Borodin Quartet is in Yerevan

The Borodin Quartet will again perform in Armenia after a six-year break. The concert is organized in the framework of Prospects of the 21st Century Festival.

"Armenia is not an ocean. The country is famous for Lake Sevan which is sacred for us," says Ruben Aharonyan, who joined the group in 1996.

The Quartet celebrates its 65th anniversary in 2010. On this occasion, Armenian Minister of Culture Hasmik Poghosyan today awarded the musicians with a gold medal and congratulated Ruben Aharonyan on his 33rd birthday.

"I am glad that our compatriot, violin player Ruben Aharonyan, is a member of

Borodin Quartet is in Yerevan

The Borodin Quartet will again perform in Armenia after a six-year break. The concert is organized in the framework of Prospects of the 21st Century Festival.

"Armenia is not an ocean. The country is famous for Lake Sevan which is sacred for us," says Ruben Aharonyan, who joined the group in 1996.

The Quartet celebrates its 65th anniversary in 2010. On this occasion, Armenian Minister of Culture Hasmik Poghosyan today awarded the musicians with a gold medal and congratulated Ruben Aharonyan on his 33rd birthday.

"I am glad that our compatriot, violin player Ruben Aharonyan, is a member of

Borodin Quartet is in Yerevan

The Borodin Quartet will again perform in Armenia after a six-year break. The concert is organized in the framework of Prospects of the 21st Century Festival.

"Armenia is not an ocean. The country is famous for Lake Sevan which is sacred for us," says Ruben Aharonyan, who joined the group in 1996.

The Quartet celebrates its 65th anniversary in 2010. On this occasion, Armenian Minister of Culture Hasmik Poghosyan today awarded the musicians with a gold medal and congratulated Ruben Aharonyan on his 33rd birthday.

"I am glad that our compatriot, violin player Ruben Aharonyan, is a member of

Borodin Quartet is in Yerevan

The Borodin Quartet will again perform in Armenia after a six-year break. The concert is organized in the framework of Prospects of the 21st Century Festival.

"Armenia is not an ocean. The country is famous for Lake Sevan which is sacred for us," says Ruben Aharonyan, who joined the group in 1996.

The Quartet celebrates its 65th anniversary in 2010. On this occasion, Armenian Minister of Culture Hasmik Poghosyan today awarded the musicians with a gold medal and congratulated Ruben Aharonyan on his 33rd birthday.

"I am glad that our compatriot, violin player Ruben Aharonyan, is a member of

CHURCH TO BE BUILT WITH THE HELP OF MEANS OF ARTIK PRISONERS

On May 13, the ceremony of blessing the basement of a church to be constructed in the territory of Artik penitentiary institution in Shirak region took place. In accordance with the order, 16 stones symbolizing the 12 apostles, three evangelists, and St. Grigor Lusavorich were put into the basement.
 
The prisoners of the penitentiary institution gathered the money needed for the construction of the church.  Now, they are going also to participate in the constructional works. The staff of the institution also made investments, the press service of Shirak diocese reports.

Source: Lragir.am - Armenian Online

Armenia scores 100th in FIFA rankings

The Armenia football team scored 100th in FIFA rankings for 2010, showing a decline of one degree as compared with last month.

Brazil tops the list, followed by Spain, Portugal, Holland, Italy, Germany, Argentina, England and Croatia.
Armenia's upcoming rivals take different places with Russia coming 11th, Slovakia 34th, Ireland 41st, Macedonia 61st and Andorra 201st.

 

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Azerbaijan has more petrol?

Vice-chairman of the National Assembly Samvel Nikoyan today talked about the subsequent gap in Armenian diplomacy, particularly the low level of Armenian-Czech relations.

The delegation led by Nikoyan paid a visit to the Czech Republic on May 11-18. According to the speaker, the delegation had a broad range of meetings and the reception was at a high level.

The Vice-chairman of the National Assembly informed that the discussions were mainly on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Turkish-Armenian relations and Armenian-Czech inter-parliamentary relations. The Armenian-Czech Friendship group is currently inactive and in general, Nikoyan stressed Azerbaijan's effective lobbying.

