Month: February 2015

DEVIL’S DUE EXPLORES THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN OPERATION NEMESIS

12:55, 20 Feb 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan

Human history has a lot of dark moments….the Armenian genocide is one
of them, comicsbeat.com writes. It presents an interesting project by
Devil’s Due called Operation Nemesis: A Story of Genocide & Revenge – a
graphic novel honoring the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

In 1915, Talaat Pasha, leader of the Turkish Ottomon Empire ordered
the mass execution of every Armenian within his nation’s borders,
resulting in the death of over 1,500,000 victims. Writer Josh Blaylocl
and artist Hoyl Silva tell the story of Soghomon Tehlirian, an Armenian
survivor who killed Pasha on the streets of Berlin and walked away
from court a free man.

Besides Blaylock and Hoyt, Greg & Fake Studio provide the colors,
and David Krikorian and Thomas Dardarian are listed as producer and
co-producer respectively. Pin-ups will be provided by Dan Panosian,
Sedat Oezgen, and Harry Bogosian, son of monologist Eric Bogosian,
and formerly a student of Paul Pope.

Bogosian Sr. has a prose book on the same topic coming out later.

3,300-YEAR-OLD SHRINES USED FOR READING FUTURE UNCOVERED IN ARMENIA

10:10, 20 Feb 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan

Three shrines, dating back about 3,300 years, have been discovered
within a hilltop fortress at Gegharot, in Armenia, according to an
article published by Live Science.

Local rulers at the time likely used the shrines for divination, a
practice aimed at predicting the future, the archaeologists involved
in the discovery say.

Each of the three shrines consists of a single room holding a clay
basin filled with ash and ceramic vessels. A wide variety of artifacts
were discovered including clay idols with horns, stamp seals, censers
used to burn substances and a vast amount of animal bones with markings
on them. During divination practices, the rulers and diviners may
have burnt some form of substances and drank wine, allowing them to
experience “altered” states of mind, the archaeologists say.

“The logic of divination presumes that variable pathways articulate
the past, present and future, opening the possibility that the link
between a current situation and an eventual outcome might be altered,”
write Adam Smith and Jeffrey Leon, in an article published recently in
the American Journal of Archaeology. Smith is a professor at Cornell
University, and Leon is a graduate student there.

The fortress at Gegharot is one of several strongholds built at around
this time in Armenia. “Evidence to date suggests that this coordinated
process of fortress construction was part of the emergence of a
single polity that built and occupied multiple sites in the region,”
write Smith and Leon.

Smith believes that Gegharot would have been used as an occult center
for the rulers. “I would think that this is probably a cult center
largely specializing in servicing the emerging rulers from the ruling
class,” he told Live Science in an interview.

At the time, writing had not yet spread to this part of Armenia so
the name of the polity, and its rulers, are unknown.

Smith and Leon found evidence for three forms of divination at
Gegharot. One form was osteomancy, trying to predict the future through
rituals involving animal bones, in this case the knucklebones of cows,
sheep and goat.

The knucklebones, which were covered in burns and other markings,
would have been rolled like dice in rituals attempting to predict the
future, Smith said. “You would roll them and depending upon whether
the scorched side or the marked side came up you would get a different
interpretation,” Smith said.

Lithomancy, trying to predict the future through the use of stone,
also appears to have been practiced at Gegharot. Inside a basin at one
shrine, archaeologists found 18 small pebbles. “These stones appear
to have been selected for their smooth, rounded shape and their color
palette, which ranged from black and dark gray to white, green and
red,” Smith and Leon write. How exactly these unmarked stones would
have been used in rituals is unknown.

At one shrine, on the fortress’ east citadel, the archaeologists
found an installation used to grind flour. Smith and Leon think that
this flour could have been used to predict the future in a practice
called aleuromancy.

“What is conspicuous about the grinding installation in the east
citadel shrine is the lack of a formal oven for bread baking,” Smith
and Leon write. The shrine’s basin “was clearly used for burning
materials and certainly could have been used to bake small balls of
dough, but it is unlikely that it would have been used to cook loaves
of bread.”

Stamp seals found at the shrine would have allowed people to punch
a variety of shapes into dough. “One possibility (admittedly among
many others) is that the stamps marked the dough that was then used
for aleuromancy.”

