Karapetyan issues directives galore, but who’s listening?
Deputy Chairman of the State Water Management Committee Volodya Narimanyan says that there are some 80 reservoirs in Armenia, with a total volume of 1.2 billion cubic meters. Eleven of them are relatively larger. As of February 13, eleven reservoirs are filled only with 229.97 million cubic meters of water - 30% of their total capacity.
The US intends to impose sanctions on a major Latvian bank for laundering billions in illicit funds and allowing its clients to violate sanctions on North Korea, the US Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) said on Tuesday.
The mayor of Odessa and his deputy were arrested on Wednesday morning at the Boryspil international airport near Kyiv on suspicion of embezzling state property, the National Anticorruption Bureau of Ukraine, NABU, announced.
The Armenian government today decided to donate a 2013 Nissan X-Trail SUV, worth 15.777 million drams ($32,816) to the Ministry of Nature Protection so that it can carry out a pilot project designed to raise awareness of climate change throughout Armenia’s rural communities.