Author: Andres-Papazian

RUSSIA BROKERED MEETING OF AZERI AND ARMENIAN PRESIDENTS

The Messenger
March 8 2011
Georgia

Under the sponsorship of Russian President Medvedev, Russia organised
a meeting between the Armenian and Azeri presidents Serge Sarkisian
and Ilham Aliyev in Sochi. There have been several such initiatives
since 2008, the major achievements of the meetings not being steps
towards the regulation of the Karabakh conflict but merely the
prevention of a resumption of hostilities in the region. Armenian
sources confirmed that the declaration of March 5, 2011 has the same
content as that of the November 2008 declaration. Russia~Rs position
is clear and unchanged ~V it is satisfied with a simple no peace ~V
no war situation. Similar situations exist with the current conflicts
in Moldova and Georgia, which are clearly beneficial for the Kremlin.

From: A. Papazian

ARMENIAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF AMERICA HOST FAMILY DAY

North Andover Citizen
March 8 2011
MA

Watertown – The Armenian Library and Museum of America will transform
into a children’s center for ALMA’s annual Family Day on Sunday,
March 20.

The free event will take place from 2-4 p.m. and is open to all
families looking for an afternoon packed with activities.

ALMA’s Contemporary Art Galleries will be transformed into one big
playground featuring a broad range of engaging activity stations that
teach children about the life, history and culture of the Armenian
people.

Storyteller David Elizian will bring traditional Armenian children’s
stories to life with his trunk of hats and props. Elizian, who is an
actor trained in Yerevan, has been active teaching dramatic arts in
Boston-area Armenian schools for many years.

At the Costume Corner children will have an opportunity to try
on traditional Armenian costumes. An assortment of paint, crayons,
crafts paper, colored pencils and other supplies will be provided to
those who will prefer to practice their art skills. At the end of the
program ALMA curators Susan and Gary Lind-Sinanian will teach children
and their family basic steps to traditional Armenian dances. There
will also be food and face painting.

The Armenian Library and Museum of America is at 65 Main St.,
Watertown. For information call 617-926-2562.

From: A. Papazian

Psychologist: `TV is full of garbage’

Aysor.am
Saturday,March 05

The audience is more attracted by comic TV programs, however the
programs that are broadcasted today degrade the TV audience, thinks
Karine Nalchajyan.

`The humor that is on TVs today, is in a poor condition. The jargon,
the low level of mentality and the foolish humor profane the society
especially the youth. The characters that are being presented to the
audience through the screens are simply copied by the teenagers and
the youth,’ she said.

The psychologist mentioned with sorrow that there are no restrictions
for such cases as those who can and should make restrictions like
these programs, she noticed.

`Strict bans are needed for the prevention of all of these, there
should be censoring councils who will filter the TV programs. The TV
channels are full of garbage and I hardly manage to change the
channel,’ Karine Nalchajyan mentioned and added that this is a
violation of human rights.

From: A. Papazian

Sud Ouest – ?France
2 mars 2011?

L’inclassable André Manoukian

Vous aimez Manoukian? Pas la célèbre marque de fringues, mais le
jazzman et pianiste français d’origine arménienne révélée au grand
public par son rôle de jury à “La Nouvelle star” sur M6. Le Dédé est
un artiste un peu excentrique, voire fou fou, dans l’émission de
télé-crochet, il avait par exemple lancé un drôle de défi avec les
journalistes de “Libération”, qui lui avaient valu les réprimandes de
ses comparses du jury et de la direction de la chaîne.

Musicalement, André Manoukian a lancé la carrière de Liane Foly,
originaire de Lyon, comme lui, qui fut sa compagne et sa muse. Il a
ensuite multiplié les collaborations avec tous les grands noms du jazz
avant donc de se faire connaître d ‘un (très) large public grâce à “La
Nouvelle star”.

