Author: Andres-Papazian

Atom Egoyan sifts through sex thriller scripts in wake of ‘Chloe’

The Canadian Press

Updated: Mon. Jul. 12 2010

TORONTO – Atom Egoyan says he’s been inundated by sex thriller scripts
since directing the sensual film “Chloe,” which marked the first time
he’s helmed a movie he hasn’t written.

“I’m reading through the inevitable two sex thrillers a day I get sent
from my agent in L.A. because now I’m the guy who does that type of
(film),” Egoyan said in a recent interview to promote the release of
“Chloe” on DVD Tuesday.

“Which is just disheartening in a way, because they’re all terrible. But
I’m writing.”

“Chloe” was written by “Secretary” scribe Erin Cressida Wilson and is
based on the 2003 French film “Nathalie.”

It centres on the marital insecurities of a successful doctor, played by
Julianne Moore, who suspects her husband of cheating and hires a call
girl named Chloe, played by Amanda Seyfried, to test his fidelity.

It’s not long before a sultry relationship unfolds between the two
women, leading to a hotel-room tryst and a violent conclusion.

Salacious elements aside, Egoyan says this tale of infidelity, deceit
and obsession possesses a depth that sets it apart from other sex
thrillers.

“And yet the scripts I get from that system, like I say, are not very
interesting to me. They don’t have the psychological complexity of a
script like ‘Chloe’ did,” says Egoyan.

Still, the Toronto-based auteur, whose acclaimed body of work includes
“Exotica” and “The Sweet Hereafter,” admits there may be a prurient
appeal to “Chloe” that bodes well for its search for a new audience on
DVD.

“It’s in some ways, I think, a film that might be even better viewed in
private,” he says laughing.

“For various reasons.”

“Chloe” was met with mixed reviews when it was released earlier this
year to theatres, but was generally regarded as Egoyan’s most accessible
work yet. He ascribes that in large part to its linear storyline,
something that he says runs counter to his own instincts as a writer.

Nevertheless, he says he is attempting a more straight-ahead tact on his
latest script.

“I’m a writing a thriller, a psychological thriller. And I’m trying to
keep it more linear but we’ll see how that works,” he says.

“I’m very aware of the fact that if you want to get a certain type of
funding then the story has to be more accessible and I’m trying to
wrestle with that issue. Because I know I can make films in a certain
way and that’s been really gratifying for me but it’s also nice to
story-tell, or create a story like ‘Chloe,’ which is able to be
accessible to a wider public. The question as always is: How do you do
that without compromising your own voice?”

Amid this question, Egoyan is also working on several other projects.

They include the media installation “8 1/2 Screens” to celebrate the
opening of the TIFF Bell Lightbox, the new home of the Toronto
International Film Festival, on Sept. 12.

And he’s reworking “Salome” for the Canadian Opera Company, roughly 15
years after mounting a modernized take on the Richard Strauss opera for
the COC. The new version is being prepared for 2011.

“That production was very much concerned with the technology of that
time and the way surveillance was sort of working in society at that
moment,” says Egoyan.

“But I think that it’s been so radically altered so there’s a way of
talking about that.”

“Chloe” comes out on DVD on Tuesday.

From: A. Papazian

GENED PUSHES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE EDUCATION IN U.S. SCHOOLS
BY NANORE BARSOUMIAN

asbarez
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Despite the fact that official U.S. acknowledgement of the Armenian
Genocide is still subject to the political currents of our time,
Armenian Genocide education is included in the history curriculum of
many U.S. schools.

To encourage and facilitate genocide education and counter the
institutionalization of denialist ideologies, a number of organizations
are actively supporting genocide education inside schools. In part due
to such efforts, teachers now have at their fingertips the resources
needed to teach about instances of genocide, including the Armenian
Genocide.

The Genocide Education Project (GenEd) is one such organization that
provides teachers with the tools needed to teach about genocides,
in particular the Armenian Genocide.

The Genocide Education Project, a nonprofit organization, was founded
by Raffi Momjian and Roxanne Makasdjian in 1997 after they realized
that although California had included the teaching of the Armenian
Genocide in their educational framework in the mid 1980’s, it had
yet to be implemented.

