8 Years Pass Since Murder Of Armenian Officer By Azerbaijani Militar

8 YEARS PASS SINCE MURDER OF ARMENIAN OFFICER BY AZERBAIJANI MILITARY MEMBER

NEWS.AM
February 19, 2012 | 18:15

YEREVAN. – Sunday, February 19, 2012 marks the eight anniversary of
the Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan’s killing by the Azerbaijani
military member, Ramil Safarov.

The murder had taken place in Budapest, where two Armenian military
servicemen were taking part in an English-language course organized
by NATO’s Partnership for Peace program.

In 2006, the Budapest court sentenced the Azerbaijani killer to life
in prison, and without a chance for pardon for thirty years. And the
reason for the brutal murder was simply that Margaryan was Armenian.

Eight years have passed since this shameful murder, yet Azerbaijan
continues its attempts to return its “hero” back to the homeland.

During her visit to Armenia, Hungary’s then-FM Kinga Goncz had noted
that Safarov could be returned to Azerbaijan, but Hungary had no such
obligation. “The key issue is whether Safarov’s life sentence will
continue to be applied in Azerbaijan,” she had said.

And in August 2011, when Ramil Safarov turned 34, several Azerbaijani
media even congratulated him, and considered him a “true fighter,”
a “heroic son of Azerbaijan,” etc.

De La Faiblesse De Celebres Critiques, Par Sevane Garibian

DE LA FAIBLESSE DE CELEBRES CRITIQUES, PAR SEVANE GARIBIAN
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armenews.com
lundi 20 fevrier 2012

L’adoption au Senat, ce 23 janvier, de la proposition de loi visant
a reprimer le negationnisme, se situe au c~ur d’un debat qui divise
l’opinion depuis 2005. Il ne sera pas question de revenir ici sur la
confusion systematiquement faite par une majorite d’auteurs entre les
distinctes “lois memorielles” denoncees par nombre d’historiens et
apprehendees, en bloc, sous une meme categorie (dont la denomination
meme est discutable), presupposant ainsi a tort qu’elles aient toutes
une nature, une fonction et un objet identiques. Il ne sera pas non
plus question aujourd’hui de repondre a la critique faite par les
detracteurs desdites lois, selon laquelle elles mettraient en peril la
liberte d’expression et la liberte de la recherche en instaurant une
“verite officielle”. J’ai eu l’occasion de m’exprimer sur ces deux
points dans le passe, tant dans des publications academiques que
dans la presse. Il s’agira cette fois de s’interroger, non pas sur
les critiques strictement juridiques suscitees par l’adoption d’un
texte penalisant le negationnisme, mais plutôt sur celles liees a la
politique juridique : ceci en echo a une serie d’arguments que l’on
a pu lire recemment et qui consistent a demontrer que si une telle
penalisation serait justifiee dans le cas du genocide du peuple juif,
elle ne le serait pas dans les autres – notamment dans le cas du
genocide des Armeniens.

Premièrement, dit-on, la France n’aurait rien a faire dans cette
Histoire qui ne concerne “que” les Armeniens et les Turcs, des
“etrangers”. Au-dela meme du fait que la loi en question n’ait pas
pour objet la contestation du seul genocide des Armeniens (et c’est
un merite), ou encore qu’une telle affirmation constitue un non-sens
juridique, par exemple de par la confusion qu’elle presuppose entre
le genocide commis dans l’Empire ottoman et sa negation par ou a
l’encontre de citoyens francais sur le territoire national, c’est
oublier notamment trois choses que nous disent, precisement, les
sources primaires et les travaux historiques. D’abord, le rôle actif
et important de la France dans le traitement de la question d’Orient
dès le XIXe siècle, dont le mouvement armenophile francais se fera
l’echo avec la mobilisation des grandes figures telles que Jaurès,
Clemenceau, France ou Peguy. Ensuite, son positionnement clair, aux
côtes de la Grande-Bretagne et de la Russie, dans la condamnation des
“crimes contre l’humanite et la civilisation” commis par la Turquie
(Declaration alliee du 24 mai 1915 qui marque, on l’oublie souvent, la
première apparition officielle du concept de crime contre l’humanite)
; puis, encore, dans le cadre de la Conference de Paix de Paris de 1919
en faveur de la mise en place d’une juridiction internationale speciale
pour le jugement des responsables des massacres des Armeniens. Les
travaux de 1919 donneront lieu au traite de Sèvres de 1920 qui prevoit
expressement l’elaboration d’une telle juridiction (article 230)
– une première historique – mais qui se verra annule par le traite
de Lausanne de 1923 signe entre la Turquie kemaliste et les Allies,
au nom de la Realpolitik internationale.

