Month: February 2021

 10:11, 1 February, 2021

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 1, ARMENPRESS. President of the Football Federation of Armenia (FFA) Armen Melikbekyan appointed Yura Movsisyan as the FFA ambassador in North America, the FFA reports.

Former Armenian national team striker Yura Movsisyan, who made a decision to retire, made an announcement with important messages included in it.

 “Throughout my career, I have always been aware that this day will come for me too, and thought mine will be easier than what many of my retired friends were telling me, but man they were not kidding. For the past year,  given everything that was happening with my injuries and  leaving RSL, I made my mind up to better retire now with a few good offers on the table than try pushing it for another couple of years. Every time I have stepped on the field to play, I have given nothing less than a 100% and knowing right now that I won’t be 100% I would never disrespect my teammates and lie to them.

I’ve had 14 great years of doing what I love doing, and doing it all over the world. My family and I have lived in some of the best cities in the world. Denmark, Russia, Armenia, Sweden and the United States. I am thankful to all my club teammates and coaches. I am really happy to have played alongside some great players in great clubs.

Every football player that starts playing from a young age knows that representing your country is the biggest honor you can accomplish in your career. I decided to represent my home country of Armenia instead of the US National Team. Although playing for the US team would have given me a better chance to play in a World Cup, for me it was a bigger honor to be able to make a difference for my country Armenia. I joined the Armenian National Team in my 5th year of playing professional because I wanted to actually make a big difference when I arrived. I wanted to make a big difference and help change Armenian football when i arrived and i think I can proudly say that I brought change to Armenian Football. Being part of probably one of the best generations in football history in Armenia that has brought soo much joy to our people, is probably my biggest accomplishment in my 14 year career.

Summarizing it all I want to thank all my teammates in the national team. Without them my career would never be what it was like.  A big thank you to all the coaches and staff, both of the national team and the FFA, to all those people who had an important role during my career. Special thanks to our amazing fans, who were by my side during the most difficult times for me. I hope and I am sure that we will meet soon, whatever my status will be”.

“Yura Movsisyan is one of the best Armenian players after independence. I am sure his knowledge, experience and enthusiasm will be very useful for the cooperation we are going to start. Yura Movsisyan will be the bridge which will help to make the links between FFA and our compatriots in North America stronger”, Armen Melikbekyan, FFA president said.

Yura Movsisyan: “I am very honored to be appointed as the ambassador. After retiring from football I want to be as helpful to our football as I can. A lot of Armenians live in USA and in North America. This is the reason it's important to have good links between the Diaspora and Armenia, have a contribution in solving the problems faster and development of the football”.

 10:50, 1 February, 2021

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 1, ARMENPRESS. The specialists of the International Mine Action Center of the Russian defense ministry continue demining works in the territory of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh), the Russian defense ministry reports.

The engineering units of the Russian peacekeeping forces have already cleared nearly 859,3 hectares of land, 245,8 km long roads, 505 buildings. Over 23,936 explosive devices were found and neutralized.

In the course of demining and clearing the territory of explosive objects in Nagorno Karabakh, Russian peacekeepers use modern robotic systems.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

 10:54, 1 February, 2021

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 1, ARMENPRESS. A transfer pricing audit will be performed in Armenia for the first time ever, with Veolia Jur CJSC volunteering to the tax authorities to be the first business to undergo the process, the State Revenue Committee said.

The pilot program will be conducted jointly with specialists from the Italian tax service, and the audit will not lead to any tax consequences for the business.

The pilot program within the framework of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Tax Inspectors Without Borders project is expected to develop Armenian taxation agency’s capacities in conducting transfer pricing audits. Veolia Jur was selected upon their consent from 15 businesses that were picked as a result of risk assessment.

State Revenue Committee President Edvard Hovhannisyan and Veolia Jur CEO Marianna Shahinyan signed a memorandum on launching the process.

Transfer pricing regulations are in force since 2020 January 1 in Armenia, and this project is expected to become the foundation for introducing transfer pricing audit system and implementing real audits.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

 10:56, 1 February, 2021

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 1, ARMENPRESS. The rights of the citizens of the Republic of Armenia should be the basis of decisions when engaged in the process of determining the borders; it is necessary to take into account all the mistakes made in the past, Ombudsman of Armenia Arman Tatoyan said in a statement on Facebook.

