Author: Andres-Papazian

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: MEDIA PLURALISM LACKING IN ARMENIA

NEWS.AM
January 31, 2013 | 19:48

Human Rights Watch has issued an annual world report summarizing
human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories
worldwide in 2012.

The report on Armenia says country’s ruling coalition retained
a parliamentary majority following the May 2012 elections amid
allegations of abuse of administrative resources, and intimidation
of voters, observers, and journalists.

“The government has yet to offer conscientious objectors a genuine
civilian alternative to military service and has failed to effectively
investigate a troubling number of non-combat deaths in the military.

Politically motivated defamation lawsuits no longer appear to be
a problem, but media pluralism is lacking, and some journalists
covering the May 6 parliamentary elections suffered violent attacks
by onlookers, some of them members of Armenia’s ruling political party.

Violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation are serious
problems. Bureaucratic restrictions prevent people with terminal
illnesses from accessing strong pain medications.”

As to the May 6 parliamentary election, the authors present assessments
of the OSCE monitoring report which labels the May 6 parliamentary
elections as competitive and largely peaceful, yet marred by “an
unequal playing field” due to misuse of administrative resources,
and party representatives and local authorities pressuring voters,
interfering in voting, and hindering the work of journalists.

The report also mentions cases of army abuses citing local human rights
groups which reported 44 non-combat army deaths through September.

From: A. Papazian

TOTAL CAPITAL OF ARMENIA’S BANKING SYSTEM $1BN

TERT.AM
20:10 ~U 31.01.13

Last year, the aggregate capital of Armenia’s banking system totaled
AMD 409.5bn (around $1bn) – an AMD 38.8bn (10.5%) increase as compared
with 2011.

The banking system’s assets totaled AMD 2,412.2bn – an AMD 368.5bn
(18%) increase, Mr Ashot Osipyan, Chairman of the Union of Banks of
Armenia, told journalists on Thursday.

The loans totaled AMD 1,517.9bn – an AMD 264.3bn (21%) increase.

The banking system’s total liabilities reached AMD 2,002.7bn – an
AMD 329.6bn (19.7%) increase.

Mr Osipyan said that the liabilities to clients totaled AMD 187.9bn
(17.9% of the total liabilities).

The profit of Armenia’s banking system totaled AMD 42.7bn in 2012 –
an AMD 5.6bn (15%) increase as compared with 2011.

Twenty-eight new bank branches were opened last year bringing the
number of branches up to 494.

Yield on bank capital was around 11.2%, and return on assets was
around 2%.

The 21 commercial banks operating in Armenia paid AMD 25.8bn as
imposts and taxes in 2012 against AMD 21.6bn in 2011.

From: A. Papazian

MESS ABOUT KARABAKH REMARKS IS CAMPAIGN AGAINST GEORGIA’S NATIONAL INTERESTS – MAIA PANJIKIDZE

NEWS.AM
January 31, 2013 | 15:11

YEREVAN.- Georgian FM Maia Panjikidze said mess about her statements on
Nagorno-Karabakh was a campaign against national interests of Georgia.

Her comments came in response to media reports about her Karabakh
remarks made in Lithuania. Azerbaijani reports mentioned Panjikidze
allegedly said “resolution of Karabakh conflict is possible only based
on territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.” Later Armenian media reported
that during the meeting in Lithuania, Panjikidze noted “she respects
territorial integrity of Azerbaijan” but did not mention Karabakh.

In an interview with Prime Time newspaper, she said the campaign
launched by Georgian media and the opposition was directed against
country’s national interests. Speaking about the recent visit of
Georgian PM to Yerevan, she said it was successful, while the campaign
was directed against good relations with Armenia and was targeted at
criticism against Georgian government.

