The daughter of Samvel Balasanyan, the current mayor of Gyumri (Armenia’s second largest city), and her husband, have purchased a real estate and bread/confectionary company in Prague.
Armenia’s Minister of Emergency Situations Daniel Tonoyan issued a statement claiming that the fire at Yerevan’s Nairit chemical plant is under control and that six water tankers belonging to Sanitek (the company responsible for garbage collection in the Armenian capital) have been deployed to the site.
Today, while extinguishing the remaining fires in the Armenia’s Khosrov Forest State Reserve, units of the Ministry of Nature Protection and forest wardens came upon a jeep containing 533 trout and an electroshock apparatus.
Former Artsakh Minister of Defense Samvel Babayan, now on trial in a Yerevan court for money laundering and attempting to smuggle a missile launcher into Armenia, today proclaimed his innocence, saying that authorities were out to get him.
Clouds of acrid black smoke continue to plume from Yerevan’s Nairit chemical plant. The fire was reported at around 2 p.m. today.
Two policemen, prosecution eyewitnesses in the trial of Harutyun Torosyan, Hrayr Isakhanyan, Andranik Kyeosyan and Edward Zeytunyan, charged with public disorder during clashes with police on July 19,2016, in the Sari Tagh neighborhood of Yerevan, testified today in court that they can’t identify any of the defendants.
In May 2009, an explosion at the plant killed four employees.
Karen Mirzoyan and Daur Kove discussed approaches designed to strengthen friendly relations between their two governments.
Armenia’s Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials must have been on vacation for the three years the ambassador failed to file any disclosure at all.
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