The other five had higher than acceptable levels of salmonella and MAFAM (Mesophilic aerobic and facultative anaerobic microorganisms), in addition to antibiotics, whose sale is restricted in Armenia and that can only be used by a physician’s prescription.
Around 20,000 Israelis gathered in an upscale Tel Aviv neighborhood Saturday night to protest government corruption and an impending bill in the Israeli Knesset, reported Reuters and Israeli media.
Michael Christides, Secretary General of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation’s (BSEC) Permanent International Secretariat, at a meeting today in Yerevan with Armenian Minister of Transport, Communications and IT Vahan Martirosyan, said that he was convinced that the BSEC would continue to work effectively once Armenia assumes chairmanship of the organization in 2018.
The Court of Appeals in Armenia is now hearing a lawsuit filed by the Investigative Journalists NGO (the publisher of Hetq) to overturn a lower court’s decision absolving a senior investigator at the Special Investigative Service (SIS) from any wrongdoing when he denied handing over copies of a decision of the SIS to drop its criminal investigation into the offshore business interests of Mihran Poghosyan, a former head of the Armenia’s...
The parties discussed the preparation works for the World Congress on Information Technologies (WCIT), to be held in Armenia in 2019, and expressed their willingness to join efforts for a successful event.
On December 4, Minister of Transport, Communication and Information Technologies Vahan Martirosyan received the Czech Ambassador to Armenia, H.E. Mr. Petr Mikyska and Executive Director of Arriva Company Daniel Adamka.
Armenia’s State Revenue Committee says AMD 18.2 billion less in taxes was collected in the first ten months of this year when compared to the same period in 2016 in thirty sectors; notably communications, construction, publishing and the importation of medicine.