RUSSIAN DELEGATION LED BY RASHID NURGALIYEV ARRIVING IN YEREVAN
PanARMENIAN.Net
19.06.2008
Russian delegation led by Minister of Interior, army general Rashid
Nurgaliyev is arriving in Armenia today, says an announcement posted
on the RA Police’s website.
The delegation is arriving in Armenia to participate in the June 20
meeting of the joint board of the Armenian Police and Russian Ministry
of Interior.
"AZERBAIJAN-TURKEY HISTORIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION" ESTABLISHED IN ANKARA
H. Chaqrian
Azg Armenian Daily
20/06/2008
Turkey-Azerbaijan-Armenia
Pursuing Negation of the "Armenian Lies About Genocide"
The success of the international process of recognition of the Armenian
Genocide has become a serious threat to Turkey’s official positions of
negation. The question of recognizing the Armenian Genocide is being
seriously considered even in the USA and Israel, and Turkey is facing
the real threat of being isolated. It is not surprising that already in
2006 Abdullah Gul, being the Foreign Minister of Turkey, stated that
"the Armenian Genocide shall be the most important problem of Turkey
for the future 10 years, as it negatively affects our relationships
with foreign states".
In the situation occurred Turkey seeks for aid from Azerbaijan. Thus,
on June 16, 2008 the "Azerbaijan-Turkey Historic Research Foundation"
is being established in Ankara, pursuing as a main goal the negation
of the "Armenian lies about Genocide"
As "Eni Cag" newspaper, the main propaganda media of the "Grey Wolves"
organization, reported on June 17, the Foundation is to research
the Armenian Question basing upon trustworthy historic evidence
and scientific principles, and to supply the world society with
"impartial history".
Numerous social, political and science figures from Turkey and
Azerbaijan took part in the foundation ceremony. The participants
of the meeting discussed a number of organization and management
issues. Former Culture Minister of Turkey and leader of "National
Movement" party Namik Kemal Zeybek was appointed the Head of the
Foundation’s Executive Council, and ex-President of Turkey Suleyman
Demirel was appointed the head of the Caretakers’ Council.
According to information provided by "Eni Cag", the Foundation is to
open its branches in the USA, France, Belgium and Russia.
FRENCH COMPANY SELECTED AS ADVISOR ON DESIGN AND TECHNICAL CONTROL OF ADB-FINANCED "RURAL ROAD SECTOR" PROJECT
NOYAN TAPAN
JUNE 19
Egis BSEOM International company (France) has been announced the winner
of the tender for advisory services on design and technical control of
the Rural Road Sector project financed by the Asian Development Bank
(ADB), the RA minister of transport and communication Gurgen Sargsian
said at the June 19 sitting of the Armenian government.
The contract price proposed by the company made 1.7 million dollars,
including the cost of advisory services of 1.3 million dollars.
LATE VAHE ASLANIAN WAS DEDICATED TO BRINGING THE FULLEST POSSIBLE EXPERIENCE OF MUSIC TO HIS STUDENTS AND AUDIENCES
Barbara Rose Shuler
The Monterey County Herald
June 19 2008
CA
Vahe Aslanian — titan of music and founder of Camerata Singers —
died peacefully on May 15.
Survived by his wife Charlotte aka Dean, his daughter Cynthia and two
sons Charles and Greg, Aslanian left a rich legacy of music-making
and appreciation to the region.
Born in 1918, his career spanned most of the 20th century. In an era
complicated by too much music "to be seen and not heard," Aslanian
was dedicated to bringing the fullest possible experience of music
to his students and audiences.
"Music does not have any value whatsoever until it’s performed and
heard," he declared.
As a scholar, he was a boundless and fascinating well of
information. He was a passionate and demanding music director,
delivering to the Central Coast decades of great choral music spanning
five centuries. And he was a highly respected and dedicated educator.
Aslanian was born in Massachusetts and began his study of music at
the age of 7. His first professional singing engagement came at age
10, when he sang as a boy soprano soloist in Boston. He received his
bachelor’s degree in music from Boston University in 1940, masters
from Claremont Graduate School in California in 1950 and his doctorate
from Stanford University in 1965.
His career spanned seven decades, during which time he served as
a musicologist, choral conductor, educator, editor and choral and
piano adjudicator.
According to Joan Lam, a friend and singer with Camerata Singers,
Aslanian
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set high goals for himself throughout his life and succeeded beyond
his expectations.
During World War II, he served in the Army. While stationed in Oregon,
he met his wife, Charlotte-Deane Ellingsworth "over a hard-boiled
egg" and married her four months later before his deployment to the
Pacific Front.
