Author: Baghdasarian Karlen

Suicide attempt prevented in Armenia

NEWS.AM
February 02, 2013 | 19:59

YEREVAN. – An alarm was received at 7.12 p.m. on Saturday that a
citizen is about to commit a suicide by jumping into the underground
at the Garegin Nzhdeh Square and a help was required.

A rescue operative squad with paramedics of crisis management center
along with ambulance service arrived at the site, press service of the
Ministry of Emergency Situations of Armenia informs.

A suicide attempt of A. Sargsyan, who was born in 1987, was prevented
by the rescuers and the police employees, the press service informs.

From: Baghdasarian

Hamazkayin’s Mosaic V Concert to Showcase International Lineup

Glendale, CA. 02/01/2013 – Organized by the Hamazkayin Armenian
Cultural and Educational Society, the Mosaic V concert will showcase
an impressive international lineup of performers at the historic San
Gabriel Mission Playhouse on Saturday, March 16.

The Mosaic V audience will experience traditional Armenian music set
to contemporary rock tunes performed by Armenian-Lebanese singer
Eileen Khatchadourian. Also hailing from Lebanon and renowned in the
Middle East, DJ and music producer C-Rouge will blend modern Trance
sounds with traditional Armenian melodies. Vocalist Elena Yerevan, who
takes her stage name from her hometown, will perform Armenian classics
on her guitar.

Among the local performers, Ayline Amirayan will incorporate classic
rock and pop elements as she introduces original and cover Armenian
folk songs with the accompaniment of cellist Garik Terzian and
composer Greg Hosharian. The culturally diverse Eternal Mind Control
will tell passionate stories about life with their intelligent lyrics
and compositions influenced by rock, metal, funk, classical, ethnic,
jazz, and blues. The concert will also debut music by Palm of Granite,
featuring up-and-coming musician Raffi Semerdjian. It will certainly
be a memorable night – a mosaic of six diverse bands, performing in
both Armenian and English.

The celebration of music will begin at 7:00 p.m. in the beautiful
courtyard of the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse with cocktails and
tasty eats being served by local food trucks. Your dining experience
will be complemented by the music of Sutra Club DJ Andre Vannes. The
cocktail hour will be followed by the concert at 8:00 p.m.

Over the years, the Mosaic concerts have impressed audiences by
introducing them to the talents of young Armenian musicians. In
keeping with tradition, Mosaic V promises to wow concertgoers yet
again.

For more information and tickets, please visit
or contact Hamazkayin at (213)-278-2020.

From: Baghdasarian

Iran calls for increase of trade with Armenia to $1 billion

Tabriz, East Azarbaijan, Feb 2, IRNA — East Azerbaijan Province
Governor General, Ahmad Alirezabeigi declared the trade volume between
Yerevan and Tehran ‘will’ hit $1 billion.

He made the remarks in a meeting with the local officials of Armenia’s
Syunik Province.

‘Current volume of trade transactions between Iran and Armenia is
currently $500 million which should be doubled in the near future,’
Alirezabeigi said.

The Iranian provincial official stressed development of relations
between the two countries in all fields, including the fields of
agriculture, industry, transportation and energy.

`Collaboration among Armenia’s Syunik Province economic activists and
Iran’s East Azarbaijan activists helps to boosting bilateral relations
at the national level.’

Governor General of Syunik province Suren Khachatrian, for his part,
thanked Iran’s technical helps and called Iranian helps very important
in his country’s development process, noting that Yerevan is committed
to expand ties with Islamic Republic.

In recent years, Iran and its Northern neighbor Armenia have boosted
cooperation, signed agreements on energy cooperation and agreed to
cooperate in technology and research and to enhance ties in commerce
and economy.

In December 2011, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his
Armenian counterpart pledged to further expand ‘high-level relations’
between their nations and, in particular, give new impetus to the
implementation of joint energy projects that have fallen behind
schedule.

In early October, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi and his
Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandian met at the UN Headquarters in
New York to discuss bilateral ties and regional and international
issues.

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Islamic Republic News Agency/IRNA NewsCode: 80524063

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Voters’ preferences unchanged ahead of Armenia elections – expert

Feb 2, 2013 14:32 Moscow Time

Photo: RIA Novosti
An assassination attempt on Armenia’s presidential candidate Paruyr
Hayrikyan will not affect voters’ preferences, Moscow-based Oriental
expert Andrei Areshev told the Voice of Russia on Saturday.
He said that incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan is almost certain to
win the upcoming elections.