Deuxièmement, certains affirment que les elus se situent dans une
perspective “anachronique”, “donc a-historique”, en jugeant “a l’aune
de definitions juridiques recentes les exactions du passe”. La encore,
c’est oublier au moins deux choses. En premier lieu, aucun juriste
ni historien serieux ne daignerait, fort heureusement, remettre en
question l’existence du genocide, en tant que tel, du peuple juif,
alors meme que le concept fut cree par Raphael Lemkin en 1944, puis
juridiquement consacre en 1948, ne pouvant ainsi faire l’objet de
l’Acte d’accusation, ni a fortiori du jugement, a Nuremberg.

D’ailleurs, tant ce jugement international pour crimes contre
l’humanite, que les procès francais en la matière, n’ont ete possibles
qu’au prix de l’application retroactive d’un nouveau droit elabore au
lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale – le concept de crime contre
l’humanite, s’il apparu officiellement en 1915, n’etant juridiquement
defini qu’en 1945 par les Allies. En second lieu, c’est justement
l’Histoire qui nous enseigne que Lemkin cree le mot “genocide” pour
designer des politiques d’extermination telles que celles commises
a l’encontre des Armeniens et des Juifs. L’auteur en temoigne lui-meme.

On voit mal en quoi il serait anachronique d’utiliser un concept qui
rende compte des realites a l’origine de sa propre creation.

Troisièmement, on a pu lire que ce qui justifie la loi Gayssot de
1990 est le fait qu’elle se refère a des actions criminelles ayant
fait l’objet de decisions judiciaires dotees de “l’autorite de la
chose jugee” en France, alors que le genocide des Armeniens reste
quant a lui un crime impuni. Il serait donc utile, a-t-on ajoute,
de creer une commission d’historiens “designee par l’Unesco a
l’initiative de la France”. Un tel argument est deconcertant a
plus d’un titre. D’abord, parce qu’il omet a la fois les raisons,
rappelees plus haut, de l’echec de la mise en place de la juridiction
internationale initialement prevue a cette effet, et le lien direct
entre cette impunite subie et l’ampleur du negationnisme d’Etat,
unique en son genre, politiquement organise depuis. L’impunite est
ici utilisee comme la justification d’une nouvelle “mise hors la
loi” des victimes et de leurs familles, au lieu d’etre, a l’inverse,
apprehendee comme une raison de plus de remedier au problème de la
negation, ou au moins le penser, dans un contexte mondial de lutte
contre l’impunite et de prevention des crimes internationaux les plus
graves. Ensuite, de deux choses l’une : ou bien l’on insinue que seule
la parole du juge peut garantir la verite des faits (sur la base de
la presomption qui, bien que discutable, constitue de jure l’un des
effets de ladite “autorite de la chose jugee”), auquel cas a quoi
bon creer une commission d’historiens ? ; ou bien alors on accepte de
donner a juste titre au travail des historiens la valeur qu’il merite,
auquel cas pourquoi renvoyer a la necessite d’une sorte de certificat
supplementaire de veracite par le juge ? Enfin, rien dans les travaux
preparatoires de la loi Gayssot ne permet d’affirmer que l’objet de
ce texte fut de reprimer la contestation d’une decision de justice.

Par ailleurs, la reference a Nuremberg dans le texte de 1990 est dû a
une raison pratique et circonstancielle : les incriminations de crime
contre l’humanite et de genocide n’existaient pas a l’epoque dans
le droit francais ; elles seront introduites dans le Code penal lors
de la reforme de 1994. C’est cette evolution de l’arsenal juridique,
tout comme celle de la realite du phenomène negationniste en France,
qu’il s’agit de prendre desormais en compte. Pour terminer, l’argument
de l’impunite est partiellement faux, puisqu’un certain nombre de
responsables du genocide des Armeniens ont ete condamnes lors de
procès organises en Turquie (1919-1920), avant qu’en 1921 le regime
kemaliste n’abolisse les juridictions competentes et ne relâche
les responsables n’ayant pas deja fui. Les archives de ces procès
offrent une documentation d’une grande richesse, rassemblant les
preuves tant de l’intention d’exterminer la population armenienne
dans son integralite, que du plan concerte elabore a cet effet par
le Gouvernement jeune-turc1.