The shrines were in use for a century or so until the surrounding
fortress, along with all the other fortresses in the area, were
destroyed. The site was largely abandoned after this, Smith said.

At the time, there was a great deal of conflict in the south Caucasus
with a number of regional polities fighting against each other,
Smith said. The polity that controlled Gegharot seems to have been
wiped out in one of those conflicts.

Although the rulers who controlled Gegharot put great effort into
trying to predict and change the future, it was to no avail — their
great fortresses being torched in a cataclysm they could not avoid.

Excavations at the shrines are part of the American-Armenian Project
for the Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies
(Project ArAGATS).

The west terrace shrine was excavated in 2003, the west citadel shrine
in 2008, and the east citadel shrine in 2010 and 2011.

ARMENIA’S FOREIGN TRADE SHRINKS 30.4% IN JANUARY 2015

YEREVAN, February 20. /ARKA/. Armenia’s foreign trade turnover shrank
30.4% in January 2015, compared with January 2014, to $272.5 million,
the National Statistical Service of Armenia reports.

According to the statistical report, the country’s exports totaled
$75.6 million in January 2015 showing a 21.9% year-on-year decline,
and imports $196.9 million – a 33.2% decline.

As a result, negative balance amounted to $121.3 million in January
2015. –0—–

“MY HEART’S DUTY”: TER-PETROSYAN APPEALS FOR SUPPORT TO TSARUKYAN

POLITICS | 20.02.15 | 10:35

RELATED NEWS

Tsarukyan Beats Retreat: PAP leader advocates “political way” of
solving problems

Opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan
has called for “popular assistance and moral support” to his
embattled ally Gagik Tsarukyan after the tycoon and his political
team essentially abandoned their immediate plans to seek a regime
change amid a government crackdown launched against them.

In a statement released on Wednesday, Tsarukyan, the leader of the
Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), said he advocated a “political way”
of settling disputes. Thus, he effectively ended a tense standoff with
President Serzh Sargsyan and his ruling Republican Party of Armenia
that began on February 12 when the head of state called Tsarukyan
“evil” and a “pseudo-political phenomenon” and called for his ouster
from politics.

Dozens of Tsarukyan loyalists were detained and their businesses were
inspected in the following days. The government also announced that
it will conduct a probe into allegations that Tsarukyan has hidden
large sums of money from the state budget “under the guide of charity”.

In an article published through ilur.am on Thursday, Ter-Petrosyan
singled out a number of political mistakes made by Tsarukyan, in
particular his decisions not to go ahead with planned nonstop rallies
in April and October last year.

“Some of these mistakes reflect Tsarukyan’s lack of political
experience, but the greater part of them were made because of a bunch
of troublemakers inside the PAP that are guided from a different
center and pursue a different program,” Ter-Petrosyan said without
elaborating.

In conclusion of his article entitled “My Heart’s Duty”, the first
president of Armenia wrote: “The Armenian National Congress and I
have never forgotten the merit of any person or organization that have
done even a little service to the nation and the state no matter how
our relations with them turned out to be later on. So, I expect that
“my heart’s duty” that I’ve expressed in this article will become
“the duty of the hearts” of all healthy political forces and all
honest citizens.”

FORGET-ME-NOT: A SYMBOL OF GENOCIDE CENTENNIAL MAKING ITS WAY INTO ARMENIANS’ LIFE

GENOCIDE | 20.02.15 | 11:45

Alina Nikoghosyan
ArmeniaNow intern

Forget-me-nots, a chosen symbol of commemoration of the Centennial of
the Armenian Genocide, in colors symbolizing the past, the present
and the future, the light and the eternity, have increasingly been
taking a more prominent place in the life of Armenians in Armenia
and around the world in recent days and weeks.

The massacres of Armenians that began in the Ottoman Empire still
in the 19th century peaked in 1915 turning into a state genocidal
campaign, with 1.5 million Armenians slaughtered in the subsequent
few years. In 2015, Armenians in different parts of the world as well
as in Armenia itself will be holding many events to commemorate the
victims of the Genocide on its 100th anniversary.

Under a decision of the State Committee coordinating these events,
the forget-me-not flower has been selected as the official symbol of
the commemorations, while “I Remember and Demand” was chosen as the
motto for the anniversary, because the flower represents the graphic
image of 12 stone slabs of the memorial to the Armenian Genocide
victims at Tsitsernakaberd (Swallow Fortress).