He recalled that according to the latest opinion polls, 66 percent of
Armenians have signaled their readiness to vote for Sargsyan.

Wounded Armenian presidential candidate wants election day postponed

Armenian presidential hopeful who survived an assassination attempt on
Thursday, has asked the Constitutional Court to postpone the election
date, scheduled for February 18.

Paruyr Hayrikian said that right now he was physically unfit to
continue his campaign.

There are eight candidates, including the incumbent Serge Sargsyan,
running for the country’s top job.

Armenia presidential election may be postponed over assassination of candidate

The presidential elections of Armenia may be delayed because of the
attempt on the life of candidate Paruyr Hayrikian.

According to the constitution of the country, in the case of
insurmountable obstacles faced by one of the candidates, the election
may be postponed for two weeks.

This was announced by the speaker of the parliament.

An attempt to assassinate candidate Hayrikian was committed on
Thursday night in the center of Yerevan.

The politician was shot in the shoulder. He is now in the hospital,
his life is not in danger.

Presidential elections were to be held in Armenia on February 18.

They involve eight candidates, including the current President Serzh Sargsyan.

Armenian presidential candidate wounded in assassination attempt

An Armenian presidential candidate has been shot in the center of
Yerevan, the country’s capital, late Thursday. The 64-year-old
politician, Paruyr Hayrikyan of the Union for National
Self-Determination party, was taken to hospital with a gun wound.

Hayrikyan was taken to the Saint Gregory the Illuminator medical
center with two gunshot wounds, in the shoulder and in the chest. The
chest wound is considered serious, but not immediately
life-threatening, medics said.

Hayrikyan is conscious but has not yet been operated on. A number of
high-profile figures visited the politician in his ward, including
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, Yerevan Police Chief Vladimir
Gasparyan and Speaker of Parliament Hovik Abrahamyan, Regnum news
agency reports.

The candidate was shot as he left his car near his parent’s house on
Tpagrichneri Street in the southeast section of central Yerevan.

Two shells have reportedly been found at the crime scene.

Police are still investigating, but are not commenting on the incident.

Hayrikyan is one of eight candidates running for president in the
Caucasus state’s February 18 election.

The election campaign was launched on January 21.

Voice of Russia, RT, RIA, TASS

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Armenian publication on landlocked states is published in Germany

NEWS.AM
February 02, 2013 | 11:03

YEREVAN/STUTTGART. – A new publication, written by an Armenian in
English language, is now on the market, and it is worldwide as eBook.
Anna S. Gevorgyan has published her Master thesis she wrote at the
AmericanUniversity of Armenia in Yerevan.

The booklet analyses the difficult economic and transport situation of
landlocked states, of which only Europe could manage that these states
are in an acceptable and comparable situation. She also adds a
thorough analysis of the Armenian situation. The book has three ISBN
numbers: one as print edition, one as PDF eBook edition, and one for a
Kindle reader with Amazon Worldwide (it is described in
).

It is published by LIBERTAS – European Institute, a Germany-based
European think-tank on European and international governance and
economy, where Armenia plays a certain role: nine years ago, a
scenario was written there about a possible accession of Armenia to
the European Union; some years later, a booklet about the
complementarity policy, authored by Nona Abazyan M.A., was published,
in July 2012 the Nagorno-Karabakh elections were monitored
(), and at present a scenario about
Armenia and the EU is in preparation.

Extracts of Anna S. Gevorgyan’s book will find also their public in an
article in one of the next `European Union Foreign Affairs Journal’
issues, which also are a publication product; this can be
downloaded – for free, since it is a non-profit operation – from

From: Baghdasarian

Artsakh President had phone conversation with Paruyr Hayrikyan

11:11, 2 February, 2013

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 2, ARMENPRESS: President of Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic Bako Sahakyan had a telephone conversation with the leader of
the National Self-Determination Union, Armenian Presidential candidate
Paruyr Hayrikyan on February 1.

NKR President Sahakyan wished Paruyr Hayrikyan health and speedy
recovery and hoped that very soon he would return to active political
life.

