A financial empire involving nearly 100 companies, 174 pieces of real estate, 32 vehicles, and two large yachts was seized Jan. 31 by the Guardia di Finanza, the Italian financial police. Operation “Movida,” meaning “Movement,” led to the arrest of Giovanni De Pierro, an Italian entrepreneur living in Barcelona, Spain.
Armenian authorities now have forty days to present extradition papers to Georgia in order to return Sukiasyan who was arrested at Tbilisi International Airport on Friday after embarking from a flight from Istanbul.
In a Dec. 17, 2013 Chamber judgment in the case of Perinçek v. Switzerland (application no. 27510/08), which is not final, the European Court of Human Rights held, by a majority, that there had been: a violation of Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights The case concerned the criminal conviction of Mr Perinçek for publicly challenging the existence of the Armenian genocide.
A 15% increase in passenger flow was observed at the “Zvartnots” International Airport of Yerevan in the first month of 2014, as compared to January 2013.
On January 29, the day marking the anniversary when France recognized the Armenian Genocide in 2001), the Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations of France (CCAF) organized a dinner, under the patronage of Charles Aznavour, attended by many French personalities in the arts, politics and the press, as well as religious figures.
Despite the continuing resonance of the Cyprus financial imbroglio in Armenia, AmeriaBank, a major ‘player’, seems intent to push the entire process to its logical conclusion.
A vote to increase the number of members of the parliamentary Ad-Hoc Counting Committee today passed with only the ruling coalition voting and despite objections from the parliamentary opposition.
Upon spotting a number of bodyguards outside the chamber, members of the press figured that Prosperous Armenia party leader Gagik Tsarukyan showed up too.
Searching for prototypes of the computer and modern means of communication took journalist Tigran Paskevichyan back to the 1950s, when Soviet dissidents created samizdat.
Having traveled to Lebanon in December, photographer Ara Oshagan is also working on a book about the Armenian community of Beirut.
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