He served in the Philippines, was a decorated combat veteran and was
discharged at the rank of captain.
In 1955, he took his place as one of 12 choral conductors selected
from around the world to study at the Berkshire Music Festival at
Tanglewood, Mass.
As a Fulbright Scholar, in the company of his family, he studied at
the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella in Naples, Italy, in 1958,
concentrating on the sacred choral works of Leonardo Leo, an 18th
century composer of the Neopolitan school.
The Aslanian family returned to Tanglewood where he conducted Leo’s
Mass in D Major, which he had transcribed and edited in Italy.
He led the Berkshire Music Festival Choir and Orchestra in the
performance and recalls the evening as one of the brightest and
proudest moments of his career.
Another source of pride for Aslanian came while doing research at
the Biblioteca Nazionale in Turin, Italy.
He discovered the manuscript of Vivaldi’s Chamber Mass "Kyrie" composed
about 1690. Until he brought it to light in the 20th century, it had
lain forgotten.
He edited, published, and presented its premiere performance with
the Hartnell Community Chorus in Carmel and Salinas in 1965. Aslanian
taught at Hartnell College from 1950 to 1980.
He was founder and director of the Hartnell College Conservatory of
Music, Hartnell College Choir, Chamber and Madrigal Singers, Salinas
Boy’s Chorus, and Hartnell Community Chorus.
Aslanian put his force behind the building of the college’s Performing
Arts Center and to securing musical instruments.
He even traveled to Boston to select a Steinway concert grand piano
for the school.
When Aslanian retired as music director of Camerata Singers in 1999, he
had been making music in California for more than 50 years. His bright
choral legacy with Camerata continues with his successor John Koza.
Over the years, like many in the region, I have had memorable
encounters with Aslanian and his music.
>>From time to time, he would call me, usually in a buoyant mood,
to add to my musical knowledge or update me on something he was
working on.
One day he responded to a piece I had written about a set of Italian
madrigals that had been performed that week in Carmel.
Citing resources and scholarly writings, he drew my attention
to erotically explicit meanings contained within the text of the
madrigals that had completely eluded me. We enjoyed a good laugh.
My most memorable experience of Aslanian and his music, however, was a
performance of Mozart ‘s "Requiem," which Camerata Singers dedicated to
the victims of a terrible earthquake that had taken place in Armenia.
I have heard many performances of this work, both recorded and
performed, including live versions with the London Philharmonic
Orchestra and the Carmel Bach Festival.
None touched me as powerfully as that Camerata benefit performance,
which as I recall took place at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, where
services will be held for Aslanian this Saturday.
It wasn’t the perfection of the musicmaking that moved me, though
it was a fine reading of the work, so much as the spirit in which it
was presented.
There was a palpable sense that the music of the "Requiem" itself
was being delivered by some invisible force to the earthquake victims
themselves as a healing balm.
It was more than a fundraising benefit. The concert was a gift of
the heart, a passionate prayer in service to the people of Armenia.
That invisible healing force was something that came right out of
Aslanian, went into the singers, out to the audience and beyond to
ones who needed it.
When I read Aslanian’s words, "Music does not have any value whatsoever
until it’s performed and heard," that is where my memory goes, to
that church, to that moment and the Mozart "Requiem."
Services will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday at St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church, 1071 Pajaro St. (at San Miguel), in Salinas. GO!
TURKISH BORDER GUARDS ARREST ARMENIAN CITIZEN
ARMENPRESS
June 18, 2008
YEREVAN, JUNE 18, ARMENPRESS: Press service of the Armenian Defense
Ministry reported that on June 17 at about 07:45 am alarm system of
the Armenian-Turkish border in the territory of Artashat operated
and the traces of a person who violated the border were found but
the person himself was not found.
On the same day at about 11:30 am Turkish border guards reported that
they arrested an Armenian citizen, resident of Artashat Arsen Avagian
born in 1971.
Spokesperson for the Defense Ministry Seiran Shahsuvarian said
currently works are being carried out with the mediation of the
International Committee of the Red Cross for returning Arsen Avagian.
EXPERIMENTAL-COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION OF ARMENTEL’S 3G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM TO BE PRESENTED ON JUNE 19
arminfo
2008-06-18 17:03:00
The experimental-commercial exploitation of ArmenTel company’s 3G
mobile communication system will be presented on June 19. Director
General of ArmenTel CJSC Neicho Velichkov will make a speech at a
press-conference dedicated to the presentation. As ArmenTel CJSC
(Beeline brand) told ArmInfo correspondent, all subscribers whose
telephones are of the 3G format will have a chance to connect to this
communication. The tariff for the new service will not differ from the
those of vocal calls in the current 2G system. The 3G network will
initially operate in the center of Yerevan and in the main lines of
Yerevan. The standard of the network’s work will be UMTS (Universal
Mobile Telecommunications System). Sony Ericsson provided technical
support to the project.