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Serge Avedikian receives Palme d’Or

French-Armenian filmmaker Serge Avedikian won the Best Short Film prize at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival for his Chienne D'histoire (Barking Island).

The events of the 15-minute animation film take place in the Ottoman Empire in 1910. The streets of Constantinople are overrun with stray dogs. The newly established government, influenced by a model of western society, uses European experts to choose a method of eradication before deciding, suddenly and alone, to massively deport the dogs to a deserted island away from the city where they die of hunger and thirst.

Many critics say though indirectly, the film depicts

9th suicide reported at top Chinese tech firm

A worker at Foxconn Technology Group, which makes iPhones and iPads, jumped to his death Friday from a building in the southern Chinese boomtown of Shenzhen — the ninth suicide this year at the world's largest contract maker of electronics, state-run Xinhua reported.

The latest victim, logistics worker Nan Gang, 21, leapt from a four-story factory building about a half hour after finishing his shift at 4 a.m., reported the Xinhua News Agency.

A total 11 Foxconn workers have jumped off buildings this year, and two of them survived.

The deaths have raised more questions about working conditions at Foxconn's

Erdogan and Gul in conflict over Armenia-Turkey normalization process

“As a result of the Armenian-Turkish normalization process, Turkish Prime Minister lost power in the context of the inner-political developments and the normalization with Armenia is making him quite problematic,” Mitat Celikpala, Turkish representative at “Caucasus 2009” conference told Panorama.am.

“From the very beginning I was sure that Armenia-Turkey normalization process will launch a conflict between the Turkish President and PM,” he said.
 

Source: Panorama | Armenian news

G. Minasyan: Such resolutions may only do bad turns

“When a deep issue, like the history of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, is not seriously studied, such resolutions may only do bad turns,” Armenian NA ARP deputy Gagik Minasyan told Panorama.am referring to the resolution endorsed by the European Parliament Thursday.

Note that the European Parliament passed Resolution N2216 at a plenary session on May 20 which particularly urges to withdraw the Armenian military forces from the “occupied territories”.

“There is an institution, the OSCE Minsk Group, which has been studying the issue for years, trying to settle it. Parallel involvement of any other institutions in the issue cannot do any

RUSSIANS HONOR AZERIS

On May 12, in the context of Armenia's foreign political behavior, Heritage faction secretary Larisa Alaverdyan recalled an episode from the Victory parade at Moscow Red Square. According to her, when the Azerbaijani soldiers were marching, it was announced about the great contribution they had in the WW II victory, but when the Armenian soldiers appeared in the square, no such an assessment was given.
 
"No word. While, it is well known that Armenians, in comparison with their population, had the highest number of soldiers, victims and heroes. The reason is that in the beginning, Aliyev refused participating

Smbat Margaryan wins gold in Valencia

Armenian weightlifter Smbat Margaryan (56kg) won gold at the European Youth Weightlifting Championships going on in Valencia, Spain.

Margaryan lifted 240kg in snatch, clean and jerk combination.
The Armenian sportsman lifted 105 kg in snatch exercise and 135 kg in jerk winning three medals at a time.

The Armenian team included one female and eight male participants.

 

 

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Seritslev doesn't have three players

Armenia's youth football team is getting ready for the subsequent selective match for the European championship and held its last training today in Yerevan. Tomorrow the team will leave for Talin to being training for the match with the Estonian youth team on May 20.

All guest football players participated in the two-hour training at "Nairi" stadium. Artak Dashyan, playing for "Metalurg" of Donetsk, received an injury during the match and was forced to end training earlier.

After the training, our correspondent asked the team's chief trainer Fleming Seritslev if Dashyan received a serious injury or not, to which

Ash cloud restrictions easing: UK opens Heathrow, Gatwick

Flight restrictions have been lifted at Heathrow, Gatwick and other airports after closures prompted by the return of a volcanic ash cloud to UK airspace, BBC reported.

After many airports faced restrictions over the weekend and into Monday, just two are currently in the no-fly zone: Shetland and Orkney.