The five petals of the flower symbolize five parts of the world
where Armenians were scattered after the Genocide and created the
Armenian Diaspora.

The flower has four colors – black in the center, symbolizing the
Armenian past, then it is surrounded by yellow which pictures the
light and the eternity in the form of 12 pillars standing in a circle
symbolizing the memorial of Tsitsernakaberd. Light purple is the
present and the prevailing purple – the future.

The small flower that contains much notion in it has already managed
to become widely popular among Armenians. Reporters of many TV stations
appear on screens with a Forget-Me-Not badge.

The idea of the forget-me-not seems to have appealed to the ruling
party as well, as both President Serzh Sargsyan and other senior
Republican Party members appear in public wearing Forget-Me-Not badges.

Schools will not stay apart from the “Forget-me-nots”; among other
events devoted to the Centennial of the Genocide the Armenian Ministry
of Education and Science will organize an event in all public
educational institutions on March 24, when all schoolchildren of
5-12 grades will prepare the symbol of forget-me-nots – 1.5 million
pieces, which later, on April 24, will be handed to visitors of
Tsitsernakaberd.

And although the official website of the Centennial of the Armenian
Genocide says that already in April Forget-Me-Not badges will be
provided for free, it did not avoid “business interests”, and those
willing to purchase forget-me-nots earlier are offered a bunch of
Forget-me-nots – not only badges, but also earrings, key-holders, etc.

According to some media reports, a local businessman has produced fake
badges, selling them in his stores for 200 AMD (about 40 cent) a piece.

However, as a symbol the forget-me-not has not unanimously been
accepted and has been criticized by some as well.

According to filmmaker Tigran Khzmlyan, who is also a former member
of the Pre-parliament civil initiative, the forget-me-not is not a
proper symbol for the Genocide Centennial, because according to him,
Armenians have long had their symbolic flower.

“The forget-me-not is understandable in an abstract sense, however,
it is not now that we are searching for cultural symbols for us, and
in our poetry and folklore, in our image system a completely different
flower symbolizes the Armenian pain, it is the poppy. In the image of
the previous generation a poppy symbolized the blood of the diseased,
meaning the beauty of the poor nature of our mountains, it is red,
but has black in its heart,” Khzmlyan said.

As for the slogan of the flower – “I Remember and Demand”, according
to the film director, it might create a misunderstanding in Turkey.

“If we take a forget-me-not, as a symbol of memory, we appear in a
quite ambiguous situation. The thing is we have nothing to remember,
we are not looking at it from aside and thus we seem to appear in the
Turkish trap. Besides, there is also another unpleasant peculiarity –
the forget-me-not, as it turns out, has numerously been used, it is a
banal and discredited symbol, which we see in many political parties,
religious units and most ridiculously, it is the logo of many trading
companies,” Khzmlyan said.

Nevertheless, the symbolic “Forget-me-not” will at least this year be
in the center of Armenian attention, and Europe’s biggest pop music
contest, Eurovision, will be no exception.

Armenia has decided to unite around Eurovision 2015 the new generation
of all Armenians who were scattered around the five continents
(Europe, America, Asia, Africa, and Australia) in 1915 and five
singers of Armenian origin are associated with five petals of the
flower. They will be joined by one singer from Armenia who will unite
the petals. The group that will be formed for the contest will be
called The Genealogy – 6 artists, 6 destinies, one story, and the
title of the song is – “Don’t Deny”.

TURQUIE : RAGIP ZARAKOLU SOUTIENT SABAHAT TUNCEL SUR LE GENOCIDE ARMENIEN

Publie le : 20-02-2015

Info Collectif VAN РРRagip Zarakolu, cel̬bre
ecrivain turc, editeur et militant des droits de l’homme, soutient
la proposition de loi de Sabahat Tuncel, deputee [kurde] du Parti
democratique du peuple (HDP), exigeant la reconnaissance du genocide
armenien par la Turquie et la declaration du 24 avril comme jour de
deuil, soumise a la Grande Assemblee nationale turque. Suivant son
projet de loi, Tuncel exige que le president Erdogan presente ses
excuses au peuple armenien dans un lieu historique. Selon Zarakolu
le lieu le plus convenable pourrait etre les escaliers qui mènent a
la gare de Haydar Pacha, par où passait le chemin de l’exil et de
la mort des intellectuels armeniens. Le Collectif VAN vous invite
a lire la traduction d’un article en armenien, paru sur le site
armeniangenocide100.org le 12 fevrier 2015.

