Author: Baghdasarian Karlen

The Armenian Professional Society
The Armenian Engineers and Scientist of America

September 12, 2012

Contact: Vasken Yardemian
818-469-0262
[email protected]

The APS & AESA will jointly honor Dr. Vaughn (Vahan) Gregor on Saturday
November 17, 2012

(Glendale, CA) – The Armenian Professional Society (APS) and the Armenian
Engineers and Scientists of America (AESA) will jointly honor Dr.
Vaughn (Vahan) Gregor
for his extraordinary accomplishments with the APS Lifetime Achievement
Award and the AESA Victor Hambartsumian Award at a banquet on Saturday,
November 17, 2012.
Dr. Gregor, an engineer, inventor, and industrialist, has devoted his time
and energy to both his profession and his community, seeking excellence in
all his endeavors. Inventing new machines and building automated factories
were his daily work. Leading and contributing to Armenian and civic
organizations have always been his avenues for public service. Dr. Gregor
is a devotee and benefactor to the Armenian community; a founding member of
the APS, President of the AESA, and former trustee of several organizations
including, the Armenian Assembly of America (AAA), the Armenian Education
Foundation (AEF) and the Armenian Society of Los Angeles (ASLA). He is
also former chairman of the Southern California Armenian General Benevolent
Union (AGBU). He has been officially recognized with several awards by the
United States and the Armenian government representatives for his
outstanding contributions and accomplishments in science and engineering.
He was also elected to the Armenian National Academy of Engineering. `This
will be an exceptional evening where two Armenian professional
organizations have joined forces to recognize Dr. Gregor for his
significant impact towards science and engineering as well as the Armenian
community, Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh’ commented AESA President Armen
Hovannesian. `We will publicize the banquet location followed by the
invitations’ concluded Hovannesian.

APS was formed in 1958 for the advancement of education and fellowship
among Armenians. Since its inception, APS has supported over 300 students
of Armenian descent in the United States by granting scholarships to
graduate students in a variety of fields.

AESA, established in 1983 in Glendale, California, is a non- partisan and
non-sectarian philanthropic organization focused primarily on addressing
the professional, technical, and scientific needs of fellow Armenian
engineers, scientists, industrialists, and architects worldwide.

For more information, please contact AESA at (818)547-3372, e-mail:
[email protected] or APS at (818)685-9946, e-mail: [email protected].

From: Baghdasarian

LEVON ARONYAN AWARDED ST. MESROP MASHTOTS ORDER

Mediamax
Sept 11 2012
Armenia

Yerevan/Mediamax/. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree
on awarding the members of the Armenian chess team, who won the World
Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, with state awards.

Armenian men’s national chess team head coach, grandmaster Arshak
Petrosyan and international grandmaster Levon Aronyan were awarded St.

Mesrop Mashtots orders.

International grandmasters Vladimir Hakobyan, Sergey Movsisyan,
Tigran Petrosyan and Gabriel Sargsyan were awarded Orders of Honor.

From: Baghdasarian

WORKS FOR ESTABLISHING A FREE ECONOMIC ZONE IN ARMENIA ARE PROCEEDING WELL AND IN DUE TIME

Mediamax
Sept 11 2012
Armenia

Yerevan/Mediamax/. Investment works aimed at establishing free
economic zone on the territory of “RAO Mars” CJSC and Yerevan
Scientific-Research Institute of Mathematic Machines are proceeding
well and meet the deadline.

President of the “Syntronix” JSC Sergey Aslanyan said this during
his meeting with Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan today.

The sides discussed issues related to establishing and developing
the infrastructures on the territory of the free economic zone,
providing services and processes of facilitating investments.

From: Baghdasarian

“CONSTITUTIONAL ARTSAKH” MOVEMENT ESTABLISHED

Mediamax
Sept 10 2012
Armenia

Yerevan/Mediamax/. The session of the initiative group of
Constitutional Artsakh” civil movement was held in Shushi September 9.

Among the initiators of the movement are: former NKR presidential
candidate, member of the parliament Vitally Balasanyan, former NKR
Deputy Foreign Minister, head of the Public Council for Foreign
Policy and Security Masis Mailyan, head of Stepanakert Press Club
Gegham Baghdasaryan and member of the NKR parliament Vahan Badasyan.

The statement issued by the group reads that “despite the fact
that according to the Constitution power in the Republic of Artsakh
belongs to people, the current ruling circles strive to establish and
improve the anti-constitutional system which deprives the public of any
possibility to elect authorities and provides continuous reproduction
of power.”

The statement also says that the new civic movement “is strongly
focused to improve the spiritual and political life and create
necessary conditions for the formation of authorities through legal
elections.”

From: Baghdasarian

SUBDIVISIONS OF CSTO MEMBER COUNTRIES ARE READY FOR “INTERACTION 2012” EXERCISE

Mediamax
Sept 10 2012
Armenia

Yerevan/Mediamax/. Subdivisions of the CSTO member states are fully
positioned in “Marshal Baghramyan” military college and are ready for
“Interaction 2012” due to be held within a few days.

Commander of CSTO Rapid Response Collective Forces in Armenia,
Major General Kamo Kochunts reported this to Deputy Head of Chief
Headquarters of the Armenian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Hayakaz
Baghmanyan, Mediamax reports.

Haykaz Baghmanyan welcomed the military servicemen and wished them
good luck hoping that the forthcoming exercises will contribute to
the further enhancement of the fighting capacity of the CSTO Rapid
Response Collective Forces.