The industry has warned that knock-on disruption could last for some hours.
Ash from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano has led to thousands of flights being delayed or cancelled across Europe since April.

The latest UK disruption saw airspace over Northern Ireland close first on Saturday, before the cloud moved south and

Yet another victim: Charlotte Lewis says Roman Polanski raped her too

When he was at the peak of his fame in 1977, director Roman Polanski drugged and anally raped a 13-year-old girl while she begged him to stop. That was illegal in LA back then (misdemeanor now), so he scurried off to France to live with the rest of the perverts.

He’s still fighting extradition back to the US to face these charges and serve his time, and today’s news probably won’t make him run over here any faster.

According to foreign media reports, Charlotte Lewis, who starred in the Polanski film Pirates, spoke at a news conference Friday saying “he

Public TV of Armenia to screen "Sumgait, February, 1988: An Ordinary Genocide" documentary May 15

The Public TV of Armenia will screen “Sumgait, February, 1988: An Ordinary Genocide” documentary Saturday at 10:30pm (local time). It is part of "An Ordinary Genocide" series.

The film is based on documentary materials, including exclusive video materials, photo documents, witness evidence, materials on investigation and legal proceedings, shown for the first time, not only to unveil the truth on what actually happened in Sumgait but also to prove that the events were organized by Azerbaijan’s authorities and special services with participation of the Soviet Union leadership.

The initiators of the project call this a film-condemnation of an offence against

Chess: 2010 US Championship gets underway

2010 US Championship, featuring the Armenian chess players GM Varuzhan Hakobian, GM Melikset Khachiyan, IM Levon Altounian, got underway in Saint Louis May 14.

24 chess players are taking part in the tournament. 20 Grandmasters, including Nakamura, Kamksy, Onishchuk, Shulman, Ehlvest, Christiansen are playing in Saint Louis, Armenian Chess Federation informs.
 

Source: Panorama | Armenian news

President Sargsyan receives Jacques Diouf

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan received today Secretary General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization Jacques Diouf who is in Armenia to participate in the 27th regional conference of FAO, President's press office reported.

Welcoming the conduction of the conference in Armenia, President Sargsyan highly evaluated the efforts of the organization directed toward bringing the undernourishment rate in the world to the minimum and its overcoming. The leader of the country highlighted the contribution of the organization to the increase of the livelihood level in rural areas, ensuring of food security, production of agricultural goods and in general in the

Vladimir Akopian sustains another defeat

Armenian grandmaster Vladimir Akopian lost to Pavel Elyanov (Ukraine) in the 2nd round of Men's Grand Prix in Astrakhan, Russia. After the defeat, Akopian shares the 9-14th places with four chess players with 0.5 points.

In the 3rd round, Akopian will rival another outsider of the tournament Peter Svidler (Russia)

After two games, the standings is led by five chess players with 1,5 points each.

 

 

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Bicycle race drive

Forty bicycle racers from Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh (20 from each republic) will participate in a bicycle race from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh which launched today at Republic Square in Armenia.

The bicycle racers of which the youngest is 12 years old and the oldest is 17 will reach the border with Karabakh where they will be joined by local athletes and will be in all cities of Nagorno-Karabakh within 6 days.

As Head of the Department of Youth Policies at Armenia's Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs Arsen Soghomonyan told "A1+", the bicycle race was organized by Armenia's Ministry of

Bako Sahakyan rates high

On 10 May President of the Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan met managers and representatives of several committees and offices of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation- Dashnaktsutyun's Hay Dat at the head of member of the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun bureau Hakob Ter-Khachatryan.

Bako Sahakyan rated high the efforts of the Hay Dat directed to the recognition of the Armenian Genocide, defending rights of the Armenian people and preserving Armenian national identity in the Diaspora.

The President also noted important the necessity of elucidating different aspects of the Artsakh case, further deepening and widening cooperation with Artsakh in this sphere.

On the same day,

"Sasuntsi David" detachment suffered no human losses during Shushi liberation

The founder of “Sasuntsi David” detachment Hamlet Hovsepyan was in Yerablur today with freedom fighters. He told Panorama.am reporter that his detachment fought for Shushi liberation but suffered no human losses.

