Tens of thousands of documents belonging to ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych have been fished out of the lake on his sprawling estate in Mezhygirya Park outside of Kiev.
Avtandil Martiashvili, the driver, had entered Armenia from Iran and was headed for Georgia. He was arrested on the spot and charged with drug smuggling. A Turkish citizen, Osman Oğurlu, was arrested several days later in Yerevan as an accomplice.
While the Armenian parliament was debating a bill to create an ad-hoc committee to review the problems plaguing the Nairit Rubber Plant, outside the gates, angry factory workers were demanding they be paid several months worth of back wages.
Jahangiryan noted that such an important issue should be debated in a packed legislature which was the case earlier today when MPs discussed a government proposal to create a natural gas ad-hoc committee.
While the United States is increasingly protecting its land borders from drug traffickers with robot technology, coast guard cutbacks are leaving sea lanes unprotected, illustrating the disjointed political nature of the US drug war.
Minasyan noted that an investigative report had surfaced in the Armenian press claiming that a move was underway to bring the plant to its knees and have it declared bankrupt.
In response to an earlier charge made today by ANC MP Levon Zurabyan that the government’s call for the creation of an ad-hoc committee to review the natural gas issue was an attempt to ‘bury’ the truth, parliament speaker Hovik Abrahamyan declared, “We are neither funeral directors or master of concealment.”
Prosperous Party MP Naira Zohrabyan today labeled the government’s call for the creation of a natural gas ad-hoc committee as a ploy to gain time and to dampen public passions on the issues of pricing and supply.
Though exports of Armenian jewelry have gone up in recent years, they still don't compare to what the free economic zones of Dubai and Istanbul have accomplished.
ANC parliamentary faction leader Levon Zurabyan described the ruling coalition’s call for an ad-hoc committee to investigate Armenia’s natural gas issue as an attempt to conceal the truth.
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