A US federal court sentenced Vadim Mikerin to 48 months in prison this week for facilitating a US$ 2.1 million bribery scheme as the middleman between American companies and Russian nuclear officials exporting uranium to the US, reported Reuters.
Montenegrin authorities today arrested the former president of Serbia and Montenegro, who they suspect was involved in large-scale corruption cases in his hometown of Budva.
An Armenian court yesterday partially ruled in favor of Tigran Sargsyan, a former prime minister of Armenia now serving as the country’s ambassador to the U.S., in a slander suit he filed against businessman Paylak Hayrapetyan and the Shamshyan.com news site.
Armenia’s Investigative Committee has written to Hetq saying that it has rejected launching a criminal case based on a Hetq article in which Samvel Boyakhchyan, a HAK (Armenian National Congress) member serving on a local election committee in Kasakh, claimed that he was offered a bribe before the December 6 constitutional referendum.
The Artsakh Ministry of Defense reports that last night its forces repelled a three-pronged incursion attempt by Azerbaijan along the eastern section of the Line of Contact.
Armenian First Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications Artour Arakelyan today said that Tranche 1 (Artashat to Ashtarak) of the North-South Highway would be opened to two-way vehicular traffic by the end of December.
The Artsakh Ministry of Defense reports that Azerbaijan violated the Line of Contact ceasefire more than 180 times yesterday and last night, firing more than 1,800 rounds of small arms, as well as grenades and mortars.
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Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan leaves for Bern, Switzerland, on December 18 to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev the following day.
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