Romanian prosecutors this week seized assets worth € 2 billion (US$ 2.2 billion) from major Russian petroleum company Lukoil.
In the first five months of 2015 Armenia produced 7.1 million liters of beer, 4.380 million liters of brandy 3.9 million liters of vodka, 2.241 million liters of wine, and 143,000 liters of champagne.
Yerevan’s Investigative Committee has launched a criminal investigation into yesterday’s daylight mugging in downtown Yerevan of a 32 year-old man who was carrying US$38,000 on his person.
IJ President Edik Baghdasaryan had sent an email request to Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan, requesting that the department provide information as to how many complaints had the Police received regarding two citizens – Naira Asatryan and Varuzhan Margaryan – within the past five years.
With the recent Electric Yerevan grassroots movement and Greece’s referendum vote, it appears that citizens in Armenia and Greece are beginning to question the economic systems that are in place in their respective countries.
6,000 grapevine seedlings imported from France were turned back at the Armenian border because they were infected with the Phylloxera - one of the most destructive grape pests worldwide.
Yesterday, the Georgian parliament’s standing committee on cultural and education affairs began debating a language bill that would have Georgian enshrined as the state language by law.
On July 28 the Tbilisi Municipal Court is scheduled to rule on a long-going dispute between residents of the Armenian populated village of Tabatzghour (in the Samtskhe-Javakhk region of Georgia) and Vardan Ayvazyan (an MP in Armenia’s National Assembly who was born in the village).
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