The Region in Brief

Armenia Armenia's former Deputy Health Minister and current Deputy Mayor of Yerevan Gevorg Simonyan is being held in pre-trial detention after being arrested last week on charges of embezzling funds. Investigators from Armenia's Anti-Corruption Committee allege that Simonyan worked with the head of a local medical center to embezzle 119 million dram ($300,000) from government funds allocated for patients with COVID-19. Artsakh The factions of the National Assembly of the Republic of Art