Author: Babajanian Karo

ARMENIENS-JERUSALEM
Le cimetière arménien de Jérusalem vandalisé la nuit dernière

L’Agence France Presse rapporte que des couvents et cimetières
arméniens de Jérusalem ont été vandalisés la nuit dernière. Des
reliefs représentant Jésus Christ et la Vierge Marie à l’entrée du
cimetière arménien ont subi des dégradations et tags en hébreu. Ces
mêmes inscriptions furent également observées sur les murs d’une
l’Eglise orthodoxe grecque Sainte Croix de Jérusalem. Des inscriptions
qui représentent la signature des extrémistes israéliens selon l’AFP.
Le Premier ministre israélien Benyamin Netanyahou vient de condamner
ces actes.

Krikor Amirzayan

jeudi 13 décembre 2012,
Krikor Amirzayan ©armenews.com

MMAmania.com
Dec 12 2012

‘Cheap’ Gegard Mousasi claims he’s never trained for fights before,
but is now ‘hungry’ and `motivated’ to compete in UFC

By Adam Guillen Jr.

If we are to believe Gegard Mousasi, the Armenian has never really
trained for a fight during his decade-long career up until his most
recent training camp in preparations for Mike Kyle on Jan 12, 2013.

Gegard Mousasi is widely considered to be one of the most talented
mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters in the sport today.
Amassing an impressive 32-3-2 record, collecting the DREAM light
heavyweight and Super Hulk Grand Prix titles to go along with the
Strikeforce 205-pound belt, “The Dreamcatcher” has proven he has the
chops to compete at any weight class.

He’s notched victories against some top competition such as Ronaldo
Souza, Mark Hunt, Ovince St. Preux, Denis Kang and Hector Lombard,
just to name a few and has only lost once in the last six years, a
decision loss to Muhammed Lawal in 2010.

Not bad, right?

Well, what if I were to tell you Mousasi defeated everyone (sans
Lawal) in his path and obtained all of those world titles with less
than stellar training methods and with no real coaches and sparring
partners? Would you believe me or tell me to take a hike?
Maybe you’ll believe Gegard himself, who revealed during his recent
appearance on “The MMA Hour” that he’s never really trained for a
fight before in the past due to the lack of motivation:

“I was overstrained, not motivated, not training well. I think that
had something to do with it. This year-layoff got me hungry again and
I’m training really good now. I think, it was good (the layoff), I’m
making it a positive thing. I was just fighting. I won the belt in
DREAM, I won the belt in Strikeforce, every fight was just a fight, it
wasn’t something special, it just was getting in the ring and
fighting. I didn’t have a lot of motivation the last couple of years,
but, I’m really excited to fight and with the idea after this fight
maybe I can go to the UFC, so that is very motivating and I am
training really well for this fight. Now, I have coaches and sparring
partners. I am doing now everything right. Maybe this sounds weird,
but, I don’t believe I ever trained for a fight. Now, every day I am
getting tired. I don’t want to go to training. Back then, I used to
run a little bit in the morning and do a little bit of sparring and
when I would get tired, I would relax. Now, I have people that are
pushing me every day and now I do feel like I am preparing for a
fight. I f I go into this fight like how I am training now, I don’t
see how I can lose. I’m finally feeling that I finally training for a
fight. I didn’t know MMA fighting, was so difficult, training for a
fight.”

Having not competed in 2012 because of injuries, Gegard wasn’t exactly
struggling which would have forced him to make such a radical change.
In fact, he is on a four fight win streak with a draw against Keith
Jardine sandwiched in between.
He simply wasn’t content with his output.

Jokingly saying he was “cheap,” and didn’t want to dish the money to
pay for real coaches and sparring partners early in his career,
Mousasi warns he is now a more dangerous fighter than he ever was
before.

