Author: Andres-Papazian

PASADENA’S ARMENIANS SPLIT ON RIVAL GENOCIDE REMEMBRANCES, MEMORIAL PARK MONUMENT

Pasadena Star-News, CA
April 2 2013

By Brenda Gazzar, Staff Writer

PASADENA — Divided Armenian community members are promoting two
rival Armenian genocide anniversary ceremonies in the city on April
24 and two competing ideas for a genocide monument to be erected in
Memorial Park.

The Pasadena chapter of the Armenian National Committee is organizing
a genocide anniversary ceremony at City Hall at 10 a.m. on April 24.

At the exact same time the Pasadena-based Armenian Community Coalition,
which in past years has held its remembrance ceremony at City Hall,
will commemorate the genocide with another ceremony at Memorial Park.

City officials said it’s the first time that there have been two
conflicting Armenian genocide anniversary events.

“It’s unfortunate that there appears to be competing events and, as
an outsider that is sensitive to what the event commemorates, I would
hope the groups can consolidate and join forces to commemorate it,”
Councilman Terry Tornek said. “If there’s a dispute over the monument,
that’s even worse. I would hope the community could pull together on
these important issues. ”

Mayor Bill Bogaard said it would be preferable to have one ceremony
since two simultaneous events could reduce attendance.

Neither he nor Tornek will be in town that day.

>>From 1915 through 1923 as many as 1.5 million Armenians were slain
by the Ottoman Turks in what was then the Ottoman Empire. For more
than 30 years, the City Council has issued

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an annual proclamation commemorating the Armenian genocide on April 24,

Shoghig Yepremian, chairwoman of the Armenian National Committee’s
Pasadena chapter, said her organization used to go in front of the
City Council every year to commemorate the anniversary but decided
this year to host a ceremony in front of City Hall.

“We have a larger community,” she said.

Chatchik “Chris” Chahinian, chairman of the Armenian Community
Coalition, said his group started the City Hall commemoration and
has done it there for the past three years.

“It’s very disappointing; this is not something that should happen,”
he said. “I believe the group that intends to do this copied our
tradition. It’s going to hurt our cause and our community. ”

Now there are also two competing plans for a genocide monument to
be erected in Memorial Park in time for the 100th anniversary of the
tragedy in 2015.

Chahinian’s Armenian Community Coalition could be going head-to-head
with former Pasadena mayor Bill Paparian’s Pasadena Armenian Genocide
Memorial Committee (PAGMC).

Both groups have been in contact with the city about their ideas for
a privately funded monument, and both say they are finalizing their
designs, Art Center College of Design student Catherine Menard was
selected by the PAGMC for its project; Vahram Hovagimyan has been
chosen to design the planned ACC monument.

Chahinian, a former Pasadena City Council candidate, first announced
the idea for a genocide monument in 2011; Paparian, who did not respond
to multiple requests for comment, announced the registration of his
PAGMC committee last year.

“We started this project; we felt we should finish this project,” said
Chahinian, who says his coalition is made up of at least 10 different
Armenian groups. “(PAGMC) are trying to hijack this project. I don’t
know what their interest is. ”

Yepremian, who is a PAGMC board member, said she believes that group
is on the right track.

“I’m confident with the process, with the committee, with the board
members involved,” she said. “It truly represents a grass-roots effort
and our project is an excellent project for Memorial Park. ”

Among PAGMC’s listed board members are former Assemblyman Anthony
Portantino and former police Chief Bernard Melekian.

Councilman Gene Masuda tried unsuccessfully last year to get the
groups to resolve any differences, according to all sides.

Bogaard said he favors a proposal “formulated by a broad representative
group in the community.”

“Mr. Chahinian is active in the community and if he were opposed to
a proposal emanating from the other group, it would be impractical
for staff to reach a conclusion about what to recommend and it would
be difficult to go forward,” Bogaard said.

From: A. Papazian

AUTHOR ON TRAIL OF FAMED ALTON CYCLIST

The Telegraph (Alton, Illinios)
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News
April 1, 2013 Monday

by Kathie Bassett, The Telegraph, Alton, Ill.

April 01–ALTON — Standing in front of a quaint Middletown Victorian
home, it’s hard to imagine that an intrepid adventurer who was
celebrated worldwide for his bravery grew up there.