From: A. Papazian

ARTUR BAGDASARYAN: OPENING OF THE EU CENTER IN YEREVAN WILL GIVE MORE NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO ARMENIA

ARMINFO
Thursday, January 31, 16:04

“The opening of this center is a result of the joint hard work for the
last 3-4 years”, – Secretary of Armenia’s National Security Council,
chairman of the inter-department commission for coordination of
Armenia-EU partnership, Artur Bagdasaryan, said at today’s opening
ceremony of the EU Center in Yerevan.

“The opening of the Center is very much important, as it will let to
get more detailed information about the activity of the EU. Moreover,
thanks to the document signed in Brussels, from now on, all the
programmes of the EU have become available for Armenia and the latter
can take part in them.

According to my calculations, this will allow Armenia, besides the 80
programme which are being implemented at present, to involve at least
another 70. That is to say, this will allow Armenia to cooperate with
the EU in more than 150 directions”, – Bagdasaryan said.

“I want to welcome the EU’s policy more or more and I want to stress
that Armenia has already used that opportunity. Today our relations
with the EU are wonderful and the opening of the center will give new
opportunities. There are many programs that are not available to the
state and public sector and the center will give an opportunity to
get acquainted with the programs and get involved,”- he said.

For his part, Armenia’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Zohrab Mnatsakanyan,
added that the center is one more instrument which will allow Armenia
to make the policy between Armenia and the EU more available. “We are
pleased with the dynamics of development of relations with European
Union. We are going to start a new stage on the Association Agreement.

And our goals regarding the summit in Vilnus remain valid. We have been
purposefully working in this direction”, – Mnatsakanyan said and added
that the center is a good instrument which will help to understand
how the EU works in this or that sphere and what we have to wait for.

From: A. Papazian

RUSSIA SETS ITS FACE TOWARDS MAJOR ALLY IN CAUCASUS – ARMENIA

Aysor.am
January 30

The visit of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu to Armenia is
over. This was Shoygu’s first trip abroad in his capacity as Defense
Minister. According to the Defense Ministry, it was a scheduled visit,
although it took place amid increased tensions around the Karabakh
conflict, “wrote “Nezavisimaya Gazeta”, Russia.

According to the source, Moscow is deeply concerned about official
Baku’s statements that Azerbaijani air defense was ordered to shoot
down civilian planes that “illegally enter its airspace”. By saying
its “airspace”, Baku means the airspace of Nagorno Karabakh as well.

Russian experts say this stance of Baku may lead to a war.

Such a possibility arose after in 2010 Russia sold two batteries of
“Favorite” anti-aircraft missile systems to Azerbaijan instead of Iran.

Sources of the Russian Defense Ministry say that after the negotiations
between Baku and Moscow over the lease of Gabala radar station had
collapsed, President Putin revoked the decision to sell a third
battery to Azerbaijan.

The mass media did not report whether Shoygu spoke about the
possibility of the Stepanakert airport’s official opening during his
meetings with Seerzh Sargsyan and Armenian Defense Minister Seyran
Ohanian. The Russian Ministry sources say, however, that on the
unofficial level the Russian delegation members advised Armenians
against doing such a thing. At the same time during the negotiations,
special attention was paid to discussion of the details of the
draft agreement on military-technical cooperation between Russia
and Armenia. The heads of the two countries are expected to sign the
agreement in the near future.

“Eventually, Russia sets its face towards Armenia, its main and
strategic ally in the South Caucasus. Strengthening Armenia’s
military potential is a guarantee of stability in the region. This
is a deterrent against Azerbaijan that tries to solve the Karabakh
problem by military means,” Lieutenant General Yuri Netkachev said.

From: A. Papazian

AI: COUNCIL OF EUROPE MUST INTERVENE AFTER AZERBAIJAN IMPRISONS MORE PEACEFUL PROTESTERS

LONDON. January 29, 2013: Scores of activists were detained and five
sentenced to prison following a peaceful protest in Azerbaijan on
Saturday, prompting Amnesty International to urge the Council of
Europe to make clear it will stand up for free expression in the
Caucasus country.