From: Baghdasarian

ARMENIA TOPS CHESS OLYMPIAD

Business World
Sept 10 2012

Istanbul: Chess Olympiad

Final Standings

(in tiebreak order)
1-2 Armenia, Russia, 19/22
3 Ukraine, 18/22
4-5 China, USA, 17/22
6-8 Netherlands, Vietnam, Romania, 16/22
9-18 Hungary, Azerbaijan, Cuba, Germany, Poland, Serbia, Italy,
Sweden, England, Denmark, 15/22
19-33 Moldova, Bulgaria, Philippines, Argentina, France, Uzbekistan,
Slovenia, Israel, Croatia, Latvia, Belarus, Slovakia, Turkmenistan,
Australia, Bangladesh, 14/22

Total of 150 participants

AT THE START of the final round it was China, Russia and Armenia
tied for 1st place with China ahead on tiebreaks. However, China’s
gold medal ambitions were stopped by the Ukrainians 1-3, allowing
Armenia to snatch the Olympiad championship via a narrow 2.5-1.5
victory over Hungary.

Armenian board 2 Sergei Movsesian, the least productive player in
the Armenian squad with less than a 50% score, struck hardest when
it was needed the most and defeated Zoltan Almasi from the White side
of a Ruy Lopez.

All other games were drawn.

Russia defeated Germany 3-1 (wins by Kramnik and Karjakin over
Naiditsch and Fridman) to tie for first but was beaten out by Armenia’s
high tiebreak points.

They may perhaps point to Karjakin as the culprit as he was uninspired
during the event and had the tendency to agree to quick draws as soon
as the minimum number of 30 moves had been made.

A tired Philippine squad lost rather heavily to Romania 1-3 and were
relegated to 21st place.

From: Baghdasarian

CHIEF OF ARMENIAN CONSULATE DEPARTMENT SUSPECTED OF BRIBE-TAKING

Vestnik Kavkaza
Sept 10 2012
Russia

Akop Aji-Akopyan, Chief of the Consulate Department of the Armenian
Foreign Ministry, has been detained for bribe-taking, ITAR-TASS
reports.

The diplomat was detained on Sunday. Besides customs fees, the
official demanded citizens abroad to pay bribes, the National Security
Service says.

From: Baghdasarian

CINEMA: ARMENIAN LOVE STORY FEATURES GEORGIAN CO-STAR
BY ETUNA TSOTNIASHVILI

The Messenger
Sept 10 2012
Georgia

Tbilisi will host a new movie of Armenian origin entitled 100, 000
Seconds and directed by Ara Arnjakian. The film will star well known
Armenian actress Luiza Nersisyan and Georgian actor David Katsarava.

The movie premiere was held last week and is currently being shown
in Georgian cinemas.

The plot is developed mainly in one space and only two persons are
playing in it. “The film is very emotional and pleasant for watching,
this is one of the reasons why Georgian film lovers should see it,”
says Georgian actor David Katsarava. It is noteworthy that the casting
of Katsarava’s role was very high and reportedly, the Armenian director
could not find an appropriate candidate for that role until he met
the Georgian actor.

“The casting was very high, but I could not choose anyone. However,
as soon as I saw David, I understood that he was the right man
for the film,” Director Arjakian says, adding that there were a
lot of questions as to why he chose a Georgian actor for the role:
“all questions stopped as soon as they saw the movie,” he added.

“I am happy to be here in Georgia and as you know, we are presenting
our new movie, I hope the Georgian public will like it and visit
the cinemas to see it,” Luiza Nersisyan told the media. According to
Nersisyan, it was very pleasant for her to work with David Katsarava.

“He is an excellent partner and we did not have any difficulties to
work together,” she said.

The film begins with a banal story where a man and a woman meet and
introduce each other by chance and a love story begins, although the
plot develops very surprisingly and it has a very unexpected ending.

The movie’s soundtrack is written and performed by Haiko and Anahit
Shahbazyan.

Tbilisi is the third city where movie premiere took place. Before
Tbilisi the film was shown in Yerevan and in Los Angeles for the
Armenian Diaspora.

From: Baghdasarian

MAN TRIED TO RAPE HIS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW TWICE IN KOTAYK REGION

news.am
September 10, 2012 | 16:19

YEREVAN. – On September 7, a 21 years old Mayakovski village resident
(Armenia’s Kotayk region) reported Erebuni police department that on
May 10, 2012 at around 08:00 am her father-in-law had tried to rape
her in the house located in Jrashen village, Erebuni police department
informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

According to the woman, she has resisted and run away. She informs
that earlier on Aug. 16 her father-in-law has made the same attempt
again, but the victim managed to escape. Investigation is underway.

From: Baghdasarian

AMERICAN ARMENIANS CALL THE STEP OF HUNGARY AND AZERBAIJAN A JEER AT JUSTICE

19:00 . 10/09

Protests continue near the Hungarian and Azerbaijani embassies
in different parts of the world, which are organized by the
representatives of Armenian communities.

They condemn the decisions of extradition of Ramil Safarov, who killed
Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan to Azerbaijan and pardoning him
in Baku.

The second demonstration was held in connection with this in
Washington. The first one was organized on the next day of extraditing
Safarov to Azerbaijan, on September 1. Those gathered called the steps
of Hungary and Azerbaijan a jeer at justice and urged immediately to
send the murderer back to jail.

A demonstration will also be held in New York this evening, near the
building of Hungary’s mission in the UN.

From: Baghdasarian