For two years, the case bounced around the courts before being dropped.
An investigation by RISE Project, an OCCRP partner, has revealed how an Austrian-based company bought huge volumes of timber from controversial local logging firms over the past two years.
Artsakh Prime Minister Arayik Haroutyunyan today convened a consultative meeting to discuss the ongoing barley harvest and devise measures tasked with resolving associated problems.
The heroin was discovered when a truck entering Armenia from Iran was inspected at the Meghri customs house on January 17, 2014. The truck was destined for Georgia.
Stepan Grigoryan, serving a life sentence in Armenia’s Nubarashen Detention Facility and now in his sixth day of a hunger strike, has petitioned the courts to overturn a decision by the prison authorities to postpone, by one year, a review of his conditional release.
Georgia reports that due to the risk of sinkholes, the Stepantsminda-Lars Highway will be open to traffic from 7am to 7 pm only.