(c) PAN Photo

armeniangenocide100.org

Ragip Zarakolu soutient la proposition de loi d’une deputee turque,
appelant a la reconnaissance du genocide armenien

Le 12 fevrier 2015

Ragip Zarakolu, celèbre ecrivain turc, editeur et militant des
droits de l’homme, a annonce que Sabahat Tuncel, deputee [kurde]
du Parti democratique du peuple (HDP), avait soumis une resolution a
la Grande Assemblee nationale turque, exigeant la reconnaissance du
genocide armenien par la Turquie et la declaration du 24 avril comme
jour de deuil.

>, – rapporte
Diarioarmenia.org.

Selon Zarakolu, “La Turquie qui est incapable de faire face a son
passe, ne peut pas assurer une reconciliation durable. La resolution
du problème, est conditionnee tout d’abord a l’affrontement avec sa
propre histoire “.

Suivant son projet de loi, Tuncel exige que le president Erdogan
presente ses excuses au peuple armenien dans un lieu historique. Selon
Zarakolu, le lieu le plus convenable pourrait etre les escaliers qui
mènent a la gare de Haydar Pacha, par où passait le chemin de l’exil
et de la mort des intellectuels armeniens.

Zarakolu note qu’en 2012, il avait envoye de sa prison, une lettre a
la Presidence de la Grande Assemblee de Turquie, faisant appel a la
reconnaissance du genocide armenien et exhortant le parlement turc a
s’excuser auprès des Armeniens, tandis qu’en 1998, les organisations
luttant contre le genocide, dont Zarakolu etait membre, avaient
recueilli plus de 10 000 signatures des Turcs vivant en Allemagne
en exigeant la reconnaissance du genocide armenien [Nota CVAN :
Cette petition avait notamment ete portee en Allemagne par le Turc
Ali Ertem].

“J’espère que la proposition du projet de loi de Sabahat Tuncel sera
serieusement examinee, et qu’un accord necessaire sera signe,” ecrit
le courageux intellectuel turc Zarakolu.

(c)Traduction de l’armenien Collectif VAN – 16 fevrier 2015 –

Lire aussi :

Turquie : Mustafa Kemal a reconnu les massacres de masse de millions
de Chretiens

Genocide armenien : Soumission d’une resolution au parlement turc

Le Collectif VAN rend hommage aux militants turcs

Genocide : appel vibrant au Parlement de Turquie

Liberte pour Ragip Zarakolu : Dossier complet du Collectif VAN

Source/Lien : armeniangenocide100.org

L’ANNEE 1915, MALEDICTION TURQUE

Publie le : 19-02-2015

Info Collectif VAN – – Cengiz Aktar, intellectuel
turc, specialiste des questions europeennes, a publie en francais dans
Liberation une tribune intitulee “L’annee 1915, malediction turque”.

Il s’interroge au sujet de la Turquie : “Sommes-nous frappes d’une
malediction couplee a un mensonge centenaire ?” L’auteur parle de
“degenerescence engendree par le genocide”. Pour memoire, Cengiz
Aktar est l’un des 4 initiateurs de la petition turque lancee en
decembre 2008 afin d’adresser des excuses aux Armeniens pour la
“Grande Catastrophe” de 1915, ce terme etant destine – de l’aveu meme
de l’un des quatre intellectuels turcs – a jeter aux oubliettes la
qualification de >, adoptee par de nombreux
parlements a travers le monde. L’article de Cengiz Aktar a d’abord
ete publie fin decembre en anglais sur Today’s Zaman, mais surtout,
et ce fait est essentiel, en turc dans Taraf. Un bon point pour Cengiz
Aktar qui a tendance d’ordinaire a tenir ce type de propos uniquement
a destination de l’Europe, pour montrer la “magnifique ouverture”
d’une certaine Turquie. Dommage que la traduction en francais soit
vraiment de piètre qualite. Une relecture du texte aurait ete d’autant
plus necessaire que le sujet ne supporte pas d’approximations.

