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Some Guy Looks Out His Office Window, Determines Customs Rate: Gyumri Drivers Protest
"For example, for a $4,000 Opel, they want a customs duty of $3,300; someone was bringing a $10,000 jeep and they wanted a...Read More »
Georgian Citizen Attempts to Import Contraband Caviar into Armenia
"About 5.5 kgs of red and black caviar was found in a Tbilisi-Spitak taxi going to Armenia in the possession of Georgian citizen Naira...Read More »
Turkey’s Foreign Minister to Go to Georgia for Official Visit
Turkey's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davutoglu will be in Georgia from Feb. 11–12, Georgian Deputy Minister of Foreign...
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Bangladesh Nationalist Party Strike Halts Normal Life in Dhaka
Normal life has ground to a halt in Dhaka following a general strike called by Bangladesh's main opposition party against the...Read More »
Drivers Protest in Gyumri’s Main Square: Police Say, Go Home
"Four people went with them to the regional police division, they say, let's go and call the prime minister, or another relevant official, in...Read More »
Traffic Jam on Yerevan-Gyumri Route: Javakheti Armenians Join the Protest
A few-kilometers-long traffic jam on the Yerevan to Gyumri route has ensued today as a result of protesting Gyumri drivers blocking the road.Read More »
Protestors Outside Presidential Residence Trust Armenia’s President
Ara Karapetyan is one of ten people accused of breaking into the home of and assaulting former chair of the RA State Customs Committee...Read More »
Armenians in Turkey’s Dersim Continue to Live with ‘the Fear of the Past’: Gültekin
Armenians began to move to Dersim at the end of the 19th century, escaping from the massacre, and all those who live here, according to...Read More »
Protesting Armenian Drivers Block Gyumri-Yerevan Route
Drivers working in Gyumri, Armenia's second-largest city, are continuing their protest, which began Saturday, outside the...Read More »
Heydar Aliyev Helped Me Get an Apartment in Moscow: Interview with Dzigarkhanyan
"When famous Armenian poet Hovhannes Tumanyan saw conflict arising between Armenian and Azerbaijani villages, for example, due to...Read More »