Even though the Ararat town municipality won the “Clean Community 2015” award, garbage removal remains a sore spot for the province and Armenia as a whole. The following photos, showcasing 14 villages and two towns in the province, convey the scope of the problem. While trash bins line village streets and local municipalities allocate funds to collect trash, it doesn’t seem to be enough. Illegal trash dumps appear here and there in villages...
Europol spearheaded a two-week joint operation with law enforcement agencies across France, Norway and Romania in a major bust of remote-access Trojan (RATs) cyber criminals, according to a Europol press release.
Egypt is second only to China as the world’s worst jailer of journalists in 2015. Worldwide, the number of journalists behind bars for their work declined moderately during the year, but a handful of countries continue to use systematic imprisonment to silence criticism. A CPJ special report by Elana Beiser
On the 16th of December, 2015 another Citizen Office equipped with the Municipal Management and Information System (MMIS) opens in Tumanyan, Lori Marz, Armenia. The Citizen Office shall improve access of citizens to public services through centralizing municipal service delivery in one office space, according to the „one-stop-shop “principle.
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