Three top government officials in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including the president of the Federation of BiH, were arrested on Friday in a crackdown on organized crime, the Prosecutor’s office confirmed.
Today, on April 29, the international seminar "The role of Youth NGO's in Information Society" that had brought together 35 youth leaders from different Council of Europe member countries, came to the end.
The Barev Yerevan alliance issued a statement claiming that its campaign rally yesterday in Yerevan’s Kanaker-Zeytoun district was hindered when electrical wires were cut and later, when power was completely cut to the building in which voters had assembled.
Today students, university professors, authorities and journalists learned more about the important role of the English language at the UN during the observation of the English Language Day in Armenia.
Aghvan Vardanyan at Studio Hetq
At the ongoing demonstration by Nairit Plant workers outside the Government Building, one of the demonstrators asked a government official if it would be possible for the state to pay the workers’ utility bills.
Earlier today, a Yerevan court threw out the suit filed by Zhoghovurd newspaper reporter Sona Avetisyan against businessman Khachik Khachatryan for calling her a prostitute during a December 28, 2012 telephone conversation.
It would appear that intimidation and the exercise of violence are not merely endemic to elections in Armenia, but have also surfaced in "Little Armenia", thousands of miles away in sunny southern California.
Some eighty irate Nairit Rubber Plant workers are staging a demonstration outside the Government Building in Yerevan and are demanding that they be paid almost one year in back wages.
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