The arrest of around 80 peaceful protesters, 30 of whom were then
charged, came just days after the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (PACE) failed to pass a resolution on political
prisoners calling on Azerbaijan to cease arresting and prosecuting
peaceful protesters.

Saturday~Rs protest began as a peaceful gathering of more than 200
people in three separate locations in central Baku, the capital, to
demonstrate against the authorities~R violent dispersal of another,
larger protest in the northern Azerbaijani city of Ismayili last week.

~SJust days after PACE rejected a resolution on politically motivated
arrests, the prosecution of these 30 individuals demonstrates how
far the issue is from being resolved,~T said John Dalhuisen, Amnesty
International~Rs Director for Europe and Central Asia.

~SThe PACE co-Rapporteurs responsible for monitoring Azerbaijan~Rs
obligations to the Council, Pedro Agramunt and Joseph Debono Grech,
opposed the resolution on political prisoners proposed by German
MP Christoph Strässer, stating they would address the problem of
political prisoners themselves.

~SHaving taken on this responsibility, they must now intervene to
ensure the sentences of those imprisoned or fined for taking part in
Saturday~Rs protest are overturned.~T

Unfair court hearings ~V lasting just minutes and using court-appointed
lawyers ~V were held after Saturday~Rs arrests, and 25 activists,
including three people Amnesty International previously declared as
prisoners of conscience, were handed heavy fines of between 300 and
2500 AZN ($383 and $3,186). The average monthly wage in Azerbaijan
is $513.

A further five activists were handed prison sentences for their role in
the protest ~V 15 days for blogger and former prisoner of conscience
Emin Milli, and 13 days each for Abulfaz Gurbanli, Rufat Abdullayev,
Turkel Alisoy and Turkel Azerturk.

Among those arrested and put on trial was Khadija Ismayilova,
a prominent independent journalist who was recently blackmailed
and targeted in a smear campaign after she published a report on
presidential corruption. She told Amnesty International:

~SI was among the protesters in Sahil park [in central Baku]~E [by then
it was] already silent, as most of the protesters were dispersed. The
group of the police attacked just to take me. I was screaming, asking
who they are, as they never introduced themselves and what they want.

~SMy trial was a comedy. I entered the room where two men were sitting
on the defence’s place. I asked who they are and the judge said they
were my lawyers. I said ~QI don’t know these people, I don’t trust
them and I refuse. I want my own lawyers.~R I didn’t know that in
fact my lawyers were outside of the building and were not allowed
in. The judge said I can’t have my own lawyer as they are not here.~T

Ismayili protests

Saturday~Rs demonstration in Baku was a reaction to the violent
dispersal of protests several days earlier in Ismayili, about 200km
north-west of the capital. Police there used tear gas and rubber
bullets against crowds calling for the resignation of a local
governor. Several cars and at least two buildings were set ablaze
during the unrest.

Hundreds of people were also detained during the Ismayili protests,
and there have been allegations of torture in detention.

~SAmnesty International is concerned at reports that several people
arrested in relation to the unrest in Ismayili have been tortured
and ill-treated while in custody. We are calling for an immediate,
impartial and effective investigation into any such complaints,~T
said Dalhuisen.

~SWe are further calling on the Azerbaijani authorities to overturn
the sentences of all those fined and sentenced in Baku for having
taken part in Saturday~Rs peaceful protest~T (Amnesty International).

From: A. Papazian

SECRET VIDEOS THREATEN TOP AIDE OF AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT

By Shahin Abbasov, Eurasianet.org

BAKU. January 30, 2013: A series of videos depicting graft inside the
halls of power in Azerbaijan could have serious implications for one
of the country’s most influential officials, 74-year-old presidential
Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev.