Samedi 12 mars, André Manoukian sera à Tarnos, pour le festival Jazz
en mars, avec un répertoire axé sur la musique arménienne en ouverture
d’une soirée qui s’annonce remarquable avec le trompettiste
New-Yorkais Terell Stafford accompagné au piano de Dado Moroni
(Milan), Ã la batterie de Steve Pi (Barcelone), Ã la contrebasse de
Darryl Hall (Paris).

Pratique: le samedi 12 Ã 20 h 30 Ã Maurice-Thorez au Centre Albert
Castets. Tarif d’entrée : un soir 15 euros, pass deux soirs 25 euros.
Renseignements et réservations au 05 59 64 49 40 ou
[email protected]

From: A. Papazian

AZERBAIJANI DEPUTY: “THE OCCUPIED LANDS DO NOT POSE SUCH A THREAT TO
AZERBAIJAN AS THE RUSSIAN MILITARY BASE IN OUR TERRITORY”

AZG DAILY #39, 05-03-2011

By Hovik Afyan

“Azg” daily has already informed that Russian Defense Ministry has
decided to modernize Azerbaijani Gabala radar station.

“Russia cannot start modernizing the Gabala radar station without
Azerbaijan’s permission”, Azerbaijani deputy Fazil Mustafa told a
plenary session of Milli Meclis Tuesday.

He said there have been reports that Russia wants to modernize Gabala
radar station, it rents from Azerbaijan.

“How can a base in the territory of Azerbaijan be modernized without
country’s permission? The occupied lands do not pose such a threat to
Azerbaijan as the Russian military base in our territory. We believe
we must demand explanations”, he said.

In 2002, Russia and Azerbaijan signed an agreement according to which
Russia leased the station from Azerbaijan until 2012.

It means that a year is left to the completion of the term of the
contract, and Russia wants to prolong its military presence in
Azerbaijan by modernizing the radar station.

From: A. Papazian

Who are you to give advice

yerkir.am
17:42 – 04.03.2011

During the NA briefings head of ARF fraction Vahan Hovnannisyan turned
to the incident that took place between `Inheritance’ party members
and policemen.

Commenting on one of the policemen’s speech on TV Vahan Hovhannisyan
said, `As I understand the police have started giving lessons to the
society, what they can tell the government and what demands they can
and can’t have.

This is probably a result of not being familiar with Constitution and
Legislation, because police obligation is to keep order and not give
us instructions’.

He also added that some policemen consider their job political and
evaluate political forces.

`For example, they believe that we have rushed in making
announcements. A question rises, who are you to give advice?’

From: A. Papazian

Prosecutor General’s Office rejects motion to dismiss charges against former MP

17:38 – 04.03.11

The Prosecutor General’s Office has rejected a motion to dismiss the
criminal charges against former MP Khachatur Sukiasyan who backed the
opposition in 2008.

Sukiasyan’s lawyers Ara Zakaryan and Arthur Grigoryan earlier
requested that the prosecutor general drop the charges against their
client for the lack of evidence.

They have released a statement saying that the February 12, 2011
decision to reject the appeal contains a wrong date (August 27, 2008).

“We consider the prosecutor’s decision illegal and groundless and will
appeal it in the court in a due manner,” runs the statement.
The lawyers state the decision contains no justification or proof for
holding Sukiasyan criminally liable.

Tert.am

From: A. Papazian

On 3 March President of the Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan met
National Assembly’s `Artsakhatun’ group comprising independent members
of the parliament.

Thursday, 03 March 2011 13:23

A wide range of issues related to the activities of the
parliament, domestic and foreign policy of our country as well as the
army-society relations were discussed during the meeting.

The President considered important the role of deputies in
solving different issues the republic faces and noted the necessity of
deepening cooperation between all the factions.

Bako Sahakyan underlined that meetings in such a format
would be of a continuous nature.

From: A. Papazian

On 2 March President Bako Sahakyan convoked a working consultation
with the participation of the supreme command staff of the Defense
Army in one of the military units located in the south of the
republic.

Thursday, 03 March 2011 13:23

Issues related to the combat readiness of the army were discussed
during the consultation.

