Former minister of transportation and communication of Armenia Gurgen Sargsyan, coordinator of the works of Stones LLC, has been remanded into custody under the ongoing criminal case launched into the North-South Road Corridor project.
On October 22, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Republic of Artsakh, the OSCE Mission conducted a planned monitoring of the ceasefire regime on the border of Artsakh and Azerbaijan, in the south-east of Akna.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has sacked Deputy Prime Minister Ali Hasanov and Deputy Prime Minister Hajibala Abutalibov, RIA Novosti reported citing the Azerbaijani presidency.
Converse Bank starts the subsequent placement of bonds on October 17 and plans to allocate 5 million bonds denominated in US dollars and 1 billion bonds denominated in Armenian drams.
The Parliament of Croatia ratified the Armenia-EU Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA) (115 votes in favor and 4 in absentia), submitting it for the signing of the President, Armenian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Anna Naghdalyan said on Facebook.
According to the decision of the Armenian Prime Minister, Artak Nahapetyan has been relieved from the position of the Director of the Rescue Service of the ministry of emergency situations.
The Union of Journalists of Armenia has condemned the attack on the office of the Nouvelles d’Arménie France-based Armenian newspaper.
President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian sent a letter of condolences to Russian President Vladimir Putin over the dam collapse in an artisanal gold mine in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk Region in Siberia.
During the annual conference of the international network “Education For All” Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan answered to the question of 11th grader from Stepanavan Edik Nazaryan whether “a person is born as a leader or becomes a leader”.
Ex-President Robert Kocharyan has been taken back to jail pending trial after undergoing a surgery at the Izmirlyan Medical Center on October 9. Kocharyan was recovering from the procedure for nearly two weeks at the hospital.
