Out of sight, out of mind…It’s sort of a mantra in Armenia, especially among government agencies. Take the case of the Ministry of Environemnt and its attitude to an endangered African bonobo monkey that recently showed up as an attraction in a local restaurant.
Maritime drug trafficking along the Pacific coast from Mexico to the United States has risen steeply in recent years as overland smuggling has become more difficult, a pattern little reported amid fanfare over the reemergence of the Caribbean drug route.
Former Yugoslavian countries have raised more than US $50 million, some of which has come from “shadowy, unaccountable funds,” for accused war criminals reports Balkan Insight.
In September of 2012, Harout Halladjian, along with his mother Diroun, brother Sarkis and sister Lusineh, came to Armenia from Syria.
In addition to others, Hetq, and Hetq reporter Marine Martirosyan, were the recipients of this year’s “Book Friend” award.
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