The scandal, known as Gulargate, erupted last September when the
former rector of Baku’s now-closed International University, Elshad
Abdullayev, published an online video showing himself discussing the
$2-million price tag for a seat in parliament with Gular Ahmadova, an
MP for the governing Yeni Azerbaijan Party and her assistant, Sevinj
Babayeva. Abdullayev is said to have secretly recorded the video in
2005. It appears to implicate Ahmadova in the sale of parliamentary
seats, and seems to identify Ramiz Mehdiyev as a beneficiary.

Abdullayev, now a political refugee in France, has since published
10 more videos that purportedly reveal widespread corruption in
Azerbaijan’s executive branch, judiciary system and law-enforcement
agencies. All of them place Mehdiyev in an unfavorable light. Some show
Abdullayev negotiating for the return of the $2 million after he lost
the 2005 parliamentary elections; others document his negotiations
with a Supreme Court judge and Interior Ministry mediators about
bribes and a ransom for the release of his brother, Mahir, a senior
official at the Ministry of National Security, from kidnappers.

In interviews with Azerbaijani media outlets, Abdullayev has pledged to
release about 800 more such videos during the run-up to Azerbaijan’s
October presidential elections. His aim, he claims, is to find out
what happened to his brother, who was kidnapped in 2003, and whose
whereabouts remain unknown.

But local experts and politicians believe that Abdullayev’s real aim
is to undermine Mehdiyev. And some suspect that he isn’t acting alone.

A patriarch of Azerbaijani politics and an important ideologist
for the incumbent administration, Mehdiyev is widely seen as one
of the most powerful public figures in Azerbaijan after President
Ilham Aliyev. A former Communist Party ideologist, he has been a
top presidential aide for nearly 18 years, beginning under Ilham
Aliyev’s father, Heydar. Aside from his executive-branch role,
Mehdiyev wields considerable influence over legislative matters,
law-enforcement agencies and the country’s regional administrations.

Mehdiyev repeatedly has denied involvement in the bribery schemes
discussed in the videos, and dismissed Abdullayev as a “criminal”
with a reputation for “selling diplomas.” As yet, he has not been
questioned by investigators.

President Aliyev has not yet commented publicly on the scandal. But
political analyst Elhan Shahinoglu, director of the Baku-based Atlas
research center, predicts that if more videos appear, Aliyev will
have to address the issue before Azerbaijan’s October presidential
elections. Following recent riots in the town of Ismayili and protests
in Baku over perceived abuses of power, the government, arguably,
must tread gingerly in an election year.

“Honestly, even if Ilham Aliyev wins a third term in October, I do
not see Ramiz Mehdiyev in his administration after it [the election],”
Shahinoglu said.

At the same time, law-enforcement agencies are unlikely to make
Medhiyev the subject of a corruption investigation while he remains
in office, Shahinoglu added.

Economist Natik Jafarly, one of the leaders of the opposition group
REAL, is among those who don’t believe that Abdullayev, a man not
known as being a trailbazer for transparency, is acting alone. “I do
not think that Elshad Abdullayev is just an angry person who lost his
brother, university and lots of money. … It is a political process.”

The Public Chamber, a mainstream group which unites the country’s
two largest opposition parties, Musavat and the Popular Front Party
of Azerbaijan, does not conceal that the videos will be a focus of
their upcoming presidential campaign.

Who exactly stands to gain from any fall from power by Mehdiyev
remains an open question.

Opposition-linked Azerbaijani media have speculated that the videos’
release could be tied to First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva’s relatives,
who form the backbone of the influential Pashayev clan. The group has
interests in several important financial sectors, including banking
and insurance.

Jafarly suggested that Pashayev’s involvement in the scandal stretched
the limits of credibility, given that the videos, viewed collectively,
paint an unappealing picture of Azerbaijan’s ruling elites. “[I]t is
like shaking a boat in which they are all sitting,” he commented.

“Abdullayev’s videos are harming not only Ramiz Mehdiyev’s reputation;
they show how corrupt the whole government and the system are.”