Sortons donc des clivages. Sortons du clivage entre juristes
et historiens en donnant plus de credit au travail, distinct et
complementaire, des uns et des autres. Pourquoi, en definitive,
ne pas laisser le juge constitutionnel exercer le cas echeant sa
competence et decider de la constitutionnalite ou non d’un texte
reprimant le negationnisme, hors de toute hierarchisation entre
les genocides ou leur contestation ? Inutile que des historiens
s’arrogent arbitrairement la competence d’affirmer avec certitude une
telle inconstitutionnalite, non etablie en l’etat des jurisprudences
nationale et europeenne des droits de l’homme. Pourquoi par ailleurs
ne pas valoriser et utiliser la multitude de travaux historiques
deja existants et en constant enrichissement, comme en attestent
regulièrement tant de publications serieuses ? Inutile d’appeler
a la creation de “commissions d’historiens”, comme si on partait
de rien, comme si tout etait encore a faire, comme s’il fallait,
une fois de plus, repondre a l’injonction de la preuve. Sortons du
clivage, tout aussi sterile, entre memoires genocidaires, alimente,
contrairement aux dires de certains, moins par la loi qui adapte le
droit a la realite, que par la teneur des arguments rappeles ici.

Au sortir des clivages, on s’accordera peut-etre sur le fait que
la question de fond est surtout celle de savoir quel est exactement
l’objectif vise ; et, a defaut de recours possible a l’action civile
depuis une jurisprudence de 2005 de la Cour de cassation, si la
penalisation des propos niant l’existence de tout genocide reconnu
est un outil approprie et efficace, au regard de cet objectif. Le
legislateur s’est prononce sur la question ; et les menaces et methodes
politiques utilisees par la Turquie dans ce contexte sont a la mesure
de son importance. La liberte de la recherche et de la pensee est
mise a mal, oui. Par l’ ” industrie de la negation ” (Taner Akcam),
qui transforme l’Histoire en ideologie.

Sevane Garibian Docteure en Droit Enseignant-chercheur aux Universites
de Genève et de Neuchâtel Auteure de Le crime contre l’humanite
au regard des principes fondateurs de l’Etat moderne. Naissance et
consecration d’un concept (LGDJ, Schulthess, Bruylant, 2009)

Former Georgian MP Charged With Coup Attempt Detained On Armenian-Ge

FORMER GEORGIAN MP CHARGED WITH COUP ATTEMPT DETAINED ON ARMENIAN-GEORGIAN BORDER

NEWS.AM
February 20, 2012 | 13:24

TBILISI. – Former MP was detained while attempting to cross
Armenian-Georgian border-line, Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs
informs.

According to the report, Valery Gelbakhiani was detained on Monday. He
has been on wanted list since February 2008 after he was charged with
coup attempt.

Valery Gelbakhiani was the head of headquarters of presidential
candidate Badri Patarkatsishvili.

Gelbakhiani fled the state after criminal proceedings were instigated
against him in 2008, Novosti-Gruziya reports. He circulated a letter
earlier this year asking security guarantees to visit his sick mother.

Congressmen To President: Your Commitment To Rule Of Law In Armenia

CONGRESSMEN TO PRESIDENT: YOUR COMMITMENT TO RULE OF LAW IN ARMENIA CAN BE EXAMPLE FOR MANY OTHERS

Panorama.am
20/02/2012

President Serzh Sargsyan received on Sunday delegation of the US
Congressmen, who have arrived to Armenia from the US on route to
Afghanistan.

At the dinner in honor of the Congressmen, President Serzh Sargsyan
noted that he attaches the utmost importance to the contacts with the
friends of Armenia in Congress whose support has had its considerable
impact on the establishment and development of democracy in Armenia
as well as on the preservation of stability in our region. “Taking
this opportunity, I would like to express gratitude to you all for
making possible financial, humanitarian and technical assistance to
Armenia from day one of our independence.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic
relations between Armenia and the United States, and I am glad that
we are celebrating this jubilee on the highest level,” President
Serzh Sargsyan said.

