The European Parliament has adopted a resolution calling for the release of political prisoners in Azerbaijan, among other anti-corruption and pro-democracy measures.
The Armenian government today turned down an amendment proposed by MP Nikol Pashinyan that would reduce traffic violation fines issued to financially strapped drivers (the official term is ‘socially vulnerable’) by 50%.
Armenia’s Food Safety Inspectorate reports that the cafeteria food in the Baghramyan village school in Ararat Province is being inspected after more than twenty pupils became sick.
Bulgaria’s National Assembly has shot down a piece of legislation that would help fight corruption at the country’s highest level upon a first reading of the bill.
At the latest hearing in the long-awaited trial of suspects in the 1999 murder of Slavko Curuvija, one of Serbia's most prominent opposition journalists, his common-law wife and daughter took the witness stand.
The second annual Artsakh Wine Festival, where the best of the country’s wines will be displayed and available for tasting, takes place on September 17 in the Hadrout district village of Togh.
Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan has recently organized a number of advisory meetings designed to tighten the monitoring of elevators in Armenia’s capital. Such meetings become more frequent whenever news gets out about a mechanically unsafe elevator or, tragically, whenever someone is injured or even killed.
Albania's oppositional Democratic Party has called for the resignation of Sajmir Tahiri, Minister of the Interior, accusing him of protecting criminal groups that smuggle Albanian marijuana to Italy by plane.
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