Montreal: Maryvonne Kendergi Est Morte

MARYVONNE KENDERGI EST MORTE

Radio-Canada
30 sept 2011

Mise a jour le vendredi 30 septembre 2011 a 16 h 29 HAE

Maryvonne Kendergi, figure importante de la musique contemporaine
au Quebec et personnalite marquante de l’histoire de Radio-Canada,
est decedee mardi a Montreal a l’âge de 96 ans.

Cette professeure, musicographe, pianiste et commentatrice a recu de
nombreuses distinctions au cours de sa carrière. Elle fut notamment
nommee membre de l’Ordre du Canada en 1980 et chevalier de l’Ordre
national du Quebec en 1985. Elle recut aussi la medaille du Canadien de
la musique en 1981 et fut elue a la Societe royale du Canada en 1990.

Guidee par l’amour de la musique

Nee en Armenie en 1915 et elevee en Syrie, Maryvonne Kendergi a
mene ses etudes en France. Elle y a cumule de nombreux diplômes,
notamment de l’Ecole normale de musique de Paris et de l’Universite
de la Sorbonne.

Maryvonne Kendergi est arrivee au Canada en 1952, plus precisement a
Gravelbourg, en Saskatchewan. Elle y fut animatrice a la station de
radio CFRG et professeure d’initiation artistique, avant de partir
pour Montreal, en 1956.

Elle devint alors animatrice a la radio et a la television de
Radio-Canada. Pendant une dizaine d’annees, elle y a anime des
emissions sur la musique nouvelle et sur les grands festivals
europeens. Au cours de ces emissions, elle a fait entendre aux
auditeurs plus de 200 entretiens avec les plus grands compositeurs
et interprètes de l’epoque.

En 1966, elle a ete du groupe des fondateurs de la Societe de musique
contemporaine du Quebec (SMCQ). Mme Kendergi a egalement enseigne
l’histoire de la musique canadienne et quebecoise a la Faculte de
musique de l’Universite de Montreal. En 1980, elle est devenue la
première presidente de l’Association pour l’avancement de la recherche
en musique du Quebec.

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Arts & Entertainment: Golden Apricot Films Screened At Armenia’s Uni

GOLDEN APRICOT FILMS SCREENED AT ARMENIA’S UNIVERSITIES

news.am, Armenia
Sept 30 2011

YEREVAN.- Golden Apricot International Film Festival and VivaCell-MTS,
a subsidiary of “Mobile TeleSystems” OJSC, announces the launch of
a student film festival called “Gaudeamus”.

The project is aimed at the organization of festival film screenings
at universities. The festival will last until the end of the academic
year. The films will be screened at the Linguistic University after
Brusov.

It’s aimed at making available to students the most remarkable works
of international cinematographic art as most of the students hadn’t
chance to participate in the Golden Apricot Film Festival, because
of exam period and summer holidays.

As the emphasis is placed on the advanced learning of foreign
languages, the organizers of the festival are also undertaking film
screenings by the original version-without translation, which will
also stimulate learning more foreign languages.

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Armenian Envoy Underscores Development Of Cultural Ties With Iran

ARMENIAN ENVOY UNDERSCORES DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURAL TIES WITH IRAN

Fars News Agency, Iran
Sept 30 2011

TEHRAN (FNA)- Armenian Ambassador to Tehran Grigor Arakelyan underlined
the good and close relations between Tehran and Yerevan, and called for
the further expansion of the bilateral ties, specially cultural fields.

“Armenia is so keen to have more expansive relations with Iran in
cultural field,” Arakelyan said in a meeting with the governor-general
of Isfahan province on Friday.

He expressed dissatisfaction with the current scale of the ties between
Yerevan and Isfahan which are sister cities, and called on Isfahan’s
governor-general to hold Yerevan’s culture week in the Iranian city.

Iran and Armenia have taken major strides to promote their bilateral
relations in the last few years. The bilateral trade volume between
the two states stands at nearly $270 million, a figure that is expected
to rapidly climb in a near future, according to officials.

Iran and Armenia have mainly expanded cooperation in power and gas
swap in recent years.

Iran mainly exports natural gas to Armenia and imports power supplies
from the Caucasian state through two transfer lines with a total
power transfer capacity of 220kw/ph at present.

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Germany returns skulls taken in colonial era to Namibia

Germany returns skulls taken in colonial era to Namibia

30 September 2011 Last updated at 14:59

The Namibian delegation attended a service in Berlin Namibian tribal
leaders are visiting Berlin to collect the skulls of 20 compatriots
killed during Germany’s colonial rule in the early 1900s.

German scientists took the heads to perform experiments seeking to
prove the racial superiority of white Europeans over black Africans.

The skulls were uncovered three years ago in medical archive exhibits.

A ceremony is being held in the German capital to return the remains
in what is seen as gesture of reconciliation.

“We have come first and foremost to receive the mortal human remains
of our forefathers and mothers and to return them to the land of their
ancestors,” Ueriuka Festus Tjikuua, a member of the Namibian
delegation, told reporters.