The Congressmen stressed the importance of the development of the
US-Armenia relations. Your commitment to human rights, democracy and
the rule of law in Armenia can be an example for many, many others,”
Congressman David Dreier said.

At the meeting discussed was a wide range of issues pertinent to
the development and deepening of the Armenian-American relations
and stressed was the importance of strengthening bilateral and
multilateral cooperation.

RPA MP Rates High Conduction Of International Conference Dedicated T

RPA MP RATES HIGH CONDUCTION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE DEDICATED TO KARABAKH’S INDEPENDENCE

ARMENPRESS
February 20, 2011
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 20, ARMENPRESS: The international conference
dedicated to the independence of Nagorno Karabakh will have a great
resonance in the international arena, secretary of the RPA faction
Gagik Melikyan said today. “The reports and speeches voiced in the
event where registering that the independence of Nagorno Karabakh is
irreversible. No analyst or expert mention a norm which could suspend
the international recognition of the NK,” the MP said. Melikyan noted
certain experts stressed that international experts were demanding
to keep the OSCE Minsk Group and mentioned that the NK too should
participate in the talks. “There is one nation and two states. Being
a small state, Nagorno Karabakh very often decides the agenda of the
region,” the MP stressed.

All the experts present at the international conference noted that
Nagorno Karabakh is the most democratic state in the region. It has
many times been stressed by the EU experts as well.

Azerbaijani cinemas cancel Russian war movie

Azerbaijani cinemas cancel Russian war movie
Februray 18, 2012

[Summary: In spite of their project being 88% government funded,
producers say “August. Eight” is not political. Commentators in
Georgia call it pro-Kremlin and criticize the portrayal of Georgians
as aggressors.]

TBILISI, DFWatch – Just days before the premiere, two cinemas in
Azerbaijan have decided not to show a new Russian movie set during the
2008 Russia-Georgia war.

Much of the new movie `August. Eight’ was shot in Abkhazia and South
Ossetia and the backdrop to the story is the war as seen from the
Russian side of events, but director Dzhanik Fayziev rejects that it
is a political film.

21 February is the world premiere of `August. Eight’. Before its
release in Baku, a campaign was started against it on Facebook driven
by Georgian-Azerbaijani solidarity regarding breakaway areas. Russia
does not support Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh.

The Facebook campaign was successful and lead Park Cinema to pull the
film off its schedule, as well as recalling all advertisement
material. Now also Azerbaijan Cinema has followed suit.

`August. Eight’ has been criticized as Kremlin propaganda by
commentators in Georgia; it portrays Georgia as the aggressor and
filming took place inside both of Georgia’s disputed regions. Some
scenes were filmed on an elaborate set built in Sukhumi.

Filming took place between March and August 2011. In addition to
Sukhumi and Tskhinvali, scenes were also filmed at spots around the
North Caucasus, including the city Tkuarchal, the villages Ursdon and
Nar, along the Georgian military highway and in the Darial gorge. A
trailer was released onto the internet.

Fantasy. 33 out of 120 minutes is a parallel story line which takes
place in the imagination of a young boy, made by computer generated
imagery. The script is written by Michael Lerner and based on a fiairy
tale by Danish writer H.C. Andersen.

The project was heavily supported by the Russian government. Apart
from being almost entirely financed by the state film fund – 16.7
million out of its total production cost of 19 million US dollars –
actors also received training at a Russian Ministry of Internal
Affairs base.

But director Fayziev maintains that it is not political, but part love
story, part fantasy. Some of the story is based on Danish writer H.C.
Andersen’s fairy tale The Snow Queen. It was developed into a film
script by the American Michael Alan Lerner, an experienced war
reporter who in 2004 made a film called `Deadlines’ about the
difficulty of reporting the truth in times of conflict, set in the
Beirut war in 1983.

The fantasy parts of `August. Eight’ take place inside a little boy’s
mind, made by computer generated imagery which takes up 33 out of the
film’s 120 minutes. The rest is about his mother, played by Svetlana
Ivanova, who comes after him to Tskhinvali to save him after the war
breaks out.