In response to the videos’ appearance, the General Prosecutor’s Office
has launched a corruption investigation against Ahmadova, who has lost
her parliamentary seat and YAP membership, and has been placed under
house arrest. In addition, a Supreme Court judge, Aghababa Babayev,
has been fired.

Ahmadova’s assistant, 41-year-old Sevinj Babayeva, died from heart
failure in an Istanbul hospital in late December – an event that only
intensified speculation about the scandal. -0- * Shahin Abbasov is
a freelance reporter based in Baku.

From: A. Papazian

“HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH” CALLED ON THE AZERBAIJANI GOVERNMENT TO MAINTAIN LEGALITY

Thu, 01/31/2013 – 12:42
International news

“The Azerbaijani government should insure that all the arrestees
concerning the riots in Ismaili have attorneys and insure that they
are not being treated rude. The government should also insure the
free entry of the observers into Ismaili – the “Human Rights Watch”
announced yesterday.

In the announcement it is stated that 3 attorneys informed about the
violations of the procedure and about the beating of the accusers. The
police didn’t allow a group of 20 human rights protectors to operate
monitoring in the prison.

The organization called on the Azerbaijani government to examine the
cases in an open and objective manner and gave its opinion about the
actions of the police.

The representative of “Human Rights Watch”Georgi Gogia called on
reservation of the use of force against the peaceful demonstrates.

“Azerbaijan should listen to the guarantees of the European Council
and stop the prohibitions put on peaceful demonstrations, release the
people who have been arrested for the expression of their opinion in
public and also examine the actions of the guardian of law”.

Author: Factinfo

From: A. Papazian

IL Y A 80 ANS, LES NAZIS PRENAIENT LE POUVOIR

Publie le : 30-01-2013

Info Collectif VAN – – “Le 30 janvier est
l’anniversaire de la nomination de Hitler comme chancelier. 80 ans
après, cette date resonne encore comme l’avènement du regime le plus
reactionnaire de l’histoire moderne. Contrairement aux affirmations
souvent entendues, les nazis ne sont pas arrives au pouvoir suite a
une victoire electorale mais par un coup de force presidentiel, dans
un climat de violence et de division de la gauche”. Nos partenaires
de Memorial 98 ont publie sur leur site un article très interessant
que le Collectif VAN relaye ici.

MEMORIAL 98

30 janvier 1933 : le desastre

Mercredi 30 janvier 2013

Le 30 janvier est l’anniversaire de la nomination de Hitler comme
chancelier. 80 ans après, cette date resonne encore comme l’avènement
du regime le plus reactionnaire de l’histoire moderne.

Contrairement aux affirmations souvent entendues, les nazis ne
sont pas arrives au pouvoir suite a une victoire electorale mais
par un coup de force presidentiel, dans un climat de violence et
de division de la gauche. Ainsi lors des derniers scrutins de 1932,
a la presidentielle du 13 mars, Hitler a obtenu 30,1% et a ete battu
au deuxième tour par Hindenburg ; lors des legislatives de juillet
1932, au summum de sa poussee, le parti nazi a obtenu 37,4 % des voix
mais lors des legislatives de novembre 1932 (les dernières elections
libres), il retombe a 33,1 en perdant 2 millions de voix. La nomination
de Hitler comme chancelier en janvier 1933 ne doit donc rien a un
choix democratique. C’est le debut de la destruction des libertes,
acceleree par l’incendie du Reichstag.

Le president de la Republique, le vieux marechal Paul Von Hindenburg
(86 ans), charge Hitler, chef du parti nazi, de former le nouveau
gouvernement allemand.

Cette nomination fait suite a des tractations entre l’ancien chancelier
conservateur Franz Von Papen et le financier Schacht, qui represente
les nazis.

