Author: Badalian Vardan

news.am, Armenia
Aug 13 2011

Armenian Community of Argentina marked Ancient Armenian New Year

August 14, 2011 | 01:20

BUENOS AIRES. – Armenian community of Argentina celebrated the Ancient
Armenian new year, officially marked in the Republic of Armenia as a
day of national identity, reports Diario época.

August 11 or Navasard 1 is the day of the first month of the ancient
calendar – commemorates the battle that took place in 2493 BC on the
shores of Lake Van, in the south of Van city, between two legendary
heroes Bel, king of Babylon (Nimrod in the Bible), and Hayk, the first
king of Armenia, the grandson of Japheth and great grandson of Noah.
Hayk defeated Bel, thus setting the first independence of Armenia.

The celebration began 20 hours after the signal of the ritual horn
(pogh) in Siranush hall of Armenian Center of Argentina of the
Archbishop of the Armenian Church. The celebration was followed by a
traditional ceremony of blessing grape and wheat.

news.am, Armenia
Aug 13 2011

Cosmetic nose surgery costs $1000 in Armenia

August 13, 2011 | 14:46

YEREVAN. – Plastic surgery of nose in Armenia costs about $800-1000,
which is the cheapest in the region providing high quality, Chairman
of the Armenian Association of Plastic Surgeons Armen Hovhannisyan
told the journalists on Saturday.

`People of 18-35, who want to get rid of physiological complexes,
mainly turn to plastic surgeons. However, parents also turn to doctors
if their newborn baby has physical defect. Such operations are done
from the fourth month. People mainly make operations of nose, breast,
lips, ears and facial skin stretching,’ Hovhannisyan told.

The number of men turning to the plastic surgeons has recently
increased compared to women, told another plastic surgeon Gnel
Ananyan.

People are scrupulously examined before the operation, and are told to
follow strongly all the prescriptions after the operation period.

Association of Armenian plastic surgeons was founded in 2005.

news.am, Armenia
Aug 13 2011

Future generations will be proud of Armenian builders and architects – PM

August 13, 2011 | 21:26

YEREVAN. – The works of Armenian builders and architects have an
important spiritual value, as evidenced by churches and monuments that
we have today. The beautiful architectural structures scattered
throughout the world prove the talent of Armenian people, said
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan at the ceremony held on the
occasion of Builder’s Day at Armenian National Museum-Institute of
architecture on Saturday.

Congratulating the present architects and builders on their
professional holiday, the PM said that the holiday has a special
meaning: Armenian builders and architects play a key role in the
history of the Armenian people as carriers of most important national
characteristics.

“This commitment is reflected in the finest architectural works, which
we have inherited. Armenian architects and builders have provided and
ensured the continuity of the Armenianness for centuries,” said Tigran
Sargsyan.

news.am, Armenia
Aug 13 2011

Four Armenian students arrested in Georgia

August 13, 2011 | 15:08

TBILISI. – Four students of Armenian State Agricultural University are
in temporary detention facility in Batumi, in the near future they
will be indicted.

On Saturday Armenian News-NEWS.am received a call from Ruben Poghosyan
uncle of one of the arrested students, Gagik Poghosyan, who reported
some details about the reasons of detention.

According to him, his nephew and his three friends, Hovsep Seymaryan,
Tigran Serobyan and Harutyun (surname was not mentioned) were
vacationing in the Georgian resort of Kobuleti with their parents. On
August 10 they decided to go to Batumi by car.

“On the road to Batumi, a few cars began to file some signals and then
approached. People from inside these vehicles began to insult the
guys, saying to return to their country and rest there. Aggressors
then blocked the car with Armenian numbers. The priest of Batumi was
in one of the cars. His brother punched the driver of the Armenian
car, who, of course, responded. Then, 30-40 seconds after the
incident, police arrested the children and brought to the detention
facility of Batumi,” said the source, adding that all four have
undergone medical examinations – no traces of alcohol and drug were
found.

Poghosyan said that parents of students turned to the consul of
Armenia in Batumi, the Armenian Embassy in Georgia but received no
respond.

`Instead, this Georgian priest went to the police and said that four
students beat them – about 15 people altogether.

The parents do not know what to do. On the third day of their
detention police appeal to the Court to keep the young people in
custody,” said Ruben Poghosyan.

news.am, Armenia
Aug 13 2011

Azerbaijan keeps violating ceasefire with Karabakh

August 13, 2011 | 18:30

STEPANAKERT. – Azerbaijani forces violated ceasefire in the frontline
between the armed forces of Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
(NKR) 183 times over past week.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier, Azerbaijan violated the
ceasefire regime over 1100 times last month.