“What we learned was that teachers were not teaching the subject
because they themselves did not know enough about the genocide and
they did not have appropriate, age-specific resources to do so,”says
Momjian, adding that the failure to teach about the Armenian Genocide
stemmed from the same challenges that face all public school teachers,
namely, lack of funding and resources.

Therefore, GenED adopted the mission “[t]o help prevent genocide by
assisting educators, students, and educational organizations with
teaching and learning about genocide and other major human rights
violations, with specific focus on the Armenian Genocide.”

The organization works with public school teachers to publish, create,
and obtain the resources needed to teach about the Armenian Genocide,
taking into consideration an educator’s preferred mode of teaching
(i.e. traditional, computer-based, through survivor testimonies).

Workshops organized by GenED aim to introduce educators to the various
resources available and the most effective methods for teaching
about genocide. These workshops are often organized together with
school districts.

The Genocide Education Project has compiled an online resource library
() with downloadable resources (many at no cost)
on the Armenian Genocide and other gross human rights violations, for
use by teachers in their classrooms. This online collection includes
lesson plans, survivor accounts, workbooks, newspaper articles,
educational posters, links to websites, videos, maps, and books. The
organization has also created an online classroom for students and an
interactive lesson plan called “Nicole’s journey,” which introduces
the Armenian Genocide through the experiences of Nicole, “an Armenian
American trying to return to the historic lands of her family.”

The biggest impediment the organization faces is the lack of funding
to implement its various programs, says Momjian. Similarly, teachers
also lack the funding and time to commit to the task.

“In this day and age, just asking teachers to spend a few hours a
school year to attend a workshop is almost an impossible request for
them to consider,” he adds.

Teaching about genocide is a challenging task because there is a
“wrong” way of approaching the topic, says Momjian. He discourages
teachers from simply focusing on names, dates, and places. Instead,
he argues that “the most important learning from such topics is why
and how such events can take place and how to identify potential
genocides that can erupt in the future and maybe even what steps one
can take to help prevent them from happening.”

Momjian notes that there is another danger–to teach about one
instance of genocide. “Irrelevant to which genocide is selected,
teaching about only one implies that it is the only circumstance
that such an event has taken place, making it seem like an anomaly,
a situation so catastrophic that it will make students believe that
it can’t really happen again.”

He notes that genocides in the 20th century have claimed more lives
than all the wars combined. “We are still today seeing a genocide
taking place in Darfur and another building ‘momentum’ in the Congo,”
adds Momjian, who believes that comparative genocide education is
the most effective method of teaching about genocide.

Just as Armenian Genocide education is finding its way into academic
institutions, so is its denial. Two cases in point are courses offered
and dissertations written at the University of Utah, which have at
their core denial of the Armenian Genocide; and Turkish lobby efforts
against the inclusion of the genocide in U.S. textbooks.

Roxanne Makasdjian, co-founder of GenED, notes that there still are
world history textbooks that do not mention the Armenian Genocide. One
of the textbooks she encountered, World History (published by McDougal
Littell, 1999), included “a very denialist/revisionist version of
the events,” she says. Appearing in a sidebar on p. 365, titled
“Spotlight On: The Armenian Massacre,” the text read:

“One group that suffered greatly for its independence efforts was
the Armenians. By the 1880â~@²s, the roughly 2.5 million Christian
Armenians in the Ottoman Empire had begun to demand their freedom. As
a result, relations between the group and its Turkish rulers grew
strained.

“Throughout the 1890s, Turkish troops killed tens of thousands of
Armenians. When World War 1 erupted in 1914, the Armenians pledged
their support to the Turks’ enemies. In response, the Turkish
government deported nearly 2 million Armenians. Along the way, more
than 600,000 died of starvation or were killed by Turkish soldiers.”

“The Turkish lobby fought hard against California’s inclusion of the
Armenian Genocide in its state curriculum [in 1985] and continues to
protest when additional bills have been initiated,” says Makasdjian.

The Turkish lobby has protested in other states, as well. “In each
case, language was watered down in response to the Turkish protests.”

Many scholars view genocide denial as a crime in itself. Psychologist
and historian Israel Charny once wrote that “Denials of known
events of genocide must be treated as acts of bitter and malevolent
psychological aggression, certainly against the victims, but really
against all of human society, for such denials literally celebrate
genocidal violence and in the process suggestively call for renewed
massacres–of the same people or of others.”

According to Gregory H. Stanton, the president of Genocide Watch and
former president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars,
denial is the eighth and final stage of genocide.

Currently, 11 states require the teaching of the Armenian Genocide in
schools through legislative mandates. Those states are California,
Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey,
New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Virginia.

Momjian argues that the requirement does not mean much by itself.

“Requiring a specific subject be taught does not by itself mean it
will be implemented. States must fund such efforts and take specific
action to reach out to teachers to help them meet the requirements…

That is not being done in any form of efficiency or effectiveness
these days.” However he believes that by adopting such requirements
states will be encouraging schools to work with organizations like the
Genocide Education Project. He also notes that the organization does
work with teachers from states that do not have such requirements;
and “[those teachers]do not care that much if it is required in their
state that the Genocide be taught or not. We can and will continue
working with them to help them.”

A July 8 press release announced the establishment of the GenED Rhode
Island chapter through the efforts of two volunteers, Pauline Getzoyan
and Esther Kalajian. Their aim is to introduce and encourage Armenian
Genocide education in Rhode Island high schools.

The chapter’s first task was to draft a proposal, together with the
national office, to hold a workshop at the Rhode Island Department
of Education’s annual Summer Civics Institute, sponsored by the
Rhode Island Council for the Humanities. The proposal was accepted,
and on June 29 over 200 Rhode Island teachers attended the workshop,
which was led by Sarah Cohan (the education director for the national
office), Getzoyan, and Kalajian.

The chapter and national office will next work on creating lesson
plans about the Armenian Genocide based on the experiences of survivors
and their descendents who settled in Rhode Island.

To support or learn more about the Genocide Education Project,
visit

From: A. Papazian

ARMENIA, RUSSIA DISCUSS CLOSER DEFENSE INDUSTRY TIES

asbarez
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
YEREVAN

Armenia and Russia plan to significantly boost cooperation between
their defense industries within the framework of a Russian-led military
alliance of seven ex-Soviet states, top security officials from the
two countries said after talks in Yerevan on Tuesday.

Nikolay Bordyuzha, the secretary general of the Collective Security
Treaty Organization, said the alliance has already launched a “pilot
project” aimed at integrating Armenian defense enterprises into
Russia’s military-industrial complex.

“Military-industrial cooperation with Armenia is one of the priority
areas of CSTO activities,” the Regnum news agency quoted Bordyuzha
as telling journalists. He said “practical steps” already taken in
that direction will bear fruit soon.

“We will soon be monitoring the realization of agreements that were
reached today,” said Konstantin Biryulin, the deputy head of Russia’s
Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation with foreign states.

According to Artur Baghdasarian, the secretary of Armenia’s National
Security Council, the agreements envisage, among other things, the
establishment of Russian-Armenian defense joint ventures. He did
not elaborate.

The three men spoke at a joint news conference after two days of
negotiations that also involved Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian.

Bordyuzha and Biryulin visited four Armenian plants manufacturing
weapons and other military equipment on Monday.

Biryulin and other officials from his agency already visited Armenia
last December for a session of a Russian-Armenian inter-governmental
commission on bilateral military-technical cooperation. Under an
agreement signed during the meeting, Russia and Armenia will work
together in exporting arms and ammunition to third countries.

The military alliance with Russia and, in particular, the presence of
Russian troops on Armenian soil has been a key element of Armenia’s
national security doctrine since independence. Armenia has been
entitled to receiving Russian weapons at cut-down prices or even free
of charge also because of its membership in the CSTO.

“In my opinion, the possibility of purchasing Russian weapons is
the main privilege given to CSTO members states within the framework
of military-industrial cooperation,” Ohanian told the Interfax news
agency on Tuesday. “I will not hide the fact that we pin big hopes
on this sphere of activity.”

From: A. Papazian

ALIYEV IS CONCERNED TO PRESERVE THE FLOW OF PETRODOLLARS
Karine Ter-Sahakyan / PanARMENIAN News

PanARMENIAN.Net
July 16, 2010

At the Alma-Ata meeting there may be discussed the issue of returning
the territories claimed especially by the Armenian and not the
Azerbaijani side.