A Mousasi who is actually training can be bad news for Mike Kyle on
Jan 12, 2013 and for the rest of the Ultimate Fighting Championship
(UFC) roster once he makes the eventual switch. A roster which
includes Alexander Gustafsson, whom Mousasi says he’d love to fight in
the Octagon first, now that he’s defeated Mauricio Rua, whom he had
his eye on, previously.

NZ Week, New Zealand
Dec 12 2012

Armenia, FAO sign agreement to eliminate outdated pesticides

Souce:Xinhua Publish By Thomas Whittle

YEREVAN, Dec. 11 – Armenia and the UN Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) signed an agreement Tuesday to initiate a project
aimed at eliminating outdated pesticides.

The deal was inked during a meeting between Agricultural Minister
Sergo Karapetyan and newly-appointed FAO Deputy Head of the Regional
Delegation Antonio Alonzi.

Karapetyan congratulated Alonzi on his recent appointment and reviewed
bilateral cooperation between Armenia and the FAO during the past two
years.

The minister also proposed major areas for further cooperation,
including establishment of agricultural cooperatives, targeted use of
water resources, and pomiculture, among others.

Mediamax News Agency, Armenia
Dec 12 2012

Tsarukyan’s decision can be considered in “personal context” as well,
says PAP spokesman

Yerevan/Mediamax/. “Prosperous Armenia” party will participate in
upcoming presidential elections as “observer” and “inspector of
elections”.

PAP spokesman Tigran Urikhanyan said this to Mediamax’s correspondent.

“The PAP team and leader have been stating since the foundation of the
party that they will do their best to achieve quality changes and any
position or post can’t be a self-goal for us”, he said.

Commenting on PAP leader Gagik Tsarukyan’s decision not to run for
presidency, Tigran Urikhanyan noted that it can be considered in `the
context of personal decision’ as well. He didn’t go into details
especially what he meant.

According to him, `as a united team, the PAP members accept and
respect Gagik Tsarukyan’s decision’.

Armenian Troops Will Stay in Afghanistan Longer

Politics – Wednesday, 12 December 2012, 17:25

The term of the Armenian troops in the ISAF Afghanistan will be
extended till 31 December 2014. This change is foreseen under the
extension of the agreement regulating legal matters with NATO relating
to the participation of the Republic of Armenia forces in the ISAF. It
has been included in the agenda of the extraordinary meeting of
parliament on December 17. On December 11 the Constitutional Court
confirmed that the obligations set out in the agreement are in line
with the RA Constitution. Since February 2010 one platoon of the RA
Armed Forces has been under the ISAF Northern Command which provides
security of the airport of Kunduz. The number of Armenian peacemakers
seconded to Afghanistan in 2011 has been increased to 121. 40
contractors are on a mission in Kunduz, 81 defend the airport of
Mazari-Sharif and the military base of the assistance forces.

Zatik Children’s Home to close down

07:54 PM | TODAY | SOCIAL

Yerevan-based Zatik Children’s Home will close down soon. For 19
years, the centre has housed orphaned and beggar children of the
Armenian capital.

Director of the children’s home Ashot Mnatsakanyan says the orphanage
opened when Armenia and its people were living through hard times:
people passed through many ordeals and survived a devastating
earthquake, war and blockade. There were numerous beggar and orphan
children in the streets in those days.

Mr Mnatsakanyan says the closure of the children’s home is an
imperative today. the building will be transferred to an alternative
structure.

The Way Opens For Robert Kocharyan

HAKOB BADALYAN
19:06 12/12/2012
Story from Lragir.am News:

Gagik Tsarukyan’s withdrawal from the presidential election seems to
have closed the chapter of the result of the election 2013. However,
in a medium-term and long-term perspective it leads to something
interesting – Robert Kocharyan’s political way will open.

The withdrawal of Tsarukyan who used to say that he has half a million
voters and is ready to lose his property actually closed his epoch in
the political life of Armenia. At the same time, Vartan Oskanian’s
epoch is also about to end while it barely started. The ex-foreign
minister has a chance to change the situation through abrupt moves and
enhance his political viability but one doubts that he will take those
steps.

