Marines have killed the founder of the La Familia Michoacana and leader of the Knights Templar, a mythical figure in the Mexico underworld, who disappeared in 2010 and was believed dead.
Of the four candidates proposed in yesterday's local government elections, residents of the village of Lernavan in Armenia's Lori Province once again voted for the incumbent, village mayor Vachagan Vardanyan, saying that despite problems in the village, he can only do so much and the Armenian government should step in and help.
72 year-old Irma Haroutyunyan, the only women candidate, beat her rival by 61 votes and thus was assured a seat on the council in the community she relocated to as a refugee from Baku in the late 1980s.
On March 7, the Yerkir am news site in Armenia wrote that it had received information regarding the possible sale of Electric Networks of Armenia (ENA), the utility company that serves 935,000 customers in Armenia.
Republican Party candidate Yurik Tsougounyan yesterday lost his bid to be re-elected to a seventh term as mayor of Hovk, a village in Tavoush province.
By a vote of 66 to 46, Armenia’s National Assembly rejected a bill to create an ad-hoc committee to investigate the events of March 1, 2008 in which ten people died during political protests in Yerevan.
It appears that SandbadTir INTL Transport, the Iranian company that has filed a bankruptcy lawsuit against Nairit Plant CJSC in Armenia, doesn’t have an official address.
Only slightly more than half of the residents of the village of Nrnadzor in Syunik Province voted in Sunday's municipal elections, and though, according to preliminary results, the significant majority voted for the sole mayoral candidate, Mkrtich Mkrtchyan, villagers believe becoming mayor is not as important as owning land and salvaging crops after the winter frost. Nrnadzor, after all, is a small village, and it is confronted with more...
In yesterday’s election for mayor of the Ararat village of Nizam, Republican Party incumbent Artavazt Dounoyan lost his re-election bid to independent candidate Haroutyun Karapetyan by a vote of 254 to 214.
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