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Analysis
Richard Hamilton
BBC News

In the 1880s, Germany acquired present-day Namibia, calling it German
South-West Africa. In 1904 the Herero, the largest of about 200 ethnic
groups, rose up against colonial rule killing more than a 120
civilians.

The German response was ruthless. Gen Lothar von Trotha signed a
notorious extermination order against the Herero, defeated them in
battle and drove them into the desert, where most died of thirst. Of
an estimated 65,000 Herero, only 15,000 survived. It is thought about
10,000 Nama people also died.

In 1985, a UN report classified the events as an attempt to
exterminate the Herero and Nama peoples of South-West Africa, and
therefore the earliest attempted genocide in the 20th Century. In
2004, Germany’s ambassador to Namibia expressed regret for what
happened.
The skulls belong to 20 people who died after an uprising against
their German colonial rulers more than 100 years ago.

They were among hundreds who starved to death after being rounded up in camps.

Some of the dead had their heads removed and of these, about 300 were
taken to Germany, arriving between 1909 and 1914.

The skulls gathered dust in German archives until three years ago when
a German reporter uncovered them at the Medical History Museum of the
Charite hospital in Berlin, and at Freiburg University in the
south-west.

German researchers believe the skulls belong to 11 people from the
Nama ethnic group and nine from the Herero.

They were four women, 15 men and a boy.

Nazi forerunner

Mr Tjikuua said the mission intended to “extend a hand of friendship”
to Germans.

Namibians, he said, wished to encourage a dialogue “with the full
participation and involvement of the representatives of the
descendants of those that suffered heavily under dreadful and
atrocious German colonial rule”.

The conflict dates back nearly a century Charite spokeswoman Claudia
Peter said the purported research on the skulls performed by German
scientists had been rooted in perverse racial theories that later
planted the seeds for the Nazis’ genocidal ideology.

“They thought that they could prove that certain peoples were worth
less than they were,” she told AFP news agency.

“What these anthropologists did to these people was wrong and their
descendants are still suffering for it.”

The German foreign ministry praised co-operation between the German
and Namibian sides over the skull repatriation as “excellent”.

Germany has consistently refused to pay reparations to its former
colony, pointing out that it does give the country development aid.

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Ankara Urges Baku to Revise Relations with Israel

ANKARA URGES BAKU TO REVISE RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL

AZG DAILY #170, 27-09-2011

Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Hulusi Kilic has urged the
Azerbaijani authorities on behalf of Ankara to revise the economic and
military relations with Israel and to back Ankara in tensed
Turkish-Israeli situation, Turkish “CnnTurk” news service writes
referring to Israeli “Yediot Ahronot” paper.

Israel’s Ambassador to Baku appeared with another initiative calling
on Baku not to fail relations with Israel because of any third
country.

Israel and Azerbaijan record $2 billion trade volume annually. Israeli
officers train Azerbaijani soldiers and sell modern armament to Baku.
And Israeli “Elbit” company plans a joint production of “Heron”
investigative jets in Azerbaijan, panorama.am reports.

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Police call on protesters to leave Liberty Square

Police call on protesters to leave Liberty Square

11:01 – 02.10.11

Armenia’s police have called on protestors to leave the Liberty
Square, saying their rally is not sanctioned by the Yerevan
Municipality.

In a statement issued late on Saturday, the police also warned that it
would disperse demonstrators if they breach public order and others’
constitutional rights.

`The police are informing that this current rally is illegal and its
participants will be held accountable before the law,’ read the police
statement.

It comes after the supporters of the opposition Armenian National
Congress, or HAK, set up tents on Liberty Square and started a
one-week of round-the-clock rallies.

The oppositionists have already spent two day in tents near the Opera
House in an attempt to make the authorities satisfy their demands.

Further, the police said given the rally is peaceful they do not take
immediate measures to disperse it.

But once the demonstrators violate the public order and other
citizens’ constitutional rights disproportionately, the police will
have to disperse the rally, the statement added.

The police also said that the demonstrators are already violating
public order by having set up tents on Liberty Square.

`Therefore, the police are calling on participants of the rally to
dismantle the tents,’ read the statement.

The HAK supporters set up tents and spent days on Liberty Square also
in 2008, when they claimed that the vote had been stolen. The unrest
then left at least ten people dead and several wounded.

