17:00 News in Brief: Animal Cruelty, Dangerous Teapots in Market, and Tigran Arzakantsyan's Bankruptcy

A summary of the news from the past hour:

• The Ministry of Internal Affairs is taking steps to identify the driver who was dragging a dog with a car.
• The State Market Surveillance Inspectorate warns about the sale of dangerous teapots imported from Germany.
• Residents of Nurnus village in Kotayk Province have started protests against the stench caused by a local factory.
• A court has declared businessman and former MP Tigran Arzakantsyan bankrupt.
• Many Armenians living in Russia are coming to Armenia specifically to vote in favor of the “Civil Contract” party in the elections, as announced by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
• At that time, the state has always emphasized the role of the army, and this has always been the case, said Robert Kocharyan, leader of the “Armenia” alliance.
• Turkish journalists have studied the prospects for the reopening of the Armenia-Turkey railway and border crossing in Gyumri.
• The President of Belarus has stated that the only way to succeed in military conflicts is through ground operations.