Von Papen et les conservateurs espèrent se servir du Fuhrer nazi pour
enrayer la menace communiste. Son parti est en effet selon eux en perte
de vitesse. Le nouveau chancelier constitue un gouvernement largement
ouvert aux representants de la droite. Il ne compte que trois nazis,
Hitler compris. Von Papen est lui-meme vice-chancelier.

Faute de majorite absolue au Parlement, Hitler paraît loin de pouvoir
gouverner a son aise.

Course a la dictature

Avec une rapidite foudroyante et par des moyens tout a fait illegaux,
Hitler installe sa dictature. Dès le lendemain de son investiture,
Hitler dissout le Parlement (Reichstag) et prepare de nouvelles
elections pour le 5 mars 1933. Il trace tout de suite ce que son chef
de la propagande, Josef Goebbels, appelle “les grandes lignes de la
lutte armee contre la terreur rouge “.

Les miliciens de son parti, les Sections d’Assaut (SA), terrorisent
l’opposition pendant la campagne electorale et commettent 51
assassinats.

Ils beneficient de la position-cle de l’un des principaux lieutenants
de Hitler, Goering.

Nomme ministre de l’Interieur du principal Etat allemand, la Prusse,
il en profite pour manipuler la police, revoquer les fonctionnaires
hostiles, placer des nazis aux postes essentiels…

Hitler fait planer le spectre de la “revolution bolchevique”
mais celle-ci tardant a eclater, il decide de l’inventer. Le 24
fevrier, une descente de police au siège du Parti communiste allemand
permet a Goering d’annoncer la saisie de documents annoncant ladite
revolution… ces documents ne seront jamais publies.

Comme toute cette agitation ne semble pas suffire a rallier une
majorite de suffrages aux nazis, ces derniers decident en consequence
d’organiser une provocation.

Le 27 fevrier 1933, a Berlin, le Reichstag prend feu. Dans l’immeuble
du Parlement allemand, la police se saisit d’un Hollandais communiste
et en apparence desequilibre, Marinus van der Lubbe. Il sera considere
comme responsable de l’incendie et execute.

Il semble en fait que le soir du 27 fevrier, un detachement de Sections
d’Assaut (SA) nazies aurait emprunte un passage souterrain menant de
la demeure de Goring au Reichstag et y aurait repandu des produits
hautement inflammables.

La presence de Van der Lubbe sur place au meme moment, allumant de
son côte de petits foyers d’incendie, n’aurait ete qu’une coïncidence,
a moins que des agents nazis ne l’aient pousse a la faute.

Vers la dictature

Dès le lendemain, le 28 fevrier, Goering attribue l’incendie a un
pretendu complot communiste et fait arreter 4000 responsables du Parti
communiste allemand. Le meme jour, il fait signer par Von Hindenburg
un “decret pour la protection du peuple et de l’Etat” qui suspend les
libertes fondamentales, donne des pouvoirs de police exceptionnels
aux Regions (Lander) et met fin aux libertes democratiques.

Un communiste bulgare, Georgi Dimitrov, est presente comme la tete
du complot. Il est juge mais echappe a la mort car le procès tourne
au desavantage du regime.

Le 23 mars 1933 est ouvert près de Munich, a Dachau, le premier camp
de concentration ; des opposants politiques y sont internes. Les
nazis peuvent dès lors mener une campagne electorale qui mele terreur
et propagande sans qu’aucun opposant ne soit en mesure de se faire
entendre.

Malgre cette pression, les elections du 5 mars ne donnent aux partis
nationalistes regroupes autour des nazis qu’une courte majorite au
Parlement. Les nazis eux-memes obtiennent 17 millions de voix (44%).

C’est encore insuffisant a Hitler pour modifier la Constitution en
sa faveur. Il lui manque la majorite des deux tiers.

Les sociaux-democrates conservent 7,2 millions de voix et les
communistes 4,8 millions de voix. Zentrum, le parti catholique du
Centre, accroît pour sa part le nombre de ses electeurs et avec son
allie, le Parti catholique du peuple bavarois, obtient un total de
5,5 millions de voix.