“When in 1923, in order to artificially separate Armenia from Artsakh, “Red Kurdistan” was formed, the border disputes with Zangezur of the Armenian SSR intensified. One of the main concerns consistently raised by the people of Zangezur at the time was the issue of the rights of the villagers to the lands, along with the winter and summer time pastures and gardens.

For example, in October of 1925, a member of the State Committee of the Armenian SSR, A. Yerznkyan, by way of a reference stated that the areas West of the border with Meghri and Karyagino (Jabrail) were mainly winter pastures, which were actually used by the residents of the villages of Kapan and Meghri without grasslands. One of the main reasons was that without these pastures, the livestock of the villages in the referenced regions would be paralyzed.

In another case, the head of the local commission for demarcation of the borders of Zangezur "between the provinces of Kurdistan," Ya. Kochetkov, by way of an example, based his disagreement with the Azeri proposals on the village of Teghut on the fact that it is one of the districts of Shvanidzor, where the lands (gardens and pastures) are so intertwined that it will be impossible to separate them.

The same disputes over the rights of the villagers took place between the villages of Kapan and Zangelan, Khoznavar and Azerbaijan.

In 1924, 1926, 1929, and 1935 sessions of the local commission of the USSR tasked with resolving the border disputes and relevant issues, it is clear from the materials memorializing the efforts of these years, that discussions pertaining to the rights of the villagers of the USSR have repeatedly been woefully inadequate. For example, Zangezur's scarcity of "village-to-village" connections (administrative, economic, etc.) was ignored, and without an accounting of the difficulties that might arise for the rights of villagers.

Complete add careful attention was also not paid to the security of the villages (attacks by various gangs on Armenian villages from Kurdistan, thefts, etc.), which directly affected the use of pastures and other lands by the villagers (for example, when the 21 villages of the Voghji Basut River Basin were handed over to the Jabrail Province of Azerbaijan).

All of these shortcomings once again confirm that the rights of the citizens of the Republic of Armenia should be the basis of decisions when engaged in the process of determining the borders; it is necessary to take into account all the mistakes made in the past; to learn the necessary lessons from them; and to not permit violations or disregard of rights”, the Ombudsman said.

 10:57, 1 February, 2021

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 1, ARMENPRESS. Another modular camp has been installed in Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) for the Russian peacekeepers, the Russian defense ministry reports.

The camp has been built in Khachmach for the accomodation of the specialists of the Russian defense ministry.

Earlier three similar camps have been installed in Artsakh for the Russian peacekeeping contingent.

Each camp has a gym, bathhouse, a first-aid post, etc.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

COVID-19: Armenia reports 62 new cases, 281 recoveries in one day

 11:06, 1 February, 2021

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 1, ARMENPRESS. 62 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have been confirmed in Armenia in the past one day, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 167,088, the ministry of healthcare said today.

281 more patients have recovered in one day. The total number of recoveries has reached 157,800.

4 more patients have died, raising the death toll to 3084.

1473 tests were conducted in the past one day.

The number of active cases is 5435.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

Artsakh confirms 2 new cases of COVID-19 in one day

 11:36, 1 February, 2021

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 1, ARMENPRESS. 2 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Artsakh in the past 24 hours.

18 tests were conducted on January 31, the ministry of healthcare told Armenpress.

A total of 2334 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Artsakh.

The number of active cases is 25.

The death toll stands at 31.

The ministry of healthcare has again urged the citizens to follow all the rules to avoid new outbreaks and overcome the disease.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

 11:37, 1 February, 2021

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 1, ARMENPRESS. Lt. Colonel Artsrun Hovhannisyan, the spokesperson of the Armenian military during the 2020 Artsakh War, says he doesn’t rule out the possibility that he was given “false” information during the war, which he in turn conveyed to the public.

“During the war, I made around 170 posts saying we are going to win, and not that we are winning, and I’ve made equal posts saying the situation is very difficult, that this is a fight for existence and so on,” Hovhannisyan told reporters in parliament. “Because today we’ve lost, this is a very difficult emotional situation for us all, and after this we want to unconditionally find traitors, and I very much regret that they want to find traitors among the military.”

He said that the information he was conveying to the public was entirely obtained from the Miinstry of Defense, the General Staff and the Defense Army of Artsakh, at the same time he didn’t rule out the possibility that the information could’ve been false.

“I don’t rule it out, there were numerous contradictions during the war,” the Lt. Colonel said.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan