Author: Aram Torosian

Turkey-backed terrorists protest against leadership for not receiving salary for fighting in NK

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 20:12, 9 April, 2021

YEREVAN, APRIL 9, ARMENPRESS. The militants of ”Suleyman Shah” pro-Turkish terrorist group that fought against Artsakh in 2020 from the Azerbaijani side organized a protest in Afrin, demanding their salary which they have been waiting for a few months.

ARMENPRESS reports, citing ANFnews, they blame for that their commander Abu Hamsha, who, according to the militants, usurped the money received from their Turkish sponsors. The militants shared the video of their protest in a Telegram channel.

‘’We went to Nagorno Karabakh together with the Turkish state. We have victims. Commander of the brigade Abu Hamsha took our money and the money of the families of the victims. We even have no money for food. We don’t accept this’’, one of the militants said.

Numerous countries, including Russia, USA and France have confirmed that Turkey had deployed terrorist-mercenaries to Azerbaijan to fight against Armenians. The Armenian side arrested two terrorists during the war.




Coronavirus cases worldwide up 5% in past week

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 10:22, 7 April, 2021

YEREVAN, APRIL 7, ARMENPRESS. More than 4 million novel coronavirus cases were registered worldwide in the past week, which is 5% more than during the previous seven-day period, the World Health Organization (WHO) said a weekly bulletin released in Geneva on Wednesday, reports TASS.

Mortality increased by 11%, as over 71,000 deaths were registered in the reported period, according to the global organization’s figures.

Between March 29 and April 4, the global organization has been informed about 4,038,292 new cases all over the world, and 71,355 deaths. As of April 4, a total of 130,459,184 cases and 2,842,325 COVID-related deaths were reported worldwide.

The most noticeable growth in cases was registered in Southeast Asia (up 36%), Western Pacific (up 25%), and Eastern Mediterranean (up 10%).

Mortality increased in Southeast Asia (up 46%), North and South America (up 15%), Eastern Mediterranean (up 7%), Western Pacific (up 5%), Europe (up 2%), but at the same time declined by 20% in Africa.

In the past seven days, over 1.6 million people contracted the infection in Europe, over 24,000 died. The number of cases in North and South America increased by over 1.3 million in the reported period, while fatalities grew by 37,000. In Southeast Asia, doctors registered over 592,000 new cases of novel coronavirus, over 4,000 patients died.

India accounts for the majority of cases registered between March 29 and April 4 (513,000 cases), followed by Brazil (also over 513,000 new cases), the United States (over 444,000), Turkey (over 265,000), France (over 244,000), Poland (over 187,000), Italy (over 137,000), Germany (over 112,000), Ukraine (over 101,000), Argentina (over 82,000), Iran (over 73,000) and Russia (over 61,000).

Russia’s Humanitarian Response Center provides delivery of 145 tons of humanitarian cargo to Karvachar

Aram Torosian
Panorama, Armenia
April 7 2021

The Russian peacekeeping contingent continues to ensure the transit of goods between the territories of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) that fell under the control of Azerbaijan in November 2020.

To restore energy supply and water supply systems to social facilities and residential buildings, the eleventh Russian convoy of the Humanitarian Response Centre, consisting of 15 KamAZ military vehicles and escort vehicles, proceeded along the Stepanakert-Madagiz-Karvachar route and delivered 145 tons of cargo to the Karvachar (Kelbajar) region, including food, construction materials and equipment for the restoration of power supply systems.

In total, with the assistance of Russian peacekeepers, about 2,100 tons of cargo were transported in seven convoys, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday.

Assistance was rendered to the Azerbaijani side on the basis of the terms of the trilateral agreement between Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan dated November 9 last year.

President Armen Sarkissian receives Minister of Education Vahram Dumanyan

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 16:44, 5 April, 2021

YEREVAN, APRIL 5, ARMENPRESS. President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian received Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Vahram Dumanyan, the Presidential Office told Armenpress.

The minister reported the President on the situation and ongoing activities in the aforementioned sectors, as well as the development vision and programs.

President Sarkissian noted that the ministry is coordinating the most important sectors for the country’s future, each of which are highly important and require a major work. He stated that the system needs major attention and changes which should be exclusively directed for raising and developing the efficiency and competitiveness of governance.

The officials discussed the legislative package on Higher Education and Science which has been approved recently by the Parliament.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

Azerbaijani press: Armenia built so-called "church" in Jabrayil on illegal basis, says Israeli lawyer

Aram Torosian
POLITICS29 March 2021 14:10 (UTC+04:00)

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Mar.29

By Jani Babayeva – Trend:

The so-called “church” was built by Armenia in Azerbaijan’s Jabrayil district illegally, Israeli lawyer, an expert in international law and international politics, Mikhail Finkel told Trend.

Finkel made the speech commenting on Armenia’s groundless statements about committing “cultural crimes” in the Azerbaijani territories liberated from Armenian occupation, including the so-called “disappearance of the Armenian Church” in the Azerbaijani city of Jabrayil.

