Author: Hakobian Adrine

SYNOPSYS OFFERING PROFESSIONAL VLSI EDUCATION TO ARMENIA’S YOUTH

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April 21 2009

Synopsys and State Engineering University of Armenia (SEUA) have
announced a new educational program in the specialty "Semiconductor
Physics and Microelectronics". The four-year Bachelor program
will start in September 2009, providing an advanced education in
microelectronics. This program is aimed at molding young talents for
today’s highly sophisticated VLSI chip design industry by training
them on semiconductor physics and using of latest EDA software tools.

Also this program will further progress to offering Master and PhD
qualification in the same area of study after completion of bachelor
program.

The SAED program utilizes Synopsys’ electronic design automation
software and Educational Design Kits. The current SAED SEUA curriculum
has been translated from Armenian into several languages and is taught
at prestigious universities in countries worldwide, including Russia,
China, Europe and the United States of America.

"Extending our successful relationship with SEUA, Armenia’s flagship
technical university, continues our tradition of investing in Armenia’s
youth and in Armenia’s educational system," said Rich Goldman, vice
president for Corporate Marketing and Strategic Alliances at Synopsys,
and chief executive officer of Synopsys Armenia CJSC. "Especially
during these times of severe economic stress, we believe this kind of
investment is key to the development of Armenia’s High Tech economy,
and we invite other companies to join us in supporting proven
university-industry collaborations. This new educational program
further demonstrates the advancement of Armenia’s High Tech economy."

"First of all it should be noted that through our collaboration with
Synopsys a unique educational activity is being realized. Life has
proven that this educational model serves as an example not only
to Moscow Universities, but also for many universities in a number
of countries in our region. An example of our success is that the
educational model developed in cooperation with Synopsys is being
applied to a new four-year educational project in Cybernetics
department," said SEUA Rector Professor Vostanik Marukhyan.

"By starting studies in the new specialty of Semiconductor Physics &
Microelectronics, we are expanding a model of cooperation that has
realized much success during the past few years. Establishing the new
specialty to start from the first year of the Bachelor program will
allow us to administer and control the quality of studies during the
entire program. This should contribute significantly to increasing the
quality of our graduates," said Professor Vazgen Melikyan, director
of SAED, honorable scientist of Republic of Armenia.

ANTHONY ARKIN, CANDY BUCKLEY, JESSICA HECHT, RICHARD MASUR, ET AL. SET FOR ATLANTIC’S MAKE ME
Brian Scott Lipton

TheaterMania
April 20 2009

Anthony Arkin, Candy Buckley, Jessica Hecht, J.R. Horne, Richard
Masur, Ellen Parker will star in the Atlantic Theater Company’s world
premiere of Leslie Ayvazian’s Make Me, to play Atlantic Stage 2,
May 19-June 14. The production, which will open officially on May 31,
will be directed by Christian Parker.

The play centers on six pent-up Americans in three different
relationships, exploring what happens when the rules are changed just
at the moment when people think they are perfectly comfortable and the
lengths to which some will go to be seen, heard and obeyed. Ayvazian’s
Nine Armenians won the John Gassner Outer Critics Award, The Susan
Smith Blackburn Prize and the Kennedy Center’s Roger L. Stevens Award.

The design team will include Anna Louizos (sets), Theresa Squire
(costumes), Josh Bradford (lighting), and Jill BC DuBoff (sound).

THE RECONSTITUTION OF THE EMPIRE (ARMENIA – GREECE – TURKEY – US)

American Chronicle
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April 17 2009

Australian Macedonian Advisory Council
April 16, 2009

"At the end of World War I, Turkey could have succumbed to the foreign
powers that were trying to claim its territory, or sought to restore an
ancient empire. But Turkey chose a different future. You freed yourself
from foreign control. And you founded a Republic that commands the
respect of the United States and the wider world.There is a simple
truth to this story: Turkey’s democracy is your own achievement. It
was not forced upon you by any outside power, nor did it come without
struggle and sacrifice" Barack Hussein Obama President of USA at the
Turkish national assembly in Ankara.

The fore mentioned statement of the President of USA, besides being
ignorant of history, is an insult to the memory of hundreds of
thousands slaughtered Greeks, Armenian and other nationalities by
the swarm of Attila’s descendants, which the USA’s consul general in
Smyrna, described as "The Blight of Asia" and devastated stated "I
am sick of being a human", while watching the horrible and barbaric
crimes of Mustafa Kemal…

The self-proclaimed "Turkish Republic" was founded on the blood of
the thousand innocent martyrs.

"Turkey’s democracy is your own achievement"…The US President said,
with pompous language, filling the Turks with pride! A "democracy"
that was build on the remains and the blood of thousands of innocent
people; on the ashes of "infidel" Smyrna…On the genocides of the
Greeks of Pontus and the Armenians…of the Syrian-Chaldaeans and the
Assyrians… the Greeks of Imvros and Tenedos…of Constantinople…and
of Cyprus…On the bodies of penurious Kurds and the ashes of their
4000 villages…A "democracy" that continues to live on the blood of
the Alevites, the Kurds and the last Greeks of Pontus…A "democracy"
of ERGENEKON and the GREY WOLVES…

This is Turkey Mr. Blessed (Hussein Obama)… It is this state that
slaughters are customary tradition and even though your ancestors
described as "The Blight of Asia" you stated your respect, adding
the respect "[of] the wider world"…

Mr. Obama, you are not entitled to nor deserve to refer to "our
respect". It is our inalienable right, to pay our respect where we
think we owe to…

You have bowed and attributed honor to the disrespectful Turkey…

You rewarded barbarism and tyranny, triggering the Turkish
aggressiveness against us…

We were, we are and we will be HERE…

History has taught us to withstand the slaughters, tortures,
ousting, impalements, cremations, refugees, poverty, starvation and
destructions, for thousand of years…

We know how to sacrifice ourselves, and self willing we turn to
death for our beloved Motherland… The Motherland of Callus (Beauty)
and Civilization…

This is Mr. Obama the "ancient empire" that you have pointed as the
enemy of Turkey. You have awakened the primeval and primitive instincts
of the Turks…But you have also awakened our sentiments…Contemporary
history gives all the answers.-

Quotes by