Month: June 2022

European Weightlifting Championships: Armenia’s Tatev Hakobyan wins bronze in snatch

 09:14, 3 June 2022

YEREVAN, JUNE 3, ARMENPRESS. Armenian weightlifter Tatev Hakobyan (76kg) won bronze at the European Championships underway in Albania.

Tatev Hakobyan lifted 101kg and 104kg in the snatch and received a bronze medal. In the push Hakobyan didn’t lift 119kg, 120 kg and received zero.

Earlier weightlifter Rafik Harutyunyan won gold, and Andranik Karapetyan won silver in snatch.

 09:30, 3 June 2022

YEREVAN, JUNE 3, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan congratulated school graduates on the occasion of Last Bell, the PM’s Office said.

The message reads:

“Dear graduates of public schools,

I congratulate all of you on the Last Bell.

Today you cross one of the most important boundaries of your life, you are passing from childhood to adulthood, the first steps of which are waiting for you weeks later when you should make decisions that will directly affect the essence and quality of your future life.

The talk, of course, is firstly about choosing a profession, and I hope that our beloved teachers have managed to provide you with the skills during the school years so that you can make a right decision.

And what is that right decision? Choose a profession that you like and not others. Choose a profession that will become an action for you, will motivate you to wake up as early as possible every day and go to work with pleasure and will bring benefit to others.

I believe that every person has a mission in this life. Each of you has a mission in this life and the right selection of the profession is a process of finding the mission, which is perhaps the most important decision that you are going to make in the future.

I don’t want you to go for diplomas which sometimes give nothing, I want you to go for the mission, be it a mission of a teacher, a scientist, a doctor, a military officer, a businessman, an artist, an engineer, a police officer, a judge, a cook, a builder, a locksmith, a welder, a waiter, a farmer or a carpenter.

I want you to believe in the mission of changing the world to better, changing our homeland to better, I want you also to believe in your civil mission because you are going to have a chance to make decisions on the country’s future very soon, as a voter. I believe in you and want that you also fully believe in yourself and your future. In any case, knowledge and skills are the guarantee of that future.

Respectful teachers,

I also congratulate you, and I know that many of you and your students will have tears in your eyes today. Beyond these emotions it is the responsibility, our and yours responsibility for the further fate of students who are leaving the school today.

Our homeland is passing through difficult times and I want to reaffirm that all the problems that we have, we should search for and find their solutions first of all in education field, because all these problems, without exception, have been formed at the level of primary school or general education, sometimes and often because of their absence or incompleteness.

Today our government is carrying out large-scale reforms in general education sector. These reforms are focused on the access to quality education and the emphasis on the uniqueness of the role of a teacher with all its consequences and results. During yesterday’s Cabinet meeting I announced that the qualitative reform of the education sector is one of our most important actions, and we have nothing more important to do. There is no exaggeration here.

Dear teachers, dear graduates,

Today is the last class in schools, but life gives us lessons every day, and I wish all of us high progress in that lifelong study. For the sake of our homeland, our generations and our fallen heroes”.

 10:36, 3 June 2022

YEREVAN, JUNE 3, ARMENPRESS. 62-year-old ethnic Armenian businessman Hovhannes Kamaryan was shot dead by an unknown man in downtown Moscow, a source of law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti.

Hovhannes Kamaryan was wanted by the Police of Armenia (preparing murder for profit).

The man suspected in the murder of Hovhannes Kamaryan has been arrested.

The incident occurred in Moscow’s Komsomolsky Avenue.

Criminal case has been initiated.

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 10:45, 3 June 2022

YEREVAN, JUNE 3, ARMENPRESS. The working group led by the Deputy Prime Ministers of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan dealing with the unblocking of regional communications will meet in Moscow, Russia, on June 3, the Office of Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia Mher Grigoryan said.

The last meeting of the Deputy PMs was held in December 2021.

 10:57, 3 June 2022

YEREVAN, JUNE 3, ARMENPRESS. The authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic will continue their efforts aimed at the international recognition, State Minister of Artsakh Artak Beglaryan said in an interview to RIA Novosti.

“We will continue making efforts for the international recognition of the Republic of Artsakh. After the international recognition of the independence of Artsakh it will be possible to consider also the issue of the republic joining Armenia”, the State Minister said.

He said that at this moment Azerbaijan “feels strong”, moreover, this country is receiving a military-political support by Turkey, therefore, he added, that the authorities of Artsakh will search for ways in order to “gradually”, step by step solve their issues, and later already through direct negotiations with Azerbaijan. According to him, for this Azerbaijan should be ready for peace.

The State Minister said that contacts are always being held with Armenia over the possibility of the recognition of the Republic of Artsakh.

He said it could be claimed that Armenia has actually recognized Nagorno Karabakh because there are horizontal ties between the two republics “like equal with equal”.

 11:01, 3 June 2022

YEREVAN, JUNE 3, ARMENPRESS. President of Armenia Vahagn Khachaturyan received the delegation led by Secretary-General of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Zurab Pololikashvili, the Presidential Office said.