Si les propos sont très forts, on aurait aime que Cengiz Aktar n’ait
pas pour seul objectif ce qui peut faire du bien aux Turcs (cette
fameuse >), mais qu’il parle egalement des
reparations dues aux Armeniens. La dimension de reconnaissance des
crimes enumeres et de denonciation du deni est irreprochable, mais
tout est uniquement axe sur le bien que cela ferait a la Turquie de
reconnaître ses crimes, et sur le mal que le genocide armenien a fait
a l’Anatolie. En somme, l’essentiel est que le meurtrier soit soulage.

La demande de justice de la victime n’est clairement pas l’angle
choisi.

Autre sujet d’inquietude : on ne sait pas comment cette mention
de la “malediction” des morts armeniens peut etre percue par des
ultra-nationalistes turcs. “Ah, ces Armeniens : meme morts, ils sont
toxiques. Quel lobby a eliminer d’urgence !”

Enfin, la relation de facto entre > est irrationnelle et partisane.

Pour etre credible, Cengiz Aktar aurait dû plutôt relier la > aux problèmes d’identite et de societe qui empoisonnent
la Turquie depuis un siècle.

Il serait bon de lire ou relire a cette occasion le texte du chercheur
turc Sait Cetinoglu, paru sur le site Repair (voir en fin d’article).

Cetinoglu y expose les raisons pour lesquelles les compensations et
indemnisations sont une necessite morale et explique pourquoi une
restitution sans condition des biens armeniens devenus propriete
d’Etat s’impose. Rappelant que . Nous allons suivre comment les
tenants actuels de l’Etat vont redoubler d’efforts, en Turquie
et a l’etranger, pour masquer cette honte. S’ils le pouvaient,
ils zapperaient l’an 2015 pour passer directement en 2016 ! La > negationniste, limitee a quatre thèses indignes -revolte,
collaboration avec l’ennemi, visees et provocations des imperialistes
et autovictimisation (>)- sera recitee dans de conferences encravatees. Nous
serons les seuls a ecouter cette chanson.

Et les 24 et 25 avril, des ceremonies officielles seront organisees
non a l’occasion du genocide, mais pour l’> aux
Dardanelles. Nous allons ecouter de nombreux contes heroïques sur
cette bataille, mais nous ne pourrons pas convaincre grand monde de
les entendre avec nous. Que faut-il qu’il nous arrive de plus pour
qu’on puisse regler nos comptes avec cette sanguinaire invention de
la nation ? Pour apprendre et commemorer l’extermination d’un peuple
travailleur et paisible par ses voisins martiaux et spoliateurs. Pour
pouvoir ressentir, ne serait-ce qu’un bref moment, l’ampleur de la
persecution au cours de ces sombres journees de l’ete 1915, aussi
glacial que la mort.

Pour laisser enfin de côte les devinettes stupides > et les mots croises sur >, et n’ecoutons que notre conscience : comment ce peuple armenien
de quelques millions d’âmes en 1915 a totalement disparu d’Anatolie,
comment les rares survivants doivent leur existence a la conversion
forcee et a une vie dissimulee.

Pour saisir, enfin, le genocide culturel parfait, selon les termes
du journaliste assassine Hrant Dink, et la perte immense d’une
civilisation.

Pour realiser que le genocide nomme a cette epoque par les Armeniens
la > n’a pas ete seulement la leur, mais aussi
celle de tout le pays.

Pour se rendre compte que le sort de nos citoyens non musulmans qui
ont ete tues, chasses et obliges a fuir est egalement une extermination
et une perte de culture et de civilisation.

Pour ressentir le blâme des enfants et petits-enfants après la
confiscation des biens et des proprietes. Pour s’impregner de
la sagesse de Yasar Kemal qui affirme : >

Meme ceux qui rejetteront, d’un revers de la main, toutes ces
verites, ne le feront qu’a cause de la degenerescence engendree
par le genocide. Le genocide armenien, la Grande Catastrophe
de l’Anatolie, est la mère de tous les tabous sur ces terres. Sa
malediction continuera de nous frapper aussi longtemps qu’on refusera
d’en parler, de la dechiffrer, de faire face. Son centenaire est
une occasion historique de laisser de côte tout ce qu’on a appris
par coeur, d’entendre et de comprendre l’Autre et de commencer la
therapie collective.

