Author: Andres-Papazian

BURNT ARMENIAN CHURCH IN ALEPPO WILL NOT BE RESTORED SOON – REPRESENTATIVE

news.am
October 30, 2012 | 12:24

ALEPPO. – The Sourp Kevork (Saint George) Armenian Church, which was
burned down in Aleppo’s Armenian populated Nor Kyugh (New Village)
district, will not be restored soon because there are constant fights
in the area, Press Secretary Jirair Reisian of the National Primacy
of Aleppo of the Armenian Apostolic Church told Armenian News-NEWS.am,
and he added that the Armenians had left the troubled district a long
time ago.

“News was received, several times ago, about the church being set on
fire, but it was denied later. Aside from the church, a considerable
damage is caused to the neighboring Mesrobian College. At present,
the district is deserted,” Reisian said.

To note, the Syrian rebels organized a terrorist attack Monday in
Jaramana city in the greater Damascus metropolitan area and, as a
result of the explosion, two Armenians-Rana Salhap Kaladjian and Rana
Nanouf Mehmedjian-likewise were killed. An Armenian, by the name of
Anoush Apovian, was injured, but, after being administered first aid,
she was discharged from hospital.

From: A. Papazian

ARMENIAN CEMETERY HAS NO CULTURAL VALUE – TURKISH MINISTRY

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October 30, 2012 | 12:37

Armenian cemetery has no cultural value and Turkey’s ministry of
culture and tourism is not interested whether it is destroyed or not.

This is the ministry’s response received by correspondent of
Aykiridogrular website, Armenian by origin, Cevat Sinet. The response
came several months after his publication on destroyed Armenian
cemetery.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier, an Armenian cemetery
was destroyed in July to build a new road in the Eruh region of the
country’s Siirt (Sghert) Province.

Until now, however, an Armenian church-which is located within
the borders of the Kurdish Khert village-was already ruined, and
its continuation was that, instead of restoring the church, the
authorities began destroying the Armenian cemetery situated in the
vicinity of the church.

And even though the human skeletons are scattered all over the
area, the persons in charge continue to build roads on the bones
of Armenians.

It is not the first case of vandalism against the Armenian graves
in Turkey. Armenian cemeteries are destroyed to build a school,
kindergarten, hospital, stadium or road.

From: A. Papazian

ARTASHAT MONASTERY MONUMENTAL BUILDING – INSTITUTE DIRECTOR

30.10.12

Photo by Ankhakh.com

The director of the National Academy’s Institute of Archaeology and
Ethnography says they are scheduling archeological, biological and
collective-ethnographic expeditions and excavations on the territory
of Artashat this year.

Excavations in Artashat, an ancient Armenian capital, are being
conducted for the tenth year. The foundations of the city’s monastery
and an adjacent construction – a public bath with a mosaic design –
have been already unearthed. Scientists believe the monastery was
built under King Artashes.

“All are monumental constructions. We have unearthed both the
foundations and the walls. The structures dating from 2nd until the
3rd-4th centuries BC are buildings suiting the capital of Artashat. We
have unearthed quite a big territory,” Pavel Avetisyan, the Institute’s
director, told Tert.am.

Scholars at the Institute are also studying ancient sites tracing
back to the late 7th until the early 6th centuries AD to discover
the agricultural societies’ heritage in the Armenian highlands.

Asatryan particularly singled out the ancient sites of Aknashen
(near Echmiadzin) and Masis Blur (near Yerevan) as most remarkable
places of study.

The Institute also conducts expeditions on the territories of the most
ancient monuments (from Stone to Middle Ages) of the Armenian highlands
and the ancient Armenian capitals (Armavir, Yervandashat and Dvin).

From: A. Papazian

LE NOBEL DE LITTERATURE TURC ORHAN PAMUK DECORE DE LA LEGION D’HONNEUR
Stephane

armenews.com
mardi 30 octobre 2012

L’ecrivain turc Orhan Pamuk, prix Nobel de litterature en 2006, a
recu lundi les insignes d’Officier de l’ordre national de la Legion
d’honneur des mains de la ministre francaise de la Culture, qui a salue
sa “liberte de style” et son combat “contre toutes les intolerances”.

“Vous restez, malgre toutes les consecrations, un ecrivain
d’avant-garde, un eternel novateur”, a souligne Aurelie Filippetti
en recevant l’ecrivain dont les livres ont ete ecoules a plus de 11
millions d’exemplaires dans le monde.

“Et cette liberte dans le style correspond totalement a la liberte
de l’homme (…) Vous qui n’avez jamais hesite, meme au prix d’une
très grande solitude, a vous elever contre l’oubli, les silences de
l’Histoire”, a poursuivi la ministre.