Tert.am

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Armenia e Italia, patto all’insegna della cultura

TTG Italia
30 set 2011

Armenia e Italia, patto all’insegna della cultura

[Armenia & Italy: A Cultural Agreement]

Armenia e Italia hanno avviato un progetto di cooperazione in ambito
culturale. Primo passo il grande workshop che si terrà il 4 ottobre a
Venezia, finanziato anche dalla Regione Veneto, cui parteciperanno 20
operatori armeni, oltre ad Armavia e Air Italy, e oltre 30 operatori
veneti. Sempre Venezia sarà la sede di una delle due mostre italiane
che apriranno un anno di eventi dedicati all’Armenia; la prima si
svolgerà dal 16 dicembre 2011 al 10 aprile 2012, in occasione del V
Centenario della stampa a Venezia del primo libro in lingua armena.
L’evento veneziano costituisce il lancio ufficiale delle celebrazioni
giubilari che si svolgeranno in Armenia con un fitto programma
culturale per la capitale Yerevan, dichiarata dall’Unesco capitale
mondiale del libro per l’anno 2012. Un’altra grande mostra aprirà a
Roma l’8 novembre prossimo nel museo Braschi: ‘Dvin: Una capitale tra
Europa e Asia’ dedicata ad una delle grandi e importanti città
dell’Antica Armenia, tappa importante lungo la Via Della Seta. L’ente
governativo National Competitiveness Foundation of Armenia (Ncfa)
parteciperà anche a TTG Incontri con uno stand proprio.

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Judo athletes to participate in Abu Dhabi Grand Prix tournament

news.am, Armenia
Oct 1 2011

Armenian judo athletes to participate in Abu Dhabi Grand Prix tournament

October 01, 2011 | 19:04

YEREVAN. -Armenian Judo team chief coach Adrian Kroitoru will have
study training in Armavir city, Russia with Hovhannes Davtyan, Armen
Nazaryan and Hakob Arakelyan participation on October 1-9.

After the training Davtyan and Nazaryan will participate in Abu Dhabi
Grand Prix tournament scheduled for October 16-18, whereas Arakelyan
will participate in World Championship in Tyumen, Russia scheduled for
October 28-30, Armenian Judo Federation informs Armenian News-NEWS.am.

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BAKU: ‘Mehriban Aliyeva’s visit good opp. to popularize Azerbaijan’

news.az, Azerbaijan
Oct 1 2011

‘Mehriban Aliyeva’s visit good opportunity to popularize Azerbaijan’
Sat 01 October 2011 06:53 GMT | 2:53 Local Time

‘Mehriban Aliyeva’s visit to Germany can open broad opportunities to
raise awareness about realities of Azerbaijan’.

The statement came from chairman of the Friends of Azerbaijan Society,
author Elman Mustafazade while commenting on a recent Germany visit of
Mehriban Aliyeva, First Lady of Azerbaijan, President of the Heydar
Aliyev Foundation.

‘Mehriban Aliyeva is doing much to raise awareness of international
community about realities of Azerbaijan. This visit is a good
opportunity to let Germany to learn more about Azerbaijan. Mehriban
Aliyeva’s successful meetings with political elites of Germany show
that the visit was success. I believe more attention should be paid to
development of relations with Germany from now on. Germany is a
country with a serious attitude and interest towards Azerbaijan,’
Mustafazade said.

The author also noted wide-ranging activities of Armenian diaspora in
Germany and their efforts to disseminate false information.

‘Armenians in Germany work hard to get break-away Nagorno-Karabakh
recognized. They plan to hold a number of events. Similar visits
should expose their false propaganda. Our diaspora organizations
should be active in this matter’, Mustafazade noted.

Gun.Az

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Armenia opposition launches round-the-clock protest

Agence France Presse
September 30, 2011 Friday 5:28 PM GMT

Armenia opposition launches round-the-clock protest

YEREVAN, Sept 30 2011

Armenia’s main opposition alliance launched a one-week,
round-the-clock protest in a central square in the capital Friday in
an attempt to increase pressure on the authorities to hold snap
elections.

Activists pitched tents on Freedom Square in an echo of protests after
disputed elections in 2008 that ended in clashes leaving 10 people
dead.

“We must step up the pressure in various ways — sit-ins, hunger
strikes, pickets and so on,” former president Levon Ter-Petrosian, the
leader of the Armenian National Congress opposition bloc, told the
rally.

Some 6,000 people rallied in the square amid rain and wind as
Ter-Petrosian demanded presidential and parliamentary polls before the
end of the year, although he insisted that “our aim is not to cause
chaos in the country”.

Angry about poverty, alleged institutional corruption and democratic
failings, protesters are hoping for fresh concessions from the
coalition government led by President Serzh Sarkisian after gains made
this year amid a series of demonstrations.

Sarkisian’s administration has already released activists jailed for
involvement in the 2008 violence.

But talks between the governing coalition and Ter-Petrosian’s bloc
aimed at easing political tensions recently broke down and the
authorities have ruled out any possibility of early polls.

“We expected that the opposition would take radical steps in the
autumn because (parliamentary) elections (in 2012) are close and the
opposition wants to attract the attention of more supporters, but they
have to act within the limits of the law,” governing party lawmaker
Eduard Sharmazanov told AFP.

Analysts have also speculated that the ongoing protests are an attempt
to gain electoral advantage before next year’s parliamentary polls.

Armenia has gone through political and military turmoil since
independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, with a series of disputed
elections and a war with neighbouring Azerbaijan over the region of
Nagorny Karabakh.

mkh-emc/mlr

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