The delegation arrived in Armenia to attend the 67th meeting of the UNWTO Commission for Europe.

In his remarks President Khachaturyan praised the fact that the relations between Armenia and the UNWTO are developing steadily. He said that tourism is a very important sector for Armenia and has been declared by the government as one of the priority areas for the development of economy.

The UNWTO Secretary-General highlighted the fact that after the COVID-19 pandemic the first meeting of the Organization is taking place in Yerevan and congratulated Armenia on being elected as member of the UNWTO Executive Council for 2021-2025, which will contribute to improving Armenia’s position and raising awareness on it in the European region.

The meeting also touched upon issues on further enriching the cooperation agenda, developing new guidelines for boosting tourism sector, etc.

It was stated that Armenia makes big efforts for the development of digital technologies, education, science and innovations, which will contribute to raising and strengthening the potential of the tourism sector.

 11:03, 3 June 2022

YEREVAN, JUNE 3, ARMENPRESS. The authorities of Artsakh think that the European Union should not participate in the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, State Minister of Artsakh Artak Beglaryan said in an interview to RIA Novosti.

“Taking into account the format of the Minsk Group Co-Chairs and the effective role of the Russian peacekeeping mission, we think that the Karabakh conflict settlement issue should not become a subject of negotiations for the European Union”, Beglaryan said.

According to him, dialogue is necessary, but it should not be part of Russia’s complex relations with the West. He reminded the OSCE Minsk Group as the main operating format for the settlement of the conflict.

He attached great importance to the fact of the presence of the Russian peacekeeping mission in the country. “We think that the peacekeeping mission should stay here for an unlimited time, as the conflict is not settled”, he said.

Artak Beglaryan said the authorities of Artsakh want to keep the presence of the Russian peacekeepers in the region as Azerbaijan is not ready for negotiations based on the three main principles proposed by the international mediators, that is the territorial integrity, the nations’ right to self-determination and the non-use of force and threat of force. “Currently there is a strong necessity for the presence of the Russian peacekeepers in Karabakh”, he said.

According to him, the settlement of the NK conflict in the foreseeable future is impossible because there is a serious contradiction in the positions of Artsakh and Azerbaijan, “they are diametrically opposed”.

He said that the main difference is that it is a matter of “prestige and ambitions” for Azerbaijan, but for the residents of Karabakh “it is a matter of life and death, their existence and historical justice”.

 11:27, 3 June 2022

YEREVAN, JUNE 3, ARMENPRESS. Painter Mushegh Grigoryan considers himself an expressionist. He believes that painting should be emotional and sincere. The painter, who creates interesting works of landscapes, still life, self-portraits, works in abstract genres, confesses that he paints by never thinking about where he will go or what artistic solutions he will come up with. But he subconsciously tries to do his best to attract art lovers.

Speaking to ARMENPRESS about art, painting, and the spiritual link between him and his father, People’s Painter of Armenia Zulum Grigoryan, Mushegh Grigoryan said: “I grew up in the studio of my father, People’s Painter of Armenia Zulum Grigoryan, in an environment of painters, actors and artists. This was very close to me, but I loved mathematics, physics and other exact science. I decided to engage in science, and I have a great respect to it till today. I wanted to become a cyberneticist, which was very interesting, I even was admitted to the postgraduate course at the Polytechnic University. I was 25 years old that time, I was writing articles and so on, but I was painting with oil paint since the age of 20. I remember, I painted several paintings that time, I wasn’t so concentrated, but it worked. Painters called them interesting.

Asked what a problem he seeks to solve with his works, the painter said: “If I say that I am putting a special task to influence the other person, it won’t be right, but I subconsciously try to create a work that will impress art-lovers. For that to happen, it is necessary to be as free as possible in emotions. If I work very concentrated, the expressionism will be lost. Each painting direction puts its task and has its own path. Expressionism as well.  Life has shown that if any work of art keeps its value for centuries, it is objectively powerful”.

The painter is living in the United States for several months.

“I travelled to the United States as a tourist, but I also had an exhibition there. My personal exhibition opened at the Creo Studio led by Taguhi Vardanyan and Tigran Baghdasaryan in Glendale in April. It was very beautiful and well organized. Several exhibitions are at a preparation stage. I am working and maybe I will display new paintings at these exhibitions”, he said, adding that when he comes back to Armenia, he will initiate a new exhibition.

Interview by Anzhela Hambardzumyan

Photos were provided by Mushegh Grigoryan

The full version of the interview is available in Armenian

 12:15, 3 June 2022

YEREVAN, JUNE 3, ARMENPRESS. The number of the Russian peacekeepers deployed in Artsakh should be increased, State Minister of Artsakh Artak Beglaryan said in an interview to RIA Novosti.

“We think that it is necessary to increase the number of Russian peacekeepers and expand their powers”, the State Minister said, citing the fact that after the latest Karabakh war the line of contact has been extended by almost 2.5 times.

The State Minister of Artsakh has also accused Azerbaijan of provoking border incidents.