Hairstylist-turned-businessman Carson Yeung, 54, was convicted on Monday after a 50-day trial and faces up to seven years in prison for laundering nearly US$100 million from casinos and gang members.
On March 1, 30 masked gunmen in military fatigues broke into the Crimean Center for Investigative Journalism in Simferopol, the Crimean region’s capital, reports the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN).
Mamikon Khojoyan, a citizen of Armenia and resident of Ijevan who had been interned in Baku, returned to Armenia today under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Suzy Kocharyan (pictured, right) would've turned 19. "Without my father, mother, what am I needed for? I'm alone, I'm sad…" she wrote on her Facebook page before committing suicide on the first day of spring. Suzy's father, Soghomon (pictured, left), has been in prison for 19 years, serving a life sentence. Her mother, Stella, died 4 years ago from severe suffering and illness.
It appears that the flap over the planned construction of a café on the grounds of the Garni historical site in Armenia has reverberated in the halls of government.
She’s running as a member of Turkey’s Peoples’ Democracy Party in the March 30 local elections.
Now Matevosyan is a pensioner, but he continues to spend most of his day in his workshop.