“It is very unpleasant when one of the parties to the conflict resorts to lies,” the expert noted.

“Unfortunately, it has already become a tradition that the Armenian side constantly resorts to lies. Now we are reading news about Jabrayil – a city where the Armenians never lived, which was occupied by them and in which any construction was completely illegal. There Armenia built something like a church. But in reality, this object was not a church, but was a place of religious worship for Armenian soldiers,” Finkel said.

According to the Israeli lawyer, it should be understood that Jabrayil, according to international law, is the Azerbaijani land, which was under occupation.

“The Armenian side keeps repeating about the alleged vandalism and destruction of the “church”. But for some reason does not mention that this building, which was not a church, was illegally built on the Azerbaijani lands occupied by Armenia,” the expert noted.

Only “surviving” Armenian church in Turkey’s Cappadocia in danger of collapsing (PHOTOS)

Aram Torosian
News.am, Armenia
April 3 2021
15:10, 03.04.2021

The Armenian Church located in Sivrihisar village of Guzelyurt district of Aksaray Province of Turkey and presumably built in the 5th or 6th century—and is now called Kizil—is constantly being destroyed by treasure hunters.

According to Akunq.net, the only “surviving” Armenian church in Cappadocia is constantly attacked by treasure hunters.

The World Monuments Fund has been put this church on its list of the 100 Most Endangered Sites in the world.


Governor of Armenia’s Tavush province dismissed

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 11:35, 1 April, 2021

YEREVAN, APRIL 1, ARMENPRESS. Governor of the Tavush province of Armenia Hayk Chobanyan has been relieved from the position.

The respective decision has been approved today at the Cabinet meeting.

According to some media reports, Hayk Chobanyan will be appointed Minister of High Technological Industry.

 

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

CIS foreign ministerial meeting kicks off in Moscow

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 12:52, 2 April, 2021

YEREVAN, APRIL 2, ARMENPRESS. The narrow format meeting of the foreign ministers of CIS countries has kicked off in Moscow, with Armenian FM Ara Aivazian in attendance, his spokesperson Anna Naghdalyan said.

Earlier on April 1, Aivazian had a meeting with Russian FM Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the CIS foreign ministerial council session.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

Legendary commander Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan dies aged 81

Aram Torosian
Public Radio of Armenia

Legendary military commander, Major General Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan passed away today aged 81.

Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan was the leader of the Armenian forces during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War and Armenia’s former Deputy Minister of Defense. 

Ter-Tadevosyan is best known as the commander of the operation of liberation of Shushi on May 8, 1992.

Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. After graduating from a high school in Tbilisi, he decided to become an officer. He attended the Baku Combined Arms Command School and later the Leningrad Military Academy of Rear Services and Transportation.

He served in Afghanistan where he earned the nickname “Mountain Fox.”

The President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Bako Sahakyan, awarded him with the Order of the Golden Eagle and the title of Hero of Artsakh on the 17th anniversary of the Liberation of Shushi in 2009.

Azerbaijanis destroy monument in Karabakh’s Shushi

Aram Torosian
News.am, Armenia
Azerbaijanis destroy monument in Karabakh’s Shushi
22:20, 30.03.2021

Azerbaijanis have destroyed in Shushi a monument to the victims of the Armenian Genocide, the Great Patriotic War and the first Artsakh war.

Telegram channels have released photos of the monument taken in 2020 and 2021 clearly showing that the Azerbaijanis continue to destroy Armenian cultural heritage.

In an interview with Armenian News-NEWS.am, Mayor of Shushi Artsvik Sargsyan said the monument was erected about a decade ago and added that the Azerbaijanis are currently eliminating everything Armenian in the territories that are currently under their control. Sargsyan also said the adversary has also destroyed the statues of two heroes of the USSR Nelson Stepanyan and Hovhannes Baghramyan, as well as the statue of Vazgen Sargsyan, and they also bombed an Armenian church.

The mayor added that entrance to Shushi is sometimes closed for Russian peacekeepers and that Azerbaijanis are currently destroying Armenian tombs on the road to Shushi in order to build a new structure.

Armenian News-NEWS.am also talked to Minister of Education, Science and Culture of Artsakh Lusine Gharakhanyan’s Advisor for Culture Melanya Balayan, who stated that, according to the ministry’s information, the monument is capitally damaged. She also informed that the ministry has addressed Russian peacekeepers, asking them to provide information about the state of the monuments. “The peacekeepers have promised to provide us with information,” she said.

This isn’t the first case of vandalism committed by Azerbaijan. Armenian News-NEWS.am had reported that the Azerbaijanis have desecrated the medieval Holy Savior Cathedral and the Green Church in Shushi. The adversary also continues to desecrate Armenian cross-stones and tombstones and has also zeroed the Zoravor Surb Astvatsatsin Armenian Church in Mekhakavan.