PanARMENIAN.Net – Armenia‘s position in the latest FIFA ranking has remained unchanged for a fourth month after the country’s national football team dropped two notches in June to take the 100th spot.
France and Belgium share the first and second spots, while Brazil comes in the third.
Meanwhile, Turks and Caicos Islands, Bahamas and Tonga come in the bottom end.
Sergey Smbatyan, artistic director and chief conductor of the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, will lead a concert at Teatro dell’Opera in Rome dedicated to the 2800th anniversary of Yerevan.
The evening will feature works by Armenian composers Komitas, Aram Khachaturian, Edgar Hovhannisyan and others.
Violinist Hayk Kazazyan will be the soloists at the concert. Duduk player Kamo Seyranyan will also play with the orchestra.
The event has been organized by the Armenian Embassy in Italy.
Director of National Security Service Arthur Vanetsyan claims that he has never influenced the judicial system.
Speaking at a press conference today, Vanetsyan commented on the sound recording of a wiretapped phone conversation between him and Special Investigative Service director Sasun Khachatryan.
“If we were to be able to influence the courts and judges, to intervene in judicial processes, believe me then many who have been set free wouldn’t be free today,” he said.
Asked how the wiretapping has happened, Vanetsyan said it is too early to speak about it now. “I can’t answer it at this moment, as to how the wiretapping occurred, who has done it. I can say that the NSS has the technical possibility for wiretapping. However I don’t think that there are traitors in our service who can wiretap the conversations of their director. I don’t rule out that certain people were able to buy special equipment with big money and commit the wiretapping,” he said.
He added that the investigation will give answers. “If there are traitors they should be held to account”, he said.
PanARMENIAN.Net – Evangelos Papadakis, an actor and director working in Athens, Greece, will direct the Casus Belli theater group in a production of “Beast on the Moon”, Uwosh.edu reports.
Kalinoski said the play is about vulnerable refugee people struggling to keep their hopes alive while having lost everything as a result of the Armenian Genocide in 1915.
“A century after the Armenian genocide, we are still witnessing identical ‘pictures’ of human loss. Why?” Papadakis said.
Casus Belli will run Kalinoski’s award-winning play from Nov. 19 to Jan. 29, in the Simeio Theater, in Athens. Kalinoski is an internationally renowned theatrical playwright and faculty member at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.
“In such an unstable political environment where ‘refugees’ are a major political issue for Greece and for the rest of Europe, there is no better way of dealing with this theme than putting on stage, Beast on the Moon,” Papadakis said.
He speaks of the thousands of refugees from the Eastern countries that had to leave their homes, go to Istanbul and travel through the Mediterranean Sea to Greece, to Europe, to find a better life. Instead many found death.
“They were drowned. And those who survived death lost their families, lost their dignity, lost their identity,” Papadakis added. “What can be their future? How are they going to create new lives in foreign places? How can we—citizens of the Western world—show empathy for those less fortunate people?”
In the result of measures taken within the criminal case investigated in the Investigative Division of Shengavit administrative district of Yerevan Investigative Department of the RA Investigative Committee the motive of young woman’s murder, a number of circumstances significant for the case were found out. Charge was pressed against 38 year-old man.
The young woman’s body with numerous cut-pierced injuries was found on August 30, 2018 in one of the houses of Araratyan Street of Yerevan which the woman had rented.
Through inspection of the scene bloodlike traces, fingerprints, a knife with a bloodlike trace were found.
In the result of urgent actions conducted within the criminal case the woman’s murder was disclosed, the person having committed the alleged crime was identified, his relation with the victim, the motive of the argument were found out.
Pursuant to preliminary investigation data the incident took place on the early morning of April 30, 2018. During the argument about personal matters the woman was stabbed for more than 65 times with a cutting-piercing item which caused her death.
On the base of the evidence obtained through the criminal case investigated in the RA IC Shengavit administrative district of Yerevan Investigative Department charge was pressed against the man, born in 1980, according to the Part 1 of the Article 104 of RA Criminal Code. Detention was chosen as a pretrial measure against him.
Preliminary investigation is ongoing.
Note; Everyone charged with alleged crime offence shall be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law.
PanARMENIAN.Net – Armenia‘s judo team will not leave for Baku to participate in the World Championship set to be held in the Azerbaijani capital on September 20-27.
The reason behind such a decision is Azerbaijan’s failure to provide security guarantees for of the Armenian athletes.
As reported earlier, Arsenal midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan may not travel to Baku on October 4 for a Uefa Europa League group stage tie against Azerbaijani champions Qarabag over the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. New Gunners boss Unai Emery has expressed hope, however, that the Armenian midfielder will be able to travel to Azerbaijan.
Head of the Special Investigation Service Sasun Khachatryan commented on the proposal of 2nd President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan to disclose the confidentiality of the preliminary investigation over the 2008 March 1 criminal case.
The SIS chief told reporters after today’s Cabinet session that there is no procedure of revealing the confidentiality of the preliminary investigation.
“Can you imagine what will happen if the confidentiality of the preliminary investigation is disclosed in the whole? There are people who cooperate with the preliminary investigation, provide operative data. Can you imagine what will happen if all this is declassified?”, he said.
He stated that the confidentiality refers only to the preliminary investigation stage. “During the trial the case is investigated in the court in an open-door format if it doesn’t contain state secret. And the confidentiality of the preliminary investigation derives from the interests of both the case and persons, therefore I don’t think that such demand is realistic”, the SIS chief said.
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Dr. Jane L. Mahakian, Ph.D. President, Alzheimer's Care Armenia
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PanARMENIAN.Net – British 4×4 manufacturer, Land Rover, has recently announced that it will continue to provide support to the development of a hiking trail dubbed the Transcaucasian Trail – a 750 km prototype hiking route stretches the length of Armenia – the British Embassy in Armenia said in a Facebook post.
In 2017, with the help of local and international support, the first portion of the trail in Dilijan National Park was opened to hikers. With the help of Land Rover the Transcaucasian Trail Armenia team plan, over the next two years, to develop the remaining sections of the trail connecting the other provinces of Armenia from the Iranian to the Georgian border allowing people to walk the length of Armenia on hiking trails.
The aim of the Transcaucasian Trail is to contribute to improved access to the region’s diverse cultural and natural heritage and encourage its preservation, benefiting local communities and trail users through the development of sustainable tourism.
A specially modified Land Rover Defender, one of the most adaptable and versatile 4x4s in the world, will be provided to the Transcaucasian Trail team to survey the route and to transport the equipment, materials and crew members needed to complete the work. The Defender, named “Georgina,” has been specially modified to provide living facilities, GPS and communications technology, and enhanced off-road and recovery capabilities.