It is already becoming a tradition in Azerbaijan to make inadequate
statements before every meeting between the foreign ministers or the
presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, with the Baku wise men believing
they would make Armenia, the OSCE Minsk Group and the world community
“return the Azerbaijani native lands”. By the way, these statements
are issued while opening just another monument to Heydar Aliyev in
some village or, at best, in a regional center in Azerbaijan.

It may seem to a looker-on that Aliyev Jr. is concerned exclusively
about his country, his people, and the like. But, in fact, he’s nothing
to do with either Karabakh or the Azeri people, who still suffer
from the threat of floods. What worries him most is the petrodollars,
which have become a real disaster for the country.

Aliyev’s mood was also shattered by the Armenians, who quite
justly accused him of occupying the regions of Shahumyan, Getashen
and Martunashen. By the way, unlike the Baku propaganda, Armenia
and Nagorno-Karabakh blame quite substantiated. And so, it may so
happen that at the Alma-Ata meeting there is discussed the issue of
returning the territories claimed especially by the Armenian and not
the Azerbaijani side.

By and large, Ilham Aliyev could be pitied, but for one circumstance.

Until recently all of his bellicose statements were perceived
inertly by the world community, which on the one hand makes them
quite nonsensical, on the other gives Aliyev the false sense of
self-importance. However, certain sources inform that cold water was
poured on Aliyev in St. Petersburg and it’s quite possible that the
Azeri foreign minister will share his president’s fate at the slated
meeting in Alma-Ata. After the summit of the OSCE Ministerial Cpuncil
things may take two possible turns, both fatal for Aliyev. In the
first case Aliyev launches a war, which lingers about a week. During
this time all the channels of petrodollars are closed. There are also
terrorist acts possible at the pipeline Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan, which the
Kurds will organize, taking advantage of the general mess. The world
community, unengaged in football, will quickly take control of the
situation and introduce order. Meanwhile Aliyev will lose another 20%
of territories, if not more. Turkey will not interfere, because of her
obligations before NATO. Besides, the internal political situation
in Turkey gives little chance of supporting someone of indefinite
relation to her. The second scenario is much shorter: Baku agrees
to the St. Petersburg principles, where obviously the issue of the
Nagorno-Karabakh status and that of three Armenian regions dominates.

In such turn of events the unaccomplished sultan will have to flee
the country. In a word, both variants are disastrous for Azerbaijan.

As for Armenia, she has nothing to do here. Nagorno-Karabakh is an
independent country and makes decisions that proceed from her own
security. Let us add that recognition or non-recognition of your
independence by this or that country has no say in anything, like
the borders. The borders are decided by two countries based on mutual
agreements. Of course, Armenia can recognize the independence of NKR,
but she will do it only after Baku.

From: A. Papazian

Armenian National Committee of America
1711 N Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Tel. (202) 775-1918
Fax. (202) 775-5648
[email protected]
Internet

PRESS RELEASE

July 21, 2010
Contact: Elizabeth S. Chouldjian
Tel: (202) 775-1918

CAPITOL HILL SCREENING OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE FILM “AGHET” DRAWS
STANDING ROOM ONLY CROWD

— Rep. Schiff Hosts Washington, DC Premiere

WASHINGTON, DC – A standing room only crowd of legislators, staff
and community activists applauded the Capitol Hill screening of
“AGHET: A GENOCIDE,” a powerful documentary by German filmmaker
Eric Friedler depicting Ottoman Turkey’s annihilation of 1.5
million Armenians from 1915 to 1923 and calling attention to the
costs of the current Turkish government’s ongoing international
campaign of genocide denial, reported the Armenian National
Committee of America (ANCA).

Congressional Armenian Genocide Resolution author Adam Schiff (D-
CA), who hosted screening, offered poignant opening remarks
thanking film Producer Katarina Trebitsch and Friedler for his
“tenacity and his wonderful work.” He went on to note that the
Turkish Embassy had, in the days leading up to the documentary’s
first-time showing on Capitol Hill, sent him a letter objecting to
the screening. The California legislator was forceful in his
rebuke of foreign pressure to block Congressional discussion of the
Armenian Genocide. “Unfortunately for the Turkish Ambassador and
his government, the infamous Section 301 of the Turkish penal code,
which makes it a crime to insult Turkishness, does not apply here,
and we are free to speak the truth and admire the work of others
like Mr. Friedler, who have stood up to the threats, the bullying,
and the intimidation,” explained Rep. Schiff.