Orhan Pamuk est l’un des seuls intellectuels turcs a avoir publiquement
reconnu, en 2005, le genocide des Armeniens. Il a ete plusieurs fois
poursuivi par la justice de son pays, puis menace de mort par des
extremistes après son depart pour les Etats-Unis en 2007.

Il y vit toujours aujourd’hui.

Le romancier s’est aussi eleve contre le traitement par Ankara de
la minorite kurde et a ete le premier ecrivain du monde musulman
a critiquer la fatwa lancee par l’ayatollah Khomeini contre Salman
Rushdie, l’auteur des Versets sataniques.

“Vous n’avez cesse de vous battre contre toutes les intolerances,
tous les fanatismes, les integrismes, les oppressions, les terreurs,
le mepris des exclus”, a releve Aurelie Filippetti, rappelant l’immense
succès rencontre en France par les livres de l’ecrivain turc, ne le
7 juin 1952 a Istanbul.

Orhan Pamuk est l’auteur turc dont les ouvrages sont les plus vendus
dans le monde, traduits dans plus de 60 langues. Il a ete aussi en
2006 le premier Turc a etre couronne par le prix Nobel de litterature.

Nombre de ses romans, publies en France chez Gallimard, sont devenus
des classiques : “La Maison du Silence”, “Mon nom est Rouge”, “Le
Livre Noir”, “D’autres couleurs”, “Neige”, prix Medicis etranger 2005,
“Le Musee de l’innocence”…

L’ecrivain, qui accumule les prix litteraires aux Etats-Unis et en
Europe, a egalement recu vendredi le prix Sonning, la plus prestigieuse
recompense culturelle au Danemark, qui distingue un travail en faveur
de la culture europeenne.

A l’occasion de l’ouverture du departement des Arts de l’Islam au
Louvre, Orhan Pamuk a aussi ete l’invite du musee le week-end dernier,
participant a un debat et des lectures de son oeuvre.

mardi 30 octobre 2012, Stephane ©armenews.com

From: A. Papazian

ANC CANDIDATE WILL BE THE MAIN FACTOR AT UPCOMING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, LYUDMILA SARGSYAN CLAIMS

Mediamax
Oct 29 2012
Armenia

Yerevan/Mediamax/. Member of the ANC faction of the National Assembly
of Armenia, Head of Social-Democrat Hnchakyan Party Lyudmila Sargsyan
said that “the candidate of the Armenian National Congress will be
the main factor at the upcoming presidential elections”.

Lyudmila Sargsyan noted that everyone in the ANC is sure that the
Congress should nominate its own candidate at upcoming presidential
elections, Mediamax reports.

Touching upon the possible cooperation with the PAP, member of the
ANC faction said that “there is no any cooperation yet”.

“If there are political forces which are ready to get into competition
together with us and realize that the regime should be changed,
there are no eternal enemies or friends”, she said.

Lyudmila Sargsyan described the current political situation as “calm
before the storm”. She thinks that the political activity will be
more visible within upcoming 20 days than it’s expected.

From: A. Papazian

ARMENIA AND US TO EXCHANGE EXPERIENCE IN DEFENSE INDUSTRY

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October 29, 2012 | 13:20

YEREVAN.- Armenia and the U.S. plan to establish cooperation in defense
industry, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan told reporters on Monday.

Press conference followed the meeting between Ohanyan and Ray Mabus,
U.S. Secretary of Navy who is on a visit to Yerevan.

Ohanyan said defense industry is a new direction of cooperation between
the states. The Minister stressed that Armenia, as a post-Soviet state,
is mainly equipped with Soviet arms but there are opportunities for
introducing new standards.

“We can realize experience exchange, especially in terms of using
small arms and optics,” he said.

Mutual visits are the proof of high level cooperation in defense
sector Ohanyan said, adding that cooperation is developing in two
directions — peacekeeping activities and defense reforms.

Armenian Minister recalled that nearly 200 peacekeepers were trained
in Romania and Germany.

“Cooperation in this direction will continue in 2013,” he assured.

Ohanyan said a wide range of issues on regional stability and security
were discussed during the meeting.

“We discussed issues on Afghanistan. We are committed to providing
security,” Ohanyan concluded.

From: A. Papazian

ARMENIAN-US RELATIONS ARE DEVELOPING DYNAMICALLY

Armenian Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanyan met today US navy forces
secretary Rey Mabus, press service of Armenian Ministry of Defense
informs. During the meeting Armenian Minister of Defense noted that
the cooperation between Armenia and the USA is developing and the
cooperation would be continued also in 2013.

After the private meeting Armenian Minister of Defense and the USA
navy forces secretary had a joint briefing. S. Ohanyan thanked the
US official for the visit and underlined that Armenian-US relations
had been developed dynamically in 2011-12.