The President underlined that all the military units of
the Defense Army should always keep high fighting capacity thus
contributing to maintaining security of the republic as well as
keeping peace and stability in the whole region.

Afterwards the Head of the State visited the town of
Hadrout and discussed with head of the regional administration Valeri
Gevorgyan issues related to the socioeconomic development of the
region.

From: A. Papazian

Panorama, Armenia
March 5 2011

FIDE Grand Prix: Elina Danielian and Lilit Mkrtchian were defeated

In the tenth round of FIDE Grand Prix Armenian GM Elina Danielian was
defeated by Pia Cramling, but having scored 7,5 points, she leads the
tournament. Marie Sebag and Hampi Coneru both have scored 7 and
occupiy 2nd-3rd horizontals. Sebag ended in draw with Chiburdanidze
and Coneru defeated Lilit Mkrtchian.

Today, in the last round Elina Danielian will play with Antoinette
Stefanova and Lilit Mkrtchian with MAtha Fierro.

Pia Cramling – Elina Danielian 1:0
1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 c6 4. Nc3 e6 5. Bg5 Nbd7 6. e3 Qa5 7. cxd5
Nxd5 8. Qd2 Bb4 9. Rc1 h6 10. Bh4 b6 11. a3 Bxc3 12. bxc3 c5 13. c4
Qxd2+ 14. Nxd2 N5f6 15. Be2 Bb7 16. f3 Rc8 17. O-O O-O 18. a4 Rfd8 19.
Rfd1 Ba6 20. Bf1 cxd4 21. exd4 e5 22. Nb3 exd4 23. Rxd4 Re8 24. a5 Re3
25. Rb1 bxa5 26. Nxa5 Ra3 27. Be1 Nb6 28. Bd3 g6 29. Bb4 Ra2 30. Bf1
Rc2 31. Bd3 Ra2 32. h4 h5 33. Bf1 Rc2 34. Bd3 Ra2 35. Rd1 Ra4 36. Be1
Re8 37. Bc3 Ra3 38. Bb4 Ra4 39. Bd2 Rc8 40. Bc2 Ra3 41. Bb4 Re3 42. c5
Kg7 43. Bb3 Na8 44. Rd8 Nc7 45. c6 Rxd8 46. Rxd8 Re8 47. Rd2 Re1+ 48.
Kh2 Re3 49. Kg1 Bc8 50. Kf2 Re8 51. Bc3 Re7 52. Rd8 Be6 53. Bxe6 fxe6
54. Be5 Ne8 55. Nc4 a5 56. Rd7 Kf8 57. Bxf6 Nxf6 58. c7 Re8 59. Rd8
1:0:
Hampi Coneru – Lilit Mkrtchian 1:0
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 b5 4. Bg2 Bb7 5. O-O d5 6. a4 b4 7. c4 bxc3
8. Nxc3 a5 9. Qb3 Ba6 10. Bf4 c6 11. Rfd1 Be7 12. Ne5 O-O 13. e4 Ra7
14. exd5 Rb7 15. Qc2 cxd5 16. Bf1 Bxf1 17. Kxf1 Ne8 18. Rac1 Qb6 19.
Nd3 Qxd4 20. Nb5 Qb6 21. Be3 Qd8 22. Nc5 Rb6 23. Qd2 Nd6 24. Qxa5 Nf5
25. Bf4 Nc6 26. Qd2 Nd6 27. Nxd6 Bxd6 28. Be3 Ne5 29. b4 Qa8 30. Bf4
Nf3 31. Qd3 d4 32. Bxd6 Nxh2+ 33. Ke2 Rxd6 34. Rh1 e5 35. Rxh2 e4 36.
Qc4 Qd8 37. Nxe4 d3+ 38. Kf1 Rd4 39. Qc6 Qe7 40. Rh4 f5 41. Nc3 Rxh4
42. gxh4 Qxh4 43. Rd1 Rd8 44. Rxd3 1:0:

From: A. Papazian