willows, about 20 miles east of Liverpool, they found something they had never seen before.
A Yerevan court order Gagik Tsarukyan’s “Yerevan Ararat Brandy-Wine-Vodka Factory” (YABWV) to pay Stefan Laxhuber, the CEO of the German investment firm “Ostinvestor”, 14.8 million AMD ($36,662) in compensation in a case that dates back to 2009.
Recently, Hetq wrote to the Prosecutor General’s Office as to whether or not our series of investigative articles regarding financial shenanigans at Nairit had lead to any criminal charges or even a criminal investigation.
In response to the statement issued yesterday by Raffi Hovannisian, Presidential Press Spokesman Armen Arzoumanyan today issued the following communiqué:
The powers participating in the Yerevan municipal elections are revealing their different formulations for their perceived type of Yerevan mayor with their candidates. For example, the Prosperous Armenia Party, the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun and the Heritage Party or "Barev Yerevan" alliance suggest political figures, while the Rule of Law Party's choices are administrative.
On the night of March 24, temperatures in the Ararat Valley dropped by three degree in some areas and experts are now wondering how this will affect blossoming apricot trees.
The RA Central Electoral Commission (CEC) has given the Mission party another 48 hours to get its paperwork in order to get on the ballot for the May 5 Yerevan municipal elections.
Yerevan's largest book market is no more.
A man who had been sought by RA Police since 1990 on murder and illegal arms possession charges was finally found in the United States and deported back to Armenia yesterday.
Over 40 Armenian Genocide specialists from nine countries met in Yerevan on March 22-23 to strategize on how to devise a legal framework to mitigate the consequences of the Genocide, counter Turkish denialism, and organize genocide studies programs and museum exhibits. The conference was organized by the State Commission coordinating activities leading to the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
On Tuesday, a Turkish court ruled that the 2011 death of Sevag Şahin Balıkçı, an Armenian private serving in the Turkish army, was an accident.
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