Characterizing ‘Aghet’ as an “important movie,” Rep. Brad Sherman
(D-CA) called special attention to its focus on the dispatches of
the German government during the Genocide, highlighting the vastly
different ways the German government and the Turkish government
have dealt with their respective legacies of genocide. “One is the
approach taken by the German government, acknowledging the
Holocaust and then trying to build on that and trying to make sure
that you do not see genocides in the future,” explained Rep.
Sherman. “The other extreme we see is the actions of the Turkish
government, illustrating that genocide denial is the last step of
the genocide, when after trying to extinguish a people you try to
extinguish the memory of that terrible act. And it is also the
first step in the next genocide, the one thing that links the
Armenian Genocide and Turkey on the one hand and the Germany on the
other is the fact that Adolf Hitler was famously able to convince
his cohorts that they could get away with genocide, for after all
the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman Turks, have been able to do so.”

Congressional Armenian Caucus Co-Chairman Frank Pallone (D-NJ), in
his remarks, noted the critical role of documentaries like “Aghet”
in educating Congress about the Armenian Genocide. “I think this is
really important because obviously we will continue to fight to get
the [Armenian] Genocide resolution passed and this is an important
part of that effort,” explained Pallone. He went on to urge
continued grassroots efforts to end U.S. complicity in Turkey’s
genocide denial. “You are out there endorsing candidates – for
President, for Congress, for Senate, whatever it is. That is what
is going to make the difference,” concluded Pallone.

The filmmaker, Eric Friedler, with modesty, noted: “I do not know
if my film ‘Aghet’ will have any impact on the way the American
Congress will deal with the issue of Armenian Genocide in future.
It is more than amazing and absolutely unusual that a German
documentary might be considered to have any meaning to a political
decision-making process. I feel very honored to be invited to
Washington and that ‘Aghet’ is seen by members of the Congress.”

The screening was followed by a robust 90-minute panel discussion,
sponsored by the Armenian National Committee of America, featuring
the director, Eric Friedler, former U.S. Ambassador to Armenia,
John Evans, SCREAMERS Director Carla Garapedian, and Vartkes
Yeghiayan, Director of the Center for Armenian Remembrance. The
discussion was moderated by ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian.

“Tonight’s Capitol Hill premiere of Aghet offered Members of
Congress and their staffs an excellent opportunity to explore the
costs and consequences of Turkey’s ongoing denial of the Armenian
Genocide,” said Hamparian. “We want to say a special thank you to
Congressman Schiff for hosting this historic screening and are, of
course, deeply appreciative of Eric Friedler’s compelling
contribution to America’s civic discourse on this vital subject.
We are greatly pleased that Ambassador John Evans, Carla
Garapedian, and Vartkes Yeghiayan were able to join in making the
panel discussion such a success. We look forward, in the days and
weeks ahead, to this powerful film’s ongoing impact on our nation’s
progress toward full and formal condemnation of this crime against
all humanity.”

Among those attending the screening were the Deputy Chief of
Mission of the Embassy of Armenia, Varuzhan Nersessian, who was
joined by a large contingent of Armenian Embassy officials; Robert
Avetisyan, the Representative of the Nagorno Karabagh Republic in
Washington, DC; Appo Jabarian, Executive Publisher and Managing
Editor of USA Armenian Life Magazine, and; Donald Wilson Bush, an
eighth generation Woodrow Wilson family descendant. The event may
have also served as an educational experience for a group of
Turkish Americans serving as interns on Capitol Hill. One of these
interns asked a question of the panel, and several others remained
at the event, speaking to the panelists and audience members, long
after the program had ended.

AGHET: A GENOCIDE is a powerful documentary which debuted on German
public television (NDR) in April, 2010, depicting the annihilation
of 1.5 million Armenians from 1915-1923 and the effects of the
Turkish Government’s international campaign of genocide denial on
international policy. Award-winning director Eric Friedler
assembles an impeccable cast, who bring to life the original texts
of German and U.S. diplomatic dispatches and eyewitness accounts,
interspersed with never-before-seen footage of the Genocide and its
political aftermath. The film, applauded by Nobel Prize laureate
Gunter Grass, has sparked debate throughout Europe. It is now
being showcased around the world on television, and in major film
festivals.