Nagorno-Karabakh Armed Forces maintain the ceasefire regime. They turn
to counter actions only in case of extreme necessity. The Armed Forces
of NKR fully control situation in the line of contact, reads the
statement by press service of Nagorno-Karabakh MOD.

MP calls on NCFA to encourage young scientists

15:21 – 13.08.11

An MP of the opposition party Heritage has sent a letter to the
National Competitiveness Foundation of Armenia (NCFA), calling on it
to encourage young Armenian scientists.

In the letter Anahit Bakhshyan said that two Armenian scientific
magazines have received Impact Factor from the British influential
media holding Thompson Reuters.

The Impact Factor is a measure of the frequency with which the average
article in a journal has been cited in a particular year or period.

“This is an unprecedented and exclusively significant event in our
newly independent history,” said Bakhshyan in the letter.
Further, she called on the NCFA to organize a special event to mark this event.

Particularly, she suggested launching a project aimed at encouraging
young scientists to write scientific articles which, in turn, would
contribute to the establishment of the platforms, in this case the
magazines, where they are published.

Bakhshyan also suggested paying young scientists who write such
articles four times as much as is the average salary of a scientist.

“It is necessary to design a special strategy that will have at its
core such projects of encouragement,” said she, adding that it will
pave the way for Armenia to have influential and internationally
recognized scientific magazines.

“That will be one of the important cornerstones to really build a
knowledge-based economy,” read the letter.

Tert.am

ARMENIE
La production industrielle en croissance de 11%

La production industrielle d’Arménie en avril 2011 a augmenté de 11%
sur un an à 75 milliards de drams a annoncé le Service national de la
statistique (SSN). Le SSN a déclaré qu’en avril la production était en
baisse de 1,5% comparé à mars.

La production du secteur minier a augmenté de 22,2% par rapport à
l’année précédente à 15,4 milliards de drams. Le secteur de la
transformation a enregistré une hausse de 3,4% sur un an à 46,3
milliards de drams. La production et distribution d’énergie
électrique, de gaz naturel, de vapeur et d’air purifié a progressé de
31,4% à 11,8 milliards de drams, tandis que la production et la
fourniture de l’eau, l’élimination des eaux usées et le recyclage des
déchets était en croissance de 12,1% à 1,5 milliards de drams.

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UKRAINE SELLS 71 ARMORED VEHICLES, 1 HELICOPTER TO AZERBAIJAN

news.az
Aug 12 2011
Azerbaijan

By selling arms to Armenia and Azerbaijan, Ukraine continued the
tradition of arms supply to Karabakh conflict parties.

Citing the UN register of conventional arms, where the member-states
have to provide information about arms supplies, the source reports
that in 2010 Ukraine sold 71 armored vehicles and 16,500 guns to
Armenia, Eurasianet.org reports.

Particularly, Azerbaijan was supplied with 71 armored vechicle-70
without arms, 7 self-propelled artillery devices of 122-cm caliber,
1 fight air craft Mi-24R, 3,000 guns and 1 anti-rank rocket launch.

Armenia purchased 2 training air crafts for reactive aviation pilots
L-39, 230 revolvers and guns, 60 rifles, 16,500 submachine guns and
2,501 machineguns.

TERRITORIES IN EXCHANGE FOR NAKHICHEVAN – THE BEST WAY TO ESTABLISH A LONG-STANDING PEACE IN THE REGION, ARMENIAN POLITICAL SCIENTIST BELIEVES

Mediamax
Aug 12 2011
Armenia

Yerevan/Mediamax/. Member of the Central Board of the Social-Democratic
Party “Hnchakyan”, Vahan Shirkhanyan, said that “the equivalent
exchange of territories between Armenia and Azerbaijan is the best
way to establish a long-standing peace in the region.”

Addressing a press conference in Yerevan today, he said that Armenia
should get Nakhichevan in exchange for the territories around Nagorno
Karabakh, which will lead to the resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani
conflict which lasts for almost a century.

Vahan Shirkhanyan also spoke about the social-economic crisis, which,
he believes, lasts for already 20 years in Armenia and has lead to
the almost twice reduction of the country’s population and decline
in industry and science.

“To overcome this crisis we should give up the liberal model of
development and adopt the social democratic path, elaborate a new
program for Armenia’s development, a new Constitution and change the
existing system,” the political scientist concluded.

ARMENIA RICH COUNTRY, POLITICIAN SAYS

Tert.am
12.08.11

Not only the government system’s change is of importance for Armenia,
Vahagn Shirkhanyan, Board member, Social Democratic Hnchakyan party,
told journalists Aug. 12.

The rulers’ personal qualities are of importance as well, he added.

“With respect to resources per capita, Armenia is richer than
Azerbaijan and Georgia. The country has unused resources and lands,
but they are plundered,” Shirkhanyan said.