But in the last decade of the 19th century and first half of the 20th,
bicyclist Will Sachtleben’s “daring deeds” as an early globe-trotting
journalist made him a “popular hero in Alton, known to everyone,” wrote
Paul Cousley in 1952, following a surprise visit to the then-editor
of the Alton Evening Telegraph.

The son of a wealthy Alton clothier, Sachtleben lived with his family
in the home on the corner of Seventh and Langdon before he entered
Smith Academy in St. Louis and then Washington University, where he
met his close friend and future cycling partner Thomas Allen Jr. of
Kirkwood, Mo.

Sachtleben and Allen made national headlines in 1893 when they became
the first men to bike 18,000 miles across Europe, Asia and North
America, circling the globe on “safety” bicycles, prototypes of the
modern machine that succeeded the older-style “high-wheeler.”

Author David V. Herlihy first chronicled Sachtleben and Allen’s
harrowing later adventure to find fellow cyclist Frank Lenz in
“The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His
Mysterious Disappearance,” published in 2010. Hired as a correspondent
for “Outing” magazine, Lenz had suddenly vanished near a Turkish
river in 1894 amid a wave of Armenian massacres.

“I’ve always had an interest in the Sachtleben and Allen tour,” said
Herlihy, who has also authored “Bicycle: The History.” “But when I
started out to write the book on Lenz, I didn’t appreciate how big
a role Sachtleben would have in the story.”

In the book, Herlihy weaves together diaries, letters, newspaper
clippings and witness testimonies to tell the tale of two separate
journeys — that of Lenz’s solo trip that took him from the United
States through Japan, China, Burma, India and Persia before becoming
lost in Turkey and of Sachtleben’s unsuccessful quest to find him.

Herlihy, who lives in Boston, stopped in Alton Friday to share the
rare nitrite negative images taken by Sachtleben on an early Kodak No.

2 camera on his history-making 1890-1893 trek.

On their first trip, the pair hoped to make names for themselves as
journalists by sending photos and reports to London’s popular weekly
Penny Illustrated Paper, but the paper’s underwriting was withdrawn
about the time they reached Athens. With sufficient financial support
still in place, the cyclists resolved to forge ahead.

Many of these photos, along with Sachtleben’s bicycle and camera,
are now in the collection of the UCLA Library.

With these 400-plus images now digitized, Herlihy is collaborating
on the organization of an exhibit of the photos taken by Sachtleben,
primarily between Athens and Tashkent in Uzbekistan. Herlihy hopes
that the exhibit will tour the country, stopping in Alton if possible.

“I think Sachtleben had a good sense of where technology was heading
— you see that both with the bike and the camera,” Herlihy said. “He
recognized that the new ‘safety’ bicycle (with a lighter frame and
pneumatic wheels) was going to alter the world and so was the new
portable Kodak camera that used film instead of plates, making it
ideal for cycling.”

Images include the adventuresome duo posing with their bicycles atop
toppled Greek columns on the Acropolis, looking out over vast desolate
plains and visiting crowded marketplaces.

To prepare for their trip, Herlihy said the pair had to enlist the
help of another native Illinoisan, Robert Todd Lincoln, who was then
serving as the American minister in London.

When the duo informed Lincoln of their intentions, he pointedly
asked them: “Do your fathers know what you’re up to?” The exasperated
minister relented and finally gave them a letter of introduction to
the Chinese minister requesting his cooperation on their travels,
but telling the pair he would “rather not have written it.”

At times needing to hire bodyguards to make the ride safely, the men
were rewarded for their travails when they arrived back in the United
States, becoming instant celebrities. Their newfound fame prompted
them to write a book about their daring adventures, “Across Asia on
a Bicycle: The Journey of Two American Students from Constantinople
to Peking,” republished in 2003.

After Sachtleben returned home to Alton, he gave talks for a while
before being asked to join an expedition to the North Pole. But
instead of a return to adventure, he pulled out of the trip at the
last minute out of respect for his fiancee’s wish to settle down.

After marrying, Sachtleben relocated to Houston, where he managed
the Majestic Theater for many years.

“Sachtleben was a brave and resourceful man full of noble intentions,”
Herlihy said. “(Like Lenz), he too deserved a better fate.”

And perhaps through the exhibit, he will receive just that.

From: A. Papazian

TURKEY CANCELS THE FIRST REGULAR VAN-YEREVAN-VAN FLIGHT FOLLOWING FIERCE OPPOSITION FROM AZERBAIJAN

ARMINFO
Tuesday, April 2, 19:38

Turkey has canceled the first ever scheduled flights to Armenia,
days before the first plane was due to take off, officials have said,
following fierce opposition from Turkey’s ally and energy partner
Azerbaijan, Today’s Zaman reports.

The source says that the twice-weekly flights between Turkey’s eastern
city of Van and the Armenian capital Yerevan were due to begin on
April 3 and, encouraged by a US push for rapprochement, were meant to
boost bilateral tourism and trade. But with just over a week until
the first flight, and with tickets already on sale, Turkey’s civil
aviation authority stepped in and ordered the flights to be suspended.

Officials at Turkey’s Transportation Ministry confirmed the flights
had been stopped but declined to give a reason. BoraJet, the private
Turkish carrier set to fly the 45-minute route, has also declined
to comment on the stoppage. One BoraJet official twice denied the
Van-Yerevan flights had ever been planned, even though the route was
still available as a booking option on the firm’s website on Monday.

Narekavank Tour, a Yerevan-based travel agency which has spent the
last three years organizing the flights together with a Turkish travel
agency in Van, said the reason was political. “The organizers were
keen on staying away from politics. It is very sad and discouraging
that Turkish authorities were not able to do the same and finally
let politics interfere with this promising initiative,” it said in
a statement.

Asked if he thought this was due to specific pressure from Azerbaijan,
Armen Hovhannisyan, co-founder of Narekavank Tour, said: “Of course,
it is part of the whole formula, and maybe they have been working
behind the scenes.”

Azerbaijan voiced fierce opposition to the flights and last week
Ali Hasanov, a senior official at the president’s office in Baku,
said they amounted to support for “the occupant country” and only
prolonged the “occupation.”

While commenting on Azerbaijani media reports on launching of Yerevan-
Van flight, Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Ismayil Alper Coskun said
that the Turkish President, Prime Minister, officials and the Speaker
of the Parliament had clearly announced their position on this issue.

“Flights from Yerevan to Turkey are operated by private companies. As
media report, these are commercial flights. Private companies have
no problems in Turkey in carrying out these activities”. “No country
supports Azerbaijan’s position on Nagorno Karabakh conflict more than
Turkey, which has closed its borders with Armenia. I ask media also to
highlight Turkey’s positive steps, not to confuse the people. There
is nothing to worry. Turkey’s position on Karabakh problem, Armenia
has not changed,” he said.

Today’s Zaman also says that while Armenia’s national carrier, Armavia,
already operates flights to Istanbul and the coastal city of Antalya,
the BoraJet flights would have been the first by a Turkish carrier
to Armenia, and would have given Armenians easier access to an area
of Turkey they refer to as their “historical homeland”. The source
stresses that once home to hundreds of thousands of Armenians,
eastern Turkey is scattered with ancient Armenian historic sites,
including a newly-restored medieval church on the small island of
Akdamar in Lake Van. The city of Van had large Armenian population
prior to World War I.

From: A. Papazian

NO HEADACHE: ONLY GOOD NEWS

08:35 PM | TODAY | SOCIAL

Exactly 11 years ago this day-April 2, “A1 +” TV channel was deprived
of the blue screen and it is not a secret for anyone who ordered it.

During the competition of frequencies purely information-oriented
“A1 +” was defeated. The winner was “Sharm” company specialized in
entertainment programs that promised to bring another culture to
TV world.

By April 2, 2002 “A1 +” provided broadcast to those opposition members,
protesters, civil activists raising social problems who had been
rejected by another TV channels.

“A1 +” was the first to inform the public that in September, 2001
in “Aragast” cafe a murder was committed with the participation of
Robert Kocharyan’s bodyguards. The experts are convinced that “A1 +”
was never forgiven for this. Besides, according to the experts, with
the banning of the air of “A1 +” Robert Kocharyan was going to take
the chair of RA president in 2003 again without excessive noise and
unnecessary headache.

Robert Kocharyan who had occupied RA president position then said in
those days: “I like “A1 +” news program, but it does not mean that
“A 1 +” company should be out of the competition, the competition
should be for all of us”.

Robert Kocharyan suggested not to raise alarm since he did not have
anything against media sphere, the banning of air of “A1 +” had been
done according to the law.

Vardan Harutyunyan who was the defender of the rights of “A1 +” during
one of the civil protest actions announced: “I want to remind you that
during fascist Germany, Jews were also massacred in the framework of
the law”.

During the next days of “A1+” the international structures made a
statement that in Armenia freedom of speech was limited. 14 news
organizations demanded Robert Kocharyan to return the airtime to
“A1 +” however 17 of them mentioned that without “A1 +” in Armenia
would not exist threat of violation of freedom of speech.

After the first competition of frequency “A1+” made 13 attempts of
air return. Anyway in all cases TV and Radio National Commission
head Gregory Amalyan rejected the appeals of “A1 +” even after
the declaration of the European Court in 2008 that according to
the European Convention the banning the broadcast of “A1 +” was a
violation of freedom of speech in Armenia.

Today “A1 +” has a right of 20 minute airtime on one of the TV
channels.

Soon Gregory Amalyan competencies’ deadline will be completed in TV and
Radio National Commission, however it is a fact that in the official
website of “Sharm” holding there is not even a line to describe
that this organization had a TV channel with the name of “Center” ,
which 11 years ago was promising and assuring to create appropriate
TV cahnnel for 21st century citizen of the Republic of Armenia

From: A. Papazian

THE VOICE OF RUSSIA: IN AZERBAIJAN MURDER ON ETHNIC GROUNDS IS A GOVERNMENTAL POLICY

19:39 02/04/2013 ” SOCIETY

In Azerbaijan, the murder on ethnic grounds is a governmental policy,
reads the article published on the Site of the Radio “The Voice
of Russia”, written by the candidate of historical sciences, Ruben
Zargaryan, candidate of historical sciences, Advisor of the 1st class
of the NKR MFA.

The article says that recently the 25th anniversary of the genocide
of the Armenians was marked in Azerbaijan. Unfortunately, the world
community still has not given a proper political and legal assessment
of this crime of the Azerbaijan authorities, and thus has not secured
itself against the future recurrence of genocide in other regions
of the world. “The genocide of the Armenians in Sumgait organized
by the authorities of Azerbaijan became the answer to the peaceful
constitutional decision of Nagorny Karabakh’s unification with
Armenia,” the author writes.

He reminds that on February 27-29, 1988, in the city of Sumgait,
located hundreds of kilometers away from Nagorno-Karabakh, there
occurred mass pogroms and killings of Armenians, crimes against
humanity that stunned the world public by its savagery and brutality.

During the three days of massacres and pogroms, dozens of Armenians
were killed, hundreds were wounded, a huge amount was subjected to
violence, torture and harassment, 18 thousand people became refugees.

“The genocide in Sumgait became the embodiment of hatred for Armenians
that was inherent for the policy of the leadership of the Republic
of Azerbaijan,” the article says.

Azerbaijan pogrom-makers armed with metal rods made at factories
and other thrust weapons commenced to the implementation of their
planned criminal actions. Piles of stones were stockpiled in the
centre of the city in order to throw them at motor transport and
forces of law and order. In the days of the pogroms, telephones of
the Armenian residents of Sumgait were turned off, and, as a rule,
they were turned off after people called the militia or the City
Committee of the Communist party with the request to help. The phones
of many Russian residents were also turned off.

“The pogrom-makers knew their tasks very well; they had on hand lists
of Armenians and their addresses. Groups of 50-80 bandits broke into
the houses of Armenians, killing people, not only in their homes,
but they often took them out in the street or courtyard for public
humiliation. After severe tortures, the victims were doused with
gasoline and burned alive. Thus they destroyed entire families,”
the author writes.

The article says that the genocide in Sumgait gave the “green light”
to new unprecedented crimes against the civilian population in
Nagorno-Karabakh, and ultimately led to the beginning of an open
military aggression of Azerbaijan against Nagorno-Karabakh in 1991-94.

“After the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic was proclaimed in accordance
with the norms of the international law and the legislation of the
USSR, Azerbaijan undertook a large-scale terrorist aggression. The
Baku administration had committed crimes against peace and humanity,
such as planning, preparation, unleashing and waging an aggressive
war, murder and extermination of civilian population, killing and
ill-treatment of prisoners of war, and intentional destruction of
towns and villages,” Zargaryan writes.

It says that, in February 1992, the Azerbaijan leadership committed
the murder of their own people in the territory of Khojalu controlled
by the Azerbaijan army, or more precisely in the outskirts of Aghdam,
whence the continuous bombardment of the NKR territory and attacks
on the cities and villages were carried out.

“The Azerbaijan authorities systematically falsify the events in
Khojalu. The Azerbaijan library still represents computer-edited photos
and displays other historical events in other geographical locations,”
he writes.

It also says, that Photos that allegedly represent the Khojalu
tragedy, in fact, are the photos of the earthquake in Turkey in 1983,
Afghan children-refugees, photos of Albanians killed in Kosovo, the
pogroms in the Balkans in 1999, etc. “Regularly playing the card of
“Khojalu”, the official Baku tries to distract the attention of the
international community from the genocide of the Armenians in Sumgait,
Baku, Kirovabad, Khanlar and otherAzerbaijan settlements, as well as
in the border settlements of Nagorno-Karabakh,” the article says.

The scientist notes that In the course of the large-scale aggression
of Azerbaijan against the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic in 1991-94,
in the Karabakh village of Maragha occupied by the Azerbaijan army
for several hours on April 10, 1992, 81 people were brutally killed,
67 people were taken hostage, and the fate of many of them is still
not known. People, who had not managed to leave the village, were
dismembered with axes, doused with gasoline and burned alive.

“Unfortunately, to this day, all these crimes committed by Azerbaijan
against humanity, have not been adequately assessed by the world
community. Today, in Azerbaijan, instead of repentance for endless
atrocities and murderous acts, instead of legal procedures against
the criminals, we only see and hear sabre-rattling and threats of
revanchism, terrorist calls for shooting down civilian aircrafts,
falsification of the facts of history and persistent racist
misanthropic insults of the Armenian people,” the author says.

According to the article the shameful release and glorification of
the murderer with an axe Safarov has once again demonstrated to the
world community that in Azerbaijan murder owing to national reasons
had been raised to the rank of state policy, and systematic and
deliberate lies and breakdowns of international agreements lie in
the basis of the Baku policy.

On 26-29 February 1988 in terms of actual complicity of local
authorities and inaction of the USSR government mass pogroms
of civilians were organized in Sumgait city of Azerbaijani SSR,
accompanied with unprecedented brutal murders, violence and pillaging
against the Armenian population of the city. Armenian pogroms in
Sumgait were carefully organized. At the meetings, which began on
February 26 in the central square, city leaders openly called for
violence against the Armenians.

On February 27 protests which were attended by hundreds of rioters
turned into violence. Armed with axes, knives, specially sharpened
rebar, rocks and cans of gasoline and with the pre-compiled lists of
apartments where Armenians lived the rioters broke into the houses,
turning everything upside down there and killing the owners. In
the same time, people were often taken out to the streets or to the
courtyard for jeering at them publicly. After painful humiliations
and torture the victims were doused with gasoline and burnt alive.

On February 29 army troops entered Sumgait but without an order to
intervene. Only in the evening, when the mad crowd began to attack
the soldiers the military units took up decisive steps.

The exact number of victims of Sumgait pogroms is still unknown.

According to official data, 32 people were killed; however there
is ample evidence that several hundred Armenians have been killed
in the city in three days. There is also evidence that the riots
were coordinated by KGB in Azerbaijan. Executioners of Sumgait were
subsequently declared as national heroes of Azerbaijan.

Documentary “Ordinary Genocide: Sumgait 1988”

Source: Panorama.am

From: A. Papazian

THE KARDASHIANS BEGIN EASTER SUNDAY WITH ARMENIAN BREAKFAST

APRIL 2, 17:07

The Kardashian family began Easter Sunday with an Armenian breakfast.

Khloe Kardashian shared several pictures from Easter festivities with
her family.

“We began the day with a traditional Armenian breakfast dish, Beeshee
[pancakes of dense dough sprinkled with sugar or powder sugar-ed.],
followed by an Easter egg hunt in my mom’s backyard. We do the same
thing every year, and it never gets old. It’s so important to stay
true to your family traditions and pass them down from generation to
generation,” she wrote on her website.

