The Armenian government indicated at the weekend that it will not intervene to try to help Armenia’s leading food exporting company recover its heavy trucks intercepted in Russia nearly three weeks ago.
Armenia’s largest food exporting company, Spayka, warned on Friday that it will have to stop buying fruit and vegetables from local farmers if its 100 or so heavy trucks remain blocked in Russia.
More than 100 heavy trucks belonging to Armenia’s largest food exporting company, Spayka, reportedly remain stranded in Russia more than one week after being intercepted by authorities there for still unknown reasons.
Armenia’s largest food exporting company, Spayka, on Tuesday confirmed reports that authorities in Russia have intercepted in recent days more than 100 of its commercial trucks carrying fresh fruit and vegetables.
An Armenian police officer whose car struck and killed a pregnant woman while leading Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s motorcade in April 2022 was sentenced to 18 months in prison at the end of his marathon trial on Monday.
The pro-government head of Yerevan’s northern Arabkir district has returned to work after spending about a year in prison on bribery charges denied by him.
An Armenian police officer whose car struck and killed a pregnant woman while leading Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s motorcade in April 2022 was found guilty of reckless driving and negligence during his marathon trial on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian insisted on Wednesday that he was not responsible for the April 2022 death of a pregnant woman struck by a police car leading his motorcade.
A group of angry greenhouse owners in the southern Armavir province demonstrated on Friday to demand that the Armenian government take urgent action over Russia’s serious restrictions on the import of cut flowers from Armenia.
The Armenian and Georgian governments have reached an agreement that should remove major obstacles to the transit through Georgia of Armenian brandy exported to Russia, according to Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan.
Georgia has still not given a clear explanation for its decision to introduce physical transit checks that have disrupted part of Armenia’s multimillion-dollar brandy exports to Russia, the Armenian Economy Ministry said on Tuesday.
Georgia’s agriculture minister has abruptly cancelled a visit to Armenia during which he was due to discuss major obstacles to the transit through Georgian territory of Armenian brandy exports to Russia.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian will go on trial for a third time on fresh corruption charges revealed by law-enforcement authorities and rejected by his lawyer and political allies as politically motivated at the weekend.
Representatives of several Armenian companies producing brandy and exporting it to Russia rallied outside Georgia’s embassy in Yerevan on Tuesday to protest against physical checks on their alcoholic beverage conducted during its transit through Georgian territory.
A senior official from Yerevan’s municipal administration facing corruption charges denied by him was arrested on Monday night for the second time in one month.
Residents of two border villages in Armenia’s southeastern Syunik province said on Monday that Azerbaijani troops deployed nearby continued to open cross-border fire overnight.
Azerbaijani forces opened fire at a border village in Armenia’s Syunik province overnight, the Armenian Defense Ministry said on Monday as it denied renewed Azerbaijani allegations of Armenian truce violations along the border between the two countries.
The son of Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman and politician, has still not returned to Armenia more than five months after leaving the country following a shooting incident that led to his indictment.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has brought corruption charges against yet another senior official from Yerevan’s municipal administration.
The uncle of a pregnant woman who died in April 2022 after being hit by a police car leading Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s motorcade has suffered a heart attack during the protracted trial of the car’s driver.
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