For more information about the film, read an extensive review by
Der Spiegel Magazine at:
,1518,687449,00.html

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From: A. Papazian

SAAKASHVILI WILLING TO REPEAT THE HISTORY OF THE 20S
Karine Ter-Sahakyan

PanARMENIAN.Net
July 20, 2010

On the whole, Azerbaijan and Georgia had better form a confederation
with Turkey, both of them disappearing in this pot and their presidents
becoming governors of provinces.

Relations between Georgia and Azerbaijan step out of the line of
simple cooperation, that is why the countries must join into a
confederation, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili declared at a
joint press conference with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev
in Batumi. Let’s try to find out what exactly Saakashvili meant,
meanwhile keeping in mind that in every joke there is a grain of…

joke. And what remains is the truth.

When the president of any country makes this kind of statements,
he must have something for an object. Saakashvili’s objectives can
be various – from normalization of Georgian-Russian relations and
regulation of the Armenian question in Javakhk to the Georgia’s
joining the EU and NATO. Actually Ilham Aliyev will not help him
with the latter, just on the contrary. But most likely he will lend a
hand when it comes to Georgian-Russian relations. However, if Aliyev
starts to share the “secrets” of conflict settlement with Saakashvili,
together with South Ossetia and Abkhazia the Georgian president will
get just another trouble in the form of Javakhk. Aliyev treated his
Georgian colleague’s suggestion quite reservedly, as he needs Georgia
as a transit route. Unreliable, suggestible, but still providing the
transit of Baku oil to Turkey. On the whole, Azerbaijan and Georgia
had better form a confederation with Turkey, both of them disappearing
in this pot and their presidents becoming governors of provinces.

Armenia doesn’t like this scenario at all, but, nevertheless, she
must be ready for it, too.

But let us not jump the gun, especially because Turkey has her own
problems despite Premier Erdogan’s enthusiastic assurances that “the
country has taken the right and democratic route, and serves as a
bridge between the East and the West.” We have already discussed the
foreign policy of “zero problems with the neighbours”. By the way,
Turkey used to be a bridge between the East and the West, but it fell
to pieces when the Islamists took power.

But let us revert to the Georgian President’s statement. Most likely it
was just another non-binding declaration, called to put up a show of
brotherhood with Azerbaijan. It would be wrong to say that Georgia is
in need of a neighbor, simply Baku is doing its best to instill that
feeling in her. Aliyev’s intentions are obvious: if things go wrong
(i.e. in case there breaks out a war in Karabakh), Georgia will help
him. But hardly will his calculations prove to be accurate.

Saakashvili will never challenge the world community, all the more
so the USA and France, which are against any military action on the
part of Azerbaijan.

In conclusion, let us recall the history. On 12 March 1922, the
conference of CEC representatives of the Azerbaijan SSR, Armenian SSR
and Georgian SSR approved in Tbilisi the Treaty on Establishing the
Federal Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of Transcaucasia (FUSSRT).

On 13 December 1922, the 1st Transcaucasia Congress of Soviets reformed
the FUSSRT into the Transcaucasian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic
(TSFSR), meanwhile maintaining independence of the republics that
formed part of it. The Congress approved the Constitution of TSFSR,
formed the Transcaucasian CEC and Government – the Council of People’s
Commissars of TSFSR. On 30 December 1922, TSFSR joined up the RSFSR,
USSR and BSSR into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Consistent with the USSR Constitution of 1936, the Azerbaijan SSR,
Armenian SSR and the Georgian SSR joined the USSR as independent
Soviet republics. TSFSR was abolished.