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From: A. Papazian

IRANIAN SUPREME LEADER’S REPRESENTATIVE PROPOSES JOINING REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN WITH IRAN THROUGH REFERENDUM

14:02 03/04/2013 ” ANALYSIS

The population of the Republic of Azerbaijan perceives itself as a
member separated from Iran, says an article by editor-in-chief of
Iran’s Kayhan newspaper Hossein Shariatmadari titled “Baku’s turn.”

According Iran’s news agency Fars, referring to the recent forum of
the anti-Iranian South Azerbaijan National Liberation Movement in Baku
and the fact that Iran sent a note of protest to Azerbaijan in this
connection, the Iranian Supreme Leader’s representative at Kayhan
writes, “The Republic of Azerbaijan has a population of around 10
million people, most of which are Shias. The Azerbaijanis have deep
cultural ties with the population of Iran’s Atrpatakan Province. The
current facts and observations leave no doubt that the population
of the Republic of Azerbaijan perceives itself as a member separated
from Iran.”

“Iran’s respected governmental officials can propose the Republic
of Azerbaijan government hold a referendum on joining the Republic
of Azerbaijan with the Iranian Azerbaijan (Iranian provinces of East
Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan),” Kayhan’s editor-in-chief says.

Source: Panorama.am

From: A. Papazian

BENEFIT CONCERT RAISES MEDICAL FUNDS FOR LITTLE EDWARD ARZUMANYAN FROM ARTSAKH

Hayk Ghazaryan

13:25, April 3, 2013

Yesterday, in Stepanakert Culture and Youth Palace, a benefit concert
took place to raise needed funds to cover the medical costs of four
year-old Edward Arzumanyan who was born without a gullet.

The boy had undergone a life-saving operation that used a section of
large intestine to replace the missing organ.

Edward~Rs father Gourgen says that when the boy eats, food gets
constricted in th gullet, warranting numerous trips to a Yerevan
hospital for surgery.

The only resolution is a total transplant.

The boy~Rs family has contacted a clinic in Israel that is ready to
perform the operation at a cost of $55,000 to $57,000.

Such an amount is way beyond the reach of Gourgen, who works as a
deliveryman at a local pizza shop. He fled Baku 23 years ago and has
been renting a house for his family ever since.

Students set-up the ~SEdward Arzumanyan Fund~T last December and have
been organizing fundraising events like yesterday~Rs concert.

Gourgen is an Artsakh War veteran who lost his twin brother in the
conflict.

Right now he says that his only hope to save his son Edward is the
kindness of others.

Those wishing to contribute to the Edward Arzumanyan Fund can do so
at: Artsakh Bank, Account22300810465301

Gourgen Arzumanyan can be reached at +37497359390 or +374971701

Email –

From: A. Papazian

“ZHOGHOVURD”: BABIES LAST BORN IN VANEK VILLAGE FOUR YEARS AGO

Wednesday,
April
03

Babies were last born four years ago in Vanek rural community of
Syunik province, the community head Samvel Arakelian told “Zhoghovurd”
newspaper.

The situation is similar in the neighboring village of Ltsen. 40
people, including 11 schoolchildren, live in Vanek now. “It was four
years ago that a baby was born in our village. I have a livestock
farm. I brought two families here and gave them jobs in order to
maintain the village. Most of the village residents are refugees,”
Arakelian said. In his words, the number of ageing residents exceeds
that of young people in the community.

TODAY, 13:07

Aysor.am

From: A. Papazian

ABOUT 400 EMPLOYEES LOSE JOBS DUE TO ARMAVIA’S BANKRUPTCY

Wednesday,
April
03

Some 400 employees have lost their jobs after the Armavia airline owned
by Mikhail Baghdasarov went bankrupt. The pilots have not received
their salaries for the last five months, from November 2012 to March
2013. A pilot told this to “Zhamanak” daily. According to him, at
the moment of its bankruptcy, the airline had about 50 pilots whose
monthly salaries made 2-3 million AMD.

Besides, the company has not paid salaries of the flight attendants
and aviation engineers.

400 employees of Armavia are now jobless. It will soon become clear
whether the authorities will find a new company interested in the
Armenian aviation market or the circulating rumors will finally become
reality and a state-owned airline will be set up.

TODAY, 12:22

Aysor.am

From: A. Papazian