Ninety percent of the amber being mined in Ukraine today is being extracted illegally with the connivance of police and prosecutors, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko charged on July 2.
President Sargsyan has no doubts that the rate hike is justified. The World Bank has already studied the sector and has made suggestions to reform the sector to the Armenian government; all designed to guarantee the adequate and needed supply of electricity. Otherwise, more brownouts are on the way.
Police detained an unspecified number of protesters today who sat down in the middle of Baghramyan when cops moved in to remove a barricade of trash bins that had blocked the main artery to traffic for two weeks.
Armenia has exported 40,053 tons of fruit and vegetables so far this year, according to the country’s ministry of agriculture.
Armenia’s Police state that they will open Yerevan’s Baghramyan Avenue after electricity rate hike protesters succeeded in closing the main artery for two weeks.
Two Armenian soldiers were killed and two others injured in a road accident at around two o’clock this morning along the Berdzor-Stepanakert stretch of highway.
Half of the money, 150 million AMD, wound up be funneled to company owned by the brother of Provincial Governor Sargis Sahakyan.
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