From: A. Papazian

Cléo completes the job for Partizan
Published: Wednesday 21 July 2010,
FC Pyunik 0-1 FK Partizan (agg: 1-4)
Cléo’s goal on the stroke of half-time rubber-stamped a third
qualifying round tie against HJK Helsinki for the Serbian champions.

by Khachik Chakhoyan

Brazilian striker Cléo scored on the stroke of half-time to give FK
Partizan victory against FC Pyunik and rubber-stamp a 4-1 aggregate
triumph over the Armenian titleholders.
The Serbian champions had laid the platform for a third qualifying
round contest against HJK Helsinki with a 3-1 win in Belgrade last week.
Cléo completed the scoring in that opening instalment and banished any
lingering doubts of the overall outcome with a well-taken finish four
minutes into first-half added time in Yerevan.
Nemanja TomiÄ=87 had got the ball rolling in the first leg and it was
he who was first to go close in the return, Artur Lesko coming to
Pyunik’s rescue after just three minutes. Pyunik had chances of their
own to inject a glimmer of life back into the tie, however, Marcos
Pizzelli spurning the most presentable when failing to finish from
inside the penalty area after 18 minutes.
Cléo was far more clinical when he collected Radosav PetroviÄ=87’s
precise pass and fired past Lesko via the crossbar. The hosts again
went close to registering seven minutes after the interval, but Gevorg
Ghazaryan was denied by Partizan defender Ivan StevanoviÄ=87. Cléo
nearly added his third of the tie late on but Partizan’s work was
already done.

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From: A. Papazian

WASHINGTON CAN ALWAYS RESORT TO SCENARIO OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RECOGNITION

PanARMENIAN.Net
July 21, 2010 – 16:17 AMT 11:17 GMT

Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, historian Hayk
Demoyan said that the neo-Ottomanism policy is a wrong start for
Turkey.

If Turkey turns its back upon the West, the western countries will
apply a stick policy towards Ankara, Demoyan told a press conference
in Yerevan.

“Washington can always resort to the scenario of the Armenian Genocide
recognition. It depends on further developments around the US-Turkish
relations,” concluded Hayk Demoyan.

From: A. Papazian

Office of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Lisa Kalustian, Chief Deputy Director
300 South Spring Street, Suite 16701
Los Angeles, CA 90013
(213)897-0322
FAX (213)897-0319
[email protected]

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Gov. Schwarzenegger Announces Appointments

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the following appointments:

Frank Zerunyan, 50, of Rolling Hills Estates, has been reappointed to
the Medical Board of California, where he has served as a member since
2006 and is currently vice president. He has served as principle of P3
Solutions Group since April 2010, principle of California P3
Infrastructure Group since 2009 and chief executive officer and
general counsel of Public-Private Community Development since
2005. Zerunyan has also been an adjunct associate professor at
University of Southern California, School of Policy Planning and
Development since 2008. Previously, he was partner for the law firm of
Sulmeyer Kupetz from 1995 to 2005 and Yacoubian & Zerunyan from 1989
to 1995. Zerunyan worked as senior vice president of law and finance
for International Marketing Alliance from 1985 to 1989. He has served
as a council member for the city of Rolling Hills Estates since 2003
and was mayor from 2007 to 2008. Zerunyan is a member of the Palos
Verdes Peninsula Transit Authority, Los Angeles County Business
Technology Center, Armenian National Committee of America and Zerunyan
Center for Business, Entrepreneurship and Community Development at the
Palos Verdes Peninsula Library. This position requires Senate
confirmation and the compensation is $100 per diem. Zerunyan is a
Republican.

From: A. Papazian

YEGHISHE TANASHYAN: BELATED TOURISM POLICY WON’T PRESERVE TSAKHKADZOR’S REPUTATION AS TOURIST CENTER

PanARMENIAN.Net
July 21, 2010 – 16:22 AMT 11:22 GMT

Even belated implementation of tourism policy won’t be able to preserve
Tsakhkadzor’s reputation as tourist center, according to deputy head
of Armenian Travel Agencies Union Yeghishe Tanashyan.

At news conference in Yerevan, he cited incorrect price policy as
the reason behind tourism recession in Tsakhkadzor.

He emphasized the necessity of governmental support in the development
of tourism in Armenia. “Tatev and Jermuk programs will promote the
development of tourism, however, fulfilling only 15% of Armenian
tourism potential,” deputy head of Armenian Travel Agencies Union
stated.

Yeghishe Tanashyan suggested development of alternative types of
tourism (extreme tourism) and price decrease for air tickets as the
means to boost tourist inflow in Armenia.

From: A. Papazian