Elvis Kelmendi, son of alleged drug kingpin Naser Kelmendi, was sentenced to four years in prison for the attempted murder of Elvis Hodzic in 2010, Klix.ba reported. The prosecution has appealed the sentence, claiming that the court showed too much leniency due to Elvis Kelmendi’s confession, and that the crime deserved a harsher sentence.
A much anticipated trial in Italy is set to begin in Palermo on May 27 where prosecutors will charge that high level Italian government officials made a pact with Sicilian Mafia bosses.
As in the first session, the defendant Rhinoville never showed up at the proceeding. The company argues that the court has no jurisdiction to review the matter involving loans to Armenia’s Nairit Rubber Plant.
As reports of irregularitiesduring the Yerevan Municipal election continue to make headlines in the media, members of a joint local-Diaspora monitoring team, which exceeded 100 people, are neverthelessoptimistic about the level of engagement and partnership between local organizations and Diaspora resources.
Ambassador Obolensky noted that Switzerland will be investing $8 million to promote farming operations in Syunik Province. This compares to last year’s investment of $4 million.
It turns out that Sedrak Kocharyan, eldest son of former RA President Robert Kocharyan, is the largest landowner in Talvorik.
According to the factual data obtained during the pre-trial proceeding V. Grigoryan procuring metallic mercury and keeping it for the purpose of sale, on February 9, 2013 reached a prior agreement with his cousin M. Grigoryan then with the latter's friend G. Hakobyan and decided to transmit it to Yerevan and sell.
The April indictment in New York of 34 conspirators involved in gambling and bookmaking rings reads like the screenplay for the 1998 poker flick Rounders, with high-stakes games, Russian mafia dons and thugs breaking bones to collect from losers in too deep.
While speaking to reporters today about the sit-down protest that several Artsakh war vets launched two days ago in Yerevan’s Freedom Square, legal expert and depot battalion Colonel Varoujan Avetisyan said that while he wouldn’t participate in the protest, he did support it.
After months of dilly-dallying and passing the buck, the RA Ministry of Culture has called on the Yerevan Municipality to take all necessary steps to halt on-going construction at the city Pak Shouka (Closed Market).
Mkrtich Minasyan, head of Armenia’s Union of Architects, told reporters today that he held out no hope that Yerevan’s landmark “Pak Shouka” could be saved.
The Qanaqer-Zeytoun police launched a criminal case in which a total of four citizens in the recent Yerevan municipal election attempted to vote in the stead of another person.
Nayiri.com today announced the release of digitized versions of two seminal Classical Armenian dictionaries: Nor Parkirk Haigazian Lezvi (New Dictionary of the Armenian Language, or Haigazian Pararan in short) and the Artsern Pararan Haigaznian Lezvi (Handy Dictionary of the Armenian Language).
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