Armenia
Outrage after Yerevan’s Mayor calls local media a ‘big garbage dump’
The comments came after Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan was investigated for corruption by CivilNet and the OCCRP.
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In this week’s episode of the Caucasus Digest, OC Media’s Editor-in-Chief, Robin Fabbro, talks to Mariam Nikuradze about her latest photostory about elektrichkas, or suburban trains, in Georgia.
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Ani Avetisyan talks about a new bill pushed by the Armenian Ministry of Defense to allow conscripts to avoid military service in exchange for a fee of $61,000.
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