“This heroic participation is also my victory,” Hamlet Hovsepyan said.

Arkadi Ter-Tadevosyan also participated in the fights as the detachment member. According to H. Hovsepyan, though with no casualties during Shushi liberation fight, the detachment had 29 deaths during the whole fight for liberty.

The commander said they have “not a single inch of land” to hand.
 

Source: Panorama | Armenian news

Boxing: Darchinyan vs Barcelona for IBO bantamweight belt

WBA/WBC super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan will move up to bantamweight when he faces Eric Barcelona on May 20 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The fight has been approved for IBO bantamweight title, according to Boxingscene.

Source: Panorama | Armenian news

Armenian Foreign Minister to meet with OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs in Brussels

Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian is due to leave for Strasbourg on May 11 to participate in the meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Council of Europe member states.

Minister Nalbandian will leave Strasbourg for Brussels, where he will participate in the sitting of the North Atlantic Council in 28+1 format, with the Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan, MFA reported. The process of implementation of the Armenia-NATO Individual Partnership Action Plan will be discussed at the sitting.

The Armenian Foreign Minister will meet with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs in Brussels.

Source: Panorama | Armenian news

People will say their word May 30

“The elections are of fatal significance for Javakhk since the people have been suppressed for years and so they are now, though, I am sure they will say their word,” the co-chair of Georgian “Virk” non-registered party Davit Rstakyan told Panorama.am, referring to the local self-government elections. Note that D. Rstakyan is running as a candidate in the elections.

According to him, the council of Javakhk non-governmental organizations participates in the elections and he is convinced that people will vote for them since they realize that it’s this very team that carries responsibility for the protection of their rights. Seeing

CBA issues new coin

The Central Bank of Armenia has put into circulation silver coins to the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff.

The coin is released in the framework of Football Kings program. The coin bears Cruyff's portrait with his signature at the bottom.

Designer is Robert Kotovich from Poland. The coin is printed on the Polish Mint

 

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Lilit Mkrtchyan wins in Nalchik

Armenian chess player Lilit Mkrtchyan defeated Baira Kovanova (Russia) in the 8th tour of Women's Fide Grand Prix tournament in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria.
Currently, Lilit Mkrtchyan shares 6-7th places with Indian Humpri Konerun with 4 points.

Armenian chess player Elina Danielyan played a tie with Zhu Chen of China. Danielyan is the last on the standings with 1,5 points.

In the 9th round Lilit Mkrtchyan will face Humpri Konerun and Elina Danielyan - Bathuyag Mongontuul (Mongolia)

Tatyana Kosintseva (Russia) is in the lead with 6,5 points followed by four chess players with 5 points each.

 

 

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Losing the War

BY TAMAR KEVONIAN

A recent column from these pages traveled the wide highways of the internet and found a home on another Armenia related website. The notice popped up in my inbox and, curious, I clicked on the link. First I noticed the advertising for a singles website, then, in the process of looking for the text of the column, I scrolled down the page where my attention was captured by a bright orange banner ad for the Anatolian Cultures & Food Festival.

Anatolia refers to a region in the world that is part of Asia Minor (the eastern end of Asia) – from the Black Sea in the north, the Mediterranean Sea in the south, the Aegean Sea in the west to the Taurus Mountains in the east. Today it is considered part of Turkey, who inherited it from the Ottomans who wrestled it away from the Armenians, who were preceded by the Byzantines and so on through the Romans, the Greeks, and all the way back to the Hittites. Armenians refer to the area as Giligia.

The website is well designed and informative. Its sponsors include the Turkish-American Chamber of Commerce, West America Turkic council, Westwood

Landslide hampered railway traffic

Landslide caused by continuous rains halted train traffic on the 10th km of Vanadzor-Alaverdi covering the railway with a 500-metre layer of soil.

Thanks to the efforts of local rescuers, the road was partially cleaned yesterday evening. The traffic was temporally resumed.

Special equipment was provided from Yerevan for removing huge blocks from the railway.

 

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