Now it is Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s turn. Either he will run in the
presidential election or provide a reason to withdraw. In both cases
Ter-Petrosyan will have performed the last act of his second
appearance. In one case the act will proceed faster that in the other
case. Thus Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s epoch will end as well.

This is what Robert Kocharyan is waiting for. After Tsarukyan,
Oskanian and Ter-Petrosyan there will not be a second opinion that
only he can return and change the situation. Change is used in a
relative sense but it is also clear what public perception will be if
the current social and economic situation and moral and psychological
atmosphere continues.

>From this point of view, Robert Kocharyan will perhaps try to push
Ter-Petrosyan to run in the election but not through explicit
statements. An intention of shadow support to him may be circulated.
If Ter-Petrosyan sees no alternative to not running in the election,
this intention will favor him by mitigating the failure of the last
year and pretending as if Tsarukyan, Oskanian and Kocharyan will
support him tacitly.

Furthermore, for the majority of the society with mentality and
psychology of the soviet period tacit support is more eloquent than
the empty shop window.

The current process will lead to the removal of stones out of Robert
Kocharyan’s return unless Armenia has a breakthrough, a large-scale
dynamic process of social, civil and political modernization. In
addition, those stones are intentionally or intentionally leaving his
way one after the other.

This is not to toll horror, and Kocharyan is not the problem. If the
alternative will again have to be the return, it will be just another
excuse for past mistakes, and future will never be built again. Such
is the nature of alternative, independent from the names that are
carrying it, especially in Armenia which has no political culture and
social and state traditions.

Gabala pullout won’t affect Russia’s missile defense sector – expert

December 12, 2012 – 14:07 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Russia’s pull out from Gabala radar station is an
important indicator of the Moscow-Baku political relations, an expert
said.
`It’s no secret that Russia’s lease of the Azeri station had no so
much military and technical as political motivation,’ Andrey Areshev
told PanARMENIAN.Net
`However, Russia’s pullout won’t have negative effects on the
country’s capacity in missile defense sector, rather, triggering a
further cooling in relations with Azerbaijan,’ the expert concluded.

`When the Book Finds the Artist’ concludes the events dedicated to
500th anniversary of Armenian printing
15:49 12.12.2012

Alisa Gevorgyan
`Radiolur’

An exhibition titled `When the Book Finds the Artist’ opened at
TumanyanMuseum today. The exhibition is a joint project of the five
large cultural establishments – the Tumanyan Museum, the National Art
Gallery of Armenia, the Charents House-Museum, the Armenian National
Library and the Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition concludes the
events dedicated to the 500th anniversary of Armenian printing.
President Serzh Sargsyan attended the solemn opening ceremony.

A number of events organized in Armenia and throughout the world
presented the Armenian book with its 500-year-old traditions.

The first part of the exhibition is dedicated to the periodic press
and illustrations of the literary works from 1880 to 1910. Works by
Gevorg Bashinjaghyan, Vardges Surenyants, Alexander Tsaturyan and
Yeghishe Tadevosyan are on display. In 1920 the decoration of Armenian
books is connected with the name of Charents, who then headed the
Literature Department of State Publishing House of Armenia.

The exhibition `When the Book Finds the Artist’ marks the end of the
events dedicated to the 500th anniversary of Armenian printing, but
Yerevan will hold the title of World Book Capital 2012 until April
2013.

Armenia, IBM Company reach an agreement on cooperation

15:02 12.12.2012

The delegation headed by Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan
visited the headquarters of the IBM Company in the Silicon Valley. An
agreement was reached with the IBM to set up a joint task force to
study the opportunities, potential and perspectives of cooperation.

IBM representatives will visit Armenia to familiarize with the
activity of the IT companies.

The task force will present the results of the study by the end of the
first quarter of 2013, after which the Armenian Government and the IBM
Company will consider an agreement on the implementation of future
joint programs.

The IBM is the leader in the world with the number of patented
inventions not only in the IT sphere, but also in different fields of
the fundamental science.