Le 23 mars, l’Assemblee se reunit a Berlin, a l’Opera Kroll. Elle se
voit soumettre par Hitler un “decret d’habilitation” qui prevoit de
donner au chancelier un pouvoir legislatif exclusif pendant quatre
ans, autrement dit le droit de gouverner et de legiferer sans l’accord
des deputes.

Les sociaux-democrates refusent le vote du decret. Hitler, a la
tribune, les couvre d’injures. Mais le chef du Zentrum, Monseigneur
Ludwig Kaas, convainc son groupe parlementaire de voter pour Hitler,
contre la vaine promesse que celui-ci respecterait le droit de veto
du president Von Hindenburg. Fort de la majorite indispensable des
deux tiers, Hitler dispose dès lors d’un pouvoir dictatorial sur la
plus grande puissance d’Europe continentale.

Dès le 31 mars, faisant usage du decret d’habilitation, Hitler dissout
les Diètes (ou assemblees legislatives) des differents Etats qui
composent la Republique allemande, a l’exception de la Prusse.

“Autodafe des livres”

La dictature hitlerienne organise, le 10 mai 1933, sur la place de
l’Opera, face a l’universite de Berlin, d’un “autodafe rituel des
ecrits juifs nuisibles”. 20.000 livres sont brûles. Parmi les auteurs
voues au feu figurent Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Albert
Einstein, Franz Kafka, Stefan Zweig, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Les
~uvres des artistes “degeneres”, tels Van Gogh, Picasso, Matisse,
Cezanne et Chagall, sont par ailleurs bannies des musees.

Avènement du IIIe Reich

L’annee suivante, le 2 août 1934, le vieux president de la Republique
allemande, le marechal Paul Von Hindenburg decède.

Hitler profite de sa disparition pour reunir les fonctions de president
et de chancelier. Il proclame l’avènement d’un IIIe Reich allemand
dont il se presente comme le Fuhrer (guide en allemand), avec un
pouvoir dictatorial.

Retour a la rubrique

Source/Lien : MEMORIAL 98

From: A. Papazian

CONFERENCE SUR LE JOURNALISME MODERNE A EREVAN

Une conference sur le journalisme moderne de cinq jours a ete
organisee par Centre d’analyse politique Nord-Sud, l’agence de presse
RIA Novosti, avec la participation de l’agence Armenie-Novosti et la
Maisons des livres russes en Armenie.

Alexey Vlasov, Un historien russe et le directeur executif du
Centre d’Analyse Politique Nord-Sud a declare que, ces dernières
deux annees le pouvoir en Russie a accorde plus d’importance aux
contacts humanitaires.

” Dans ce contexte, le rôle du secteur prive est de plus en plus
affirme “, a-t-il dit.

Il a dit que la mission de cette conference est non seulement de former
les journalistes en leur presentant de nouvelles technologies des
medias, mais aussi d’isoler le groupe le plus actif des journalistes,
a qui il sera offert de publier leurs articles sur l’Armenie pour
les lecteurs russes.

” Nous prevoyons de reunir les participants les plus actifs a la
formation a Moscou fin 2013 afin de couvrir l’Olympiade de Sotchi ”
a dit Alexey Vlasov ajoutant que ces formations seront constantes.

L’ambassadeur russe en Armenie Viatcheslav Kovalenko, qui a parle lors
de la ceremonie d’ouverture, a souligne le manque d’analyses propres.

” Beaucoup de choses sont ecrites a la hâte, elles sont peu profondes
et elles ne peuvent pas satisfaire les lecteurs intelligents ”
a-t-il dit.

L’objectif de la formation est d’ameliorer les competences des jeunes
journalistes en Armenie et de fournir aux medias du pays de nouvelles
ressources humaines.

jeudi 31 janvier 2013, Stephane ©armenews.com

From: A. Papazian