“High level bilateral visits took place between two countries. This
visit confirms that the relations between Armenia and the USA are on
high level.”

R. Mabus thanked for the warm acceptance and noted that the USA rated
relations with Armenia and the high-level visits confirmed it.

From: A. Papazian

L’ARMENIE SERAIT EN CAMPAGNE INTERNATIONALE POUR LA RECONNAISSANCE DU HK
Jean Eckian

armenews.com
lundi 29 octobre 2012

Selon le site turc bursadabugun.com, se referant au MIT, service
de renseignement turc, l’Armenie serait en campagne internationale
aux fins de faire reconnaître l’independance de la republique du
Haut Karabakh.

Le service des renseignements speciaux se base sur les derniers
voyages du ministre des Affaires etrangères Edward Nalbandian en
Amerique du Sud, au Venezuela et en Amerique centrale, Mexique,
Equateur, Costa Rica et au Guatemala.

Il y a queques jours, la Nouvelle-Galles du Sud en Australie a
reconnu l’independance du Haut-Karabakh, ainsi que l’Etat americain
de Rhode Island.

From: A. Papazian

Artsakh army equipped with new weapons

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October 26, 2012 | 22:37

STEPANAKERT. – The Artsakh [Nagorno-Karabakh] defense army is getting
improved and filled with new weapons, Artsakh MOD Movses Hakobyan
said.

He mentioned among the achievements the recent pageant, which was held
on this May 9 on the occasion of the World War II and the anniversary
of Shushi city liberation. The Minister also stated that the pageant
introduced the most modern armaments and technologies. Among other
important events were the recent exercises.

According to Hakobyan, the army is periodically equipped with newer
armaments. Also parallel to it, the army obtains new
contract-servicemen.

From: A. Papazian

The Philadelphia Inquirer
October 26, 2012 Friday
CITY-D Edition

Pianist Arghamanyan focuses on her own links to composers in her appearance

By Peter Dobrin; Inquirer Music Critic

Ghosts of performers past stand guard over standard repertoire, and it
takes a ruthless individualist to wave then off. But Nareh Arghamanyan
never seemed to consciously repudiate her predecessors in an
extraordinarily charismatic Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
appearance Wednesday night at the American Philosophical Society.
Rather, it was as if the 23-year-old Armenian-born pianist had never
encountered them at all, and was interested only in her own personal
communions with Bach, Schumann, and Rachmaninoff.

What this meant in the oft-played Fantasiestücke was the declaration
of Schumann as a composer not completely of his contemporaries, but
apart. That she underlined the two contradictory sides to the man
referred to as the “prince of art” – the imaginary characters
Florestan and Eusebius – was just the start. She had a direct line to
the essence of each of the eight movements, consistently making the
unobvious choice.

Time signature and note values became casual advice in the first
movement, “In the Evening,” whose gauzy left hand against a
crystalline right blended into a half-remembered summer twilight.
Phrases ended in question marks, or at least ellipses. Frantic,
sputtering, silent, thundering, the second movement managed to be
volatile without growing overwrought. The third, “Why?” was an
exercise in time suspension.

The sense of grandeur in the last movement wasn’t from the massing of
sound other pianists use, but from regal pacing and the space she put
around certain rhythms. By endowing the material with dignity,
Arghamanyan preserved Schumann’s own ambiguity over whether these are
wedding bells or a death knell.

The entire second half of the program was turned over to Rachmaninoff,
whose Opus 33 Études-Tableaux (Nos. 1-6) was dominated by a stunning
performance of the No. 6 in E Flat Major that highlighted, with
scherzo-like touch, perhaps the composer’s furthest outlier from
traditional tonality.

But the Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Opus 42, told us more about
Arghamanyan than any other piece on the program (which also included a
wonderfully detailed account of Bach’s Partita in C Minor, BWV 826).
The theme is a short one (not actually written by Corelli), and
manages to invoke a half dozen or so other Rachmaninoff works (a piano
concerto, the Paganini variations), and so the piece was a window into
Arghamanyan’s approach through a wide swath of material. You could
almost hear a cimbalom in the handling of a variation with Hungarian
harmonies.

Her extreme sensitivity to subtle voicings came through in
Rachmaninoff’s “Elégie in E Flat” from Morceaux de fantaisie, where
the melody moved to the bass while the soprano turned pale. The extent
of the player as a determining factor was even more evident in the
“Prelude in C Sharp Minor” from the same piece. With the liberties
taken by Arghamanyan, you might never have known how four-square those
opening chords look on paper. And if the agitated storm in the middle
section startled some, it struck me more as revelation than disregard
for any hovering specters.

From: A. Papazian