Prosecutors in Sofia have charged eight alleged members of an organized crime group with arson, attempted murder, firearms possession and drug offences. They face trial in Bulgaria’s anti-mafia court.
Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny was brought in for questioning by the Russian Investigative Committee (TFR) in Moscow on Friday, Jan 16, during a raid on the offices of his non-profit.
On January 19, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Karen Mirzoyan received Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk.
Seryozha Avetisyan, the six month old baby boy who survived a deadly attack in Gyumri last Monday, died this afternoon in a Yerevan hospital where he was being treated for trauma.
Bishop Vazgen Mirzakhanyan celebrated a Hogehangist (Repose of Souls Service) at the St. Etchmiadzin Armenian Church in Tbilisi yesterday in memory of the six Avetisyan family members killed last Monday in their Gyumri home.
Alexandr Bastrikin, President of Russia’s Investigative Committee, will arrive in Armenia today at the invitation of his Armenian counterpart Aghvan Hovsepyan, ostensibly to discuss the issue of which country has legal jurisdiction regarding the prosecution of those responsible for an attack last Monday in Gyumri during which six members of the Avetisyan family were killed.
Artsakh’s defense ministry reports that Azerbaijan violated the ceasefire a total of 400 times during the past two days, firing more than 4,557 rounds.
Functioning of the baby’s kidneys has decreased and local physicians, in concert with specialists from Russia, have decided to perform peritoneal dialysis.