Lire aussi :

1915, Le peuple turc doit regarder la verite en face

Source/Lien : Liberation

From: A. Papazian

THE GROUP WORKING ON KARABAKH PEACE DEAL SHOULD BE TRILATERAL: NKR PRESIDENT’S SPOKESMAN

15:42, 20 Feb 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan

The group that will prepare a peace deal on Nagorno Karabakh settlement
should be trilateral, Spokesman for the President of the Nagorno
Karabakh Republic has said.

“We have always backed any constructive approach, but the group should
be trilateral with Artsakh, Armenia and Azerbaijan represented,”
NKR President’s Spokesman David Babayan told Public Radio of Armenia.

He added that the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs and the Personal
Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office should also be
represented in this format.

The comments come after Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov
told a press conference in Tbilisi that Azerbaijan had accepted the
proposal for establishment of a working group to prepare a peace
agreement.

“Everyone understands that the conflict cannot last forever.

Continuation of this process creates difficulties and dangers for
the peace deal” Mammadyarov stated.

David Babayn noted that such working groups should be engaged in most
elementary issues – revealing of the cases of ceasefire violation,
punishing the guilty, etc. “Only after this will it be possible to
discuss new proposals,” he added.

According to Babayan, speaking about the application of new approaches
is untimely.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

RUSSIA IS PLANNING SAFAROV 2

Hakob Badalyan, Political Commentator
Comments – 20 February 2015, 15:09

Alexander Lukashevich, the official representative of the Russian
foreign minister, told the Azerbaijani AP News Agency that Russia
will discuss with its Armenian partners handing of the Azerbaijani
saboteur Dilham Askerov to Azerbaijan.

A few days ago the U.S. Assistant Secretary Victoria Nuland announced
first in Baku, then in Yerevan that if Yerevan makes a humanitarian
step and hand the saboteurs. Nuland noted that they committed a
horrible crime.

After Nuland’s statement a real official-expert campaign started in
Armenia and Artsakh that it is not the United States’ business and
the United States is promoting the interests of Azerbaijan and so on.

Interestingly, at the same time Azerbaijan was highly dissatisfied
with the U.S. policy in Artsakh. In other words, some officials and
experts in Armenia are equally dissatisfied with the U.S. policy.

Meanwhile, after Lavrov’s statement, which was a few months ago, nobody
in Azerbaijan and Armenia complained though it seemed that Armenia and
Artsakh should have treated Lavrov the way they later treated Nuland.

Moreover, there are stronger reasons to treat Lavrov more toughly.

Unlike the United States, Russia has signed a document on strategic
partnership with Armenia, has commitments to Armenia, namely prevention
of its citizens from sabotages against Armenia.

However, if Russia does not hesitate to take under its aegis Permyakov
who killed 7 people, Askerov’s crime should be just a misunderstanding
to them and, Moscow thinks, Armenia and Artsakh have absolutely no
reason to hold him.

So now the official representative of the MFA says that Lavrov’s
statement is valid, and the issue will be discussed with the Armenian
side. And there is no word from Armenia or Artsakh. Well, Lavrov
is neither from the United States, nor Europe. He is from Moscow so
no word.

Moreover, it is not ruled out that the Russians have even started
discussing the issue with the Armenian side and therefore there was an
attack on Nuland because the United States could actually hinder the
process of the Armenian-Russian negotiations on handing the saboteur.

And it is not ruled out that Nuland’s statements were made in Yerevan
and Baku to thwart these negotiations, to publicize the issue and
bring it to public focus, in order to prevent another Safarov case
when Russia, Azerbaijan and Hungary got through Safarov’s extradition
and glorification and only then did official Yerevan wake up and start
throwing eggs at some embassy in Yerevan than had some relationship to
Hungary, demonstrating to the society that they were given a surprise
and were angered but what else could they do aside from throwing eggs?

Now the United States is trying to wake up the society of Armenia and
Artsakh to make sure that the public does not wake up one beautiful
morning and watch how the Azerbaijani saboteur handed to Russia is
holding an interview with some Russian Life News.

ANGERED NAIRIT EMPLOYEES HEADING TO PRESIDENTIAL PALACE

14:12 | February 20,2015 | Social

None of the government officials has come out to talk to the employees
of Nairit chemical plant who have been protesting outside the building
for several times.

Our correspondent reports from the ground that the protesters are
now heading to the Presidential Palace situation at 26 Baghramyan to
voice their demands.