This is the third film made with the 2008 South Ossetia war as a
backdrop. The Russian-made `War 08.08.08′ was released only three
months after the war and perceived as heavily politicized. `5 Days of
August’ of last year was a Hollywood film with Georgian scriptwriter
and co-producer. It was not financed by the Georgian government except
in the early stages, but is widely perceived as telling the story of
the war from President Mikheil Saakashvili’s point of view. It starred
Andy Garcia and had a budget of 12 million US dollars. `August. Eight’
cost 19 million dollars to make.

http://dfwatch.net/azerbaijani-cinemas-cancel-russian-war-movie-29074

Azerbaijan violates ceasefire 250 times

Azerbaijan violates ceasefire 250 times

04:32 pm | Today | Official

Over 250 instances of ceasefire violation by Azerbaijani armed forces
were registered at the contact line between Nagorno Karabakh and
Azerbaijani armed forces from February 12 to 18.

During the reporting period, Azerbaijan fired over 1000 shots from
various caliber weapons.

Despite Azeri army’s aggressive actions, NKR armed forces refrained
from retaliatory measure an, NKR Defense Army’s press service
reported.

http://www.a1plus.am/en/official/2012/02/18/board

French president candidate confirmed his support for Genocide bill

French president candidate confirmed his support for Genocide bill

news.am
February 19, 2012 | 01:20

French president candidate Francois Hollande from the Socialist Party
is ready to vote for the bill criminalizing denial of Armenian
Genocide at any time, he told the French Marianne daily, Nouvelles
d`Armenie informs.

Hoolande announced that the Socialists are supporting the recognition
of the Armenian Genocide.

`I voted for the text and I would vote again today,’ he said.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, on January 23 the French
Senate adopted the law of criminalizing denial of the Armenian
Genocide. The French National Assembly had adopted the genocide bill
on December 22.

According to the law, denying genocides, including the Armenian
genocide will be punished with 1 year of imprisonment and 45,000
fine.

However, the opponents of the law sent their appeal to France’s
Constitutional Council. The council will publish its decision soon.

Alan Hovhaness Works: Armenian Rhapsodies 1-3

Audiophile Audition
Feb 17 2012

ALAN HOVHANESS Works: Armenian Rhapsodies 1-3;

Song of the Sea; Sop. Sax Concerto; Exile Sym. – BMOP/sound
Not Hovhaness at his best, but it’s interesting to hear earlier works
by this incredibly prolific composer.

ALAN HOVHANESS: Armenian Rhapsody No. 1, Op. 45; Song of the Sea;
Armenian Rhapsody No. 2, Op. 51; Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and
Strings, Op. 344; Armenian Rhapsody No. 3, Op. 189; Symphony No. 1,
Op. 17 No. 2 `Exile’ – John McDonald, piano / Kenneth Radnofsky,
soprano sax / Boston Modern Orch. Project / Gil Rose – BMOP/sound 1020
[Distr. by Albany], 67:39 ***½:

When a composer has written well over 500 works, one can assume that
there will be some unevenness in his production. Despite the fact that
a number of Alan Hovhaness’s pieces have entered the standard
repertoire and that recording projects turn up interesting,
little-heard music by the composer on a regular basis, Hovhaness’s
production is indeed uneven. Remarkably, those 500 works are just the
tip of the musical iceberg. Hovhaness destroyed many, perhaps hundreds
or even a thousand, of his earliest compositions when he turned his
attention increasingly to Eastern music, including that of India and
Armenia, for which he had a natural sympathy since his father was
Armenian. (Hovhaness was born Alan Scott Vaness Chakmakjian but
changed his name probably to mask his heritage, just as Walter Piston
and Paul Creston changed their Italian surnames at a time in America
when an ethnic name wasn’t a ticket to career success.) Along with his
penchant for Eastern music and its sound world came an increasing
mysticism and inwardness through which Hovhaness hoped to `inspire all
mankind with a new heroism and spiritual nobility.’

Given the destruction of so much of his earliest work, it’s remarkable
that Song of the Sea, a tone poem for piano and strings from 1933,
survived. Maybe Hovhaness had a sentimental attachment to the piece
since he was the soloist in the first performance in Boston that year.
It has few of the individual touches that we associate with the
composer, so unlike the other works on this disc, it has mostly
curiosity value. Not that the remainder of the compositions represent
Hovhaness at his most refined, however. The First Romanian Rhapsody,
with its punchy rhythms and percussion writing, is a winning little
piece though the other two Rhapsodies have less to offer.