From: Baghdasarian

ARMENIE-SPORTS
Disparition du grand champion de boxe Vladimir Yenguibarian

Le 1er février disparaissait à Los Angeles le champion olympique
arménien Vladimir Yenguibarian. Il avait 81 ans. Né le 24 avril 1932 à
Erévan, Vladimir Yenguibarian avait été champion olympique de boxe à
Melbourne (1956). Triple champion d’Europe et multiple champion
d’URSS, il avait fondé en 1959 la première école de boxe en Arménie.
Il en était le directeur jusqu’en 1995 date à laquelle il quitte
l’Arménie pour s’installer aux Etats Unis. En 2012 à l’initiative de
Gaguik Dzarkoukian le président du Comité olympique arménien,
l’Arménie avait fêté le 80e anniversaire du grand champion qui a
également donné son nom à l’école de boxe d’Erévan. Vladimir
Yenguibarian avait par ailleurs reçu les plus hautes distinctions
d’Arménie.

Krikor Amirzayan

samedi 2 février 2013,
Krikor Amirzayan ©armenews.com

From: Baghdasarian

PRESS RELEASE
RAFFI HOVANNISIAN CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS
31 Moscovian Street
Yerevan, Armenia
Tel.: (+374 – 10) 53.69.13
Fax: (+374 – 10) 53.26.97
Email: [email protected]
Website:

31 January 2013

Raffi Hovannisian draws excited crowds in Kotayk Region

Yerevan–Raffi K. Hovannisian today continued his campaign tour
through the towns of Charentsavan, Byureghavan, and Nor Hatchn in the
Kotayk region.

A meeting in the Charentsavan town square drew hundreds of citizens
from multiple party affiliations and political backgrounds. The
diverse and energized crowd repeatedly voiced their support of
Hovannisian’s candidacy during his speech.

Hovannisian’s next stop was Byureghavan, where the scheduled town hall
meeting had to be moved outdoors to accommodate the three hundred
supporters who turned out. Hovannisian presented his platform to the
constituents–reflecting on his vision of industrial development, army
reforms, reversing emigration, and advancements against corruption.

`Let none of us be absent,’ Hovannisian said in his final stop at Nor
Hatchn, continuing his urge for active participation on election day,
explaining that a true voter turnout of 70% would make it possible to
destroy the fraud maching and pave the way for a new Armenia.

Over two dozen media outlets covered Hovannisian’s meetings in the
Kotayk region.

Raffi Hovannisian Campaign Headquarters

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ARMENIA’S BUSINESS REPUTATION DAMAGED WITH THE ATTEMPTS TO HINDER CARREFOUR’S ENTRANCE TO ARMENIA – ARMEN MARTIROSYAN

TERT.AM
14:08 ~U 01.02.13

Armenia’s business reputation is being damaged with the attempts to
hinder the entrance of the Carrefour French hypermarket to Armenia,
deputy leader of Heritage party Armen Martirosyan said, speaking
to Tert.am.

Asked to comment on the complaints of representatives of small and
medium-sized business representatives over the entrance of Carrefour to
Armenia, Martirosyan said, “Armenia’s economic system is monopolized
and like in the other cases now as well we are facing the issue of
decline of our reputation in the international arena.”

He said the situation with Carrefour is the same like in the case of
other international brands.

Asked whether the entrance of the French company to Armenia will
create impediments for the Armenian producers, Martirosyan said he
does not see such an issue.

“As far as Carrefour imports products the monopolies will suffer cracks
as they will be forced to set competitive prices,” Martirosyan said.

According to media outlets, a number of small and medium-sized
businessmen are going to conduct a protest rally against Carrefour’s
entrance being afraid that it will swallow the market and their
products will not be sold.

From: Baghdasarian

DOCUMENTARY PRESENTS THE HISTORY OF JUGHA AND THE DESTRUCTION OF ITS CEMETERY

13:12 01.02.2013

The premiere of Jugha documentary, produced by Research on Armenian
Architecture Foundation, was held in Yerevan.

Within 20 minutes, the film presents the history of the historical
city of Jugha and the destruction of its world-known cemetery by the
authorities of the Autonomous Republic of Nakhijevan and Azerbaijan.

The film is now presented in English.

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