Day: 18 May 2021

Employees of the General Directorate of the Criminal Police of Armenia have detained the former Minister of Transport and Communications, ex-Mayor of Yerevan Gagik Beglaryan, NewsMedia reports on May 18 referring to the Armenian media. According to the media, Beglaryan has been on the wanted list since March 2020. He was charged under paragraph 1 of part 3 of article 179 and part 2 of article 308 of the Criminal Code of Armenia. The former minister was taken from the ‘Zvartnots’ airport to the ‘Yerevan’ penitentiary of the Ministry of Justice, better…

The incident in Georgia is purely domestic in nature, Azerbaijani MP, head of the working group for the Azerbaijani-Georgian interparliamentary relations Arzu Naghiyev told Trend on May 17. “There is no ethnic factor in this issue,” Naghiyev added. “The incident occurred on a domestic basis, without any ethnic factors,” the MP said. “Those who are against close cooperation and partnership between Azerbaijan and Georgia are trying to present this as an interethnic incident.” “But all these attempts are doomed to fail,” Naghiyev said. “This is an incident between people on a domestic…