It’s fascinating to hear Hovhaness’s First Symphony, one of
sixty-seven from his pen – fascinating especially since it was written
not too many years after Song of the Sea and yet has some of the
hallmarks of Hovhaness’s mature style: the skittering string figures
backed by near-static modal declamations from the brass. It doesn’t
have the sheer memorability of the Second Symphony, Mysterious
Mountain, but at least Hovhaness was on the right track in his Exile
Symphony. The work pays tribute to the victims of the Armenian
Massacre under the Ottoman Turks during World War I. It rises from a
somber opening movement to an epic and triumphant finale. Premiered by
Stokowski in 1943, it was the first of a number of premieres given by
Stokowski, climaxing with Mysterious Mountain, which the conductor
debuted with his Houston Symphony Orchestra in 1955.

The Concerto for Soprano Saxophone is a relatively late work (1980) in
which Hovhaness `harkens back to his earliest musical idiom – that from
the 1930s.’ It’s dominated by one of Hovhaness’s earliest enthusiasms,
for contrapuntal writing, which he employs in a mostly light and
light-textured work that’s conventionally tuneful in the manner of
Song of the Sea. The slow movement, built on dance rhythms, is
especially light-hearted; one critic I’ve read likens the up-tempo
middle section to English music hall fare. The finale, entitled `Let
the Living and Celestial Sing,’ returns to Hovhaness’s more exalted,
mystical style. It’s an odd amalgam of different influences; even the
choice of the soprano saxophone, more associated with the dance hall
than the concert hall, is an odd choice. The sax sounds right for the
slow movement, but in the modal music of the finale, it sounds
strangely out of place, as if Hovhaness is trying, not very
successfully, to turn it into some Middle Eastern folk instrument,
maybe a cross between the mellow duduk and the strident zuma. Or maybe
that’s not his intention at all. At any rate, for me this is far from
Hovhaness’s best.

I’d have to say that none of this music represents the essential
Hovhaness, as interesting as it is to hear some of his earliest
surviving tributes to his Armenian roots. The playing by the dedicated
members of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and saxophonist Kenneth
Radnofsky can’t be faulted, however. They receive pretty good
recordings in two different locales, though the recordings could have
benefited from a bit more depth and transparency. Still, for Hovhaness
enthusiasts and for those curious about the earlier works in his
canon, this is an enterprise worth exploring.

– Lee Passarella

http://audaud.com/2012/02/alan-hovhaness-works-armenian-rhapsodies-1-3-song-of-the-sea-sop-sax-concerto-exile-sym-bmopsound/

Bites Nearby: Armenian Market and Bakery

Patch.com
Feb 18 2012

Bites Nearby: Armenian Market and Bakery

An Armenian market with a twist or two: an eat-in cafe and its
location off Arsenal Street in Watertown.

What can another Armenian-Middle Eastern market do differently in
Watertown, which already has at least four of them? Two answers: a
location in a different part of town, at 23 Elm St., just off Arsenal
Street and an eat-in cafe serving the classic Armenian savory pies,
pizzas and sandwiches, as well as the region’s famous pastries.

What to eat: Any of the Armenian specialties, especially the lahmajun
(a snack-like, thin-crust pizza with meat but no cheese) and shawarma
(a meat-filled wrap). Although many of the most-popular pies have meat
in them, there are also ones with cheeses, eggplant, spinach and
spices. There’s a soup-of-the-day, such as lentil. The pastries are
worth sampling, too, with their tasty combination of nuts, honey and
flaky pastry.

The vibe: Friendly and busy. On sunny, warm days, you might consider
getting food to take out and eating in one of the nearby large parks
across Arsenal Street or a few blocks away on Arlington Street.

Cool factor no. 1: Since it’s a new establishment, the staff are eager
to please, so you aren not imposing on them by asking what’s a “boreg”
(a cheese-filled savory pastry) or a “maneesh” (a vegetarian-like
pizza with thyme, spices and sesame seed).

Cool factor no. 2: The place is conveniently next door to the
Watertown Mall and across from the Arsenal Mall, on a small side
street and there’s off-street parking too.

http://waltham.patch.com/articles/bites-nearby-armenian-market-and-bakery