Jermuk International Pepsi Cola had filed a complaint against Coca Cola Hellenic Bottling Company Armenia, claiming that the latter was abusing its dominant market position in Armenia.
A Yerevan court today started to examine the evidence related to Ashot Poghosyan, a former ArmenTel security chief implicated in a scam that rerouted $500 million in revenues at the telecommunication company.
In the brief, Maroukyan argues that a February 19 decision by Yerevan’s Shengavit District Court to issue an arrest warrant for Gaspari was legally unsubstantiated and that there was no urgent need to detain Gaspari.
Arman Tatoyan, Armenia’s recently appointed Human Rights Defender (HRD), reports that he will be looking into allegations that detained civic activist Vardges Gaspari, now being held at the Nubarashen Prison, has been subjected to violence at the hands of prison officials.
The ministry reports that Azerbaijani forces fired some 1,700 rounds of small arms yesterday and last night, adding that its forces responded in kind when necessary.
As per yesterday’s signing of a ‘political cooperation’ agreement between the ruling Republican Party and the ARF, Armenia’s Ministry of Territorial Administration and Emergency Affairs has been reorganized into two separate ministries – the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Development, and the Ministry of Emergency Affairs.
Leaving the courtroom after the six-hour hearing, Safaryan’s lawyer Tigran Hayrapetyan told reporters that he had filed a petition to have the judge recused from the case.
As per yesterday’s signing of a ‘political cooperation’ agreement between the ruling Republican Party and the ARF, Armen Ashotyan has been relieved of his duties as minister of education and science and has been replaced by ARF Bureau member Levon Mkrtchyan.
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