The 3G system gives a chance to receive a video telephone, mobile
television and access to internet through one channel of mobile
communication.
According to Wireless Intelligence, as of the end of November 2006,
there were 364 mln 3G subscribers, 93,5 mln of them were connected
to the UMTS networks and 271,1 mln – to ‘DMA2000.
SAYFO: SABRI ATMAN LECTURES IN GREECE
Sayfo Center
Assyria Times
June 17 2008
CA
Sabri Atman, representative of the Seyfo Center, has been invited to
Greece to lecture about Seyfo- the genocide on Assyrians during the
First World War.
Apart from Assyrians and Armenians, also Greeks were murdered
during Seyfo. Before Seyfo approximately 3 million Greeks lived in
Turkey. The Black Sea coast was demographically dominated by Pontic
Greeks. Today there are no Pontic Greeks living at the Black Sea coast
of Turkey. Before 1915, the Christian minorities constituted 1/3 of
the country’s population. Today the Christians are approximately only
80,000 in Turkey, a country with a population of 70 millions.
All Christians, Assyrians, Armenians and Greeks were either murdered
or subjected to ethnical cleansing.
Sabri Atman’s trip to Greece has been noticed by Assyrian media. Ahna
Media in Holland and the Radio program Qolo in Sweden have interviewed
Sabri Atman. During the interview, Sabri Atman said that the trauma
caused by Seyfo is still very strong and evident in Greece.
MORAL DEGREDATION – THE GREATEST SORROW
Hayots Ashkhar Daily
Published on June 17, 2008
Armenia
What do you think is the most troublesome issue at present?
In response to this question of "Hayots Ashkharh", PERTCH ZEYTOUNTSYAN
yesterday mentioned, "My greatest sorrow is over the moral degradation,
the moral-psychological atmosphere existing in the country. I think
such atmosphere will normalize only in case there is rule of law
in the country. If the laws are enforced, there will be morality as
well. This is the principal issue. If this problem is solved, a lot
of things will be settled."
From: Sebouh Z Tashjian <[email protected]>
Subject: Azerbaijan should hurry to strengthen military potential in Caspian
PanARMENIAN.Net
Azerbaijan should hurry to strengthen military potential in Caspian Sea
14.06.2008 15:20 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Azerbaijan should accelerate the process of
strengthening military potential in the Caspian Sea to ensure its
security, experts say.
-Due to support from abroad, Azerbaijan, together with other Caspian
countries – Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan – may strengthen its military
potential in Caspian to strengthen its water borders,- independent
military expert Alekper Mammadov said.
-Strengthening military capacity in the Caspian should be one of the
key tasks of Azerbaijan, a country which chose the priority of
integration to West and NATO. In Caspian, rich oil resources belong to
Azerbaijan and the country needs to have a strong military fleet to
ensure their security,- Mammadov said.
Azerbaijan has one of the naval forces in the Caspian, amongst former
Soviet countries. In order to strengthen them, Azerbaijan needs to
more actively co-operate with NATO and other members of the Alliance,
according to Azeri military expert Uzeir Jafarov.
-The assistance that the U.S. currently renders Azerbaijan to
strengthen the military-marine forces is a good support to the
country. Azerbaijan should not be satisfied with it, but should expand
its co-operation, not fearing from any reaction of Russia and Iran,
who protest against militarization of the Caspian,- Jafarov said.
In this regard, Azerbaijan may use assistance of Kazakhstan, which has
already commenced strengthening the military forces in its section of
Caspian with the help of the United States, the expert said.
The U.S. is willing to participate in construction of battle boats and
infrastructure for Kazakh fleet, said Vice Admiral Kevin J. Cosgriff,
Commander of the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, Trend Azeri news
agency reports.
ARMENIAN POLICE READY TO CARRY OUT ITS TASKS
YEREVAN, JUNE 14, NOYAN TAPAN. At the June 13 consultation with the
heads of the RA police, the Armenian president Serge Sargsian spoke
about the tasks, role, significance and further work of the police.
According to a press release submitted to NT by the RA president’s
press service, the head of the RA police Alik Sargsian stated that the
police system is more united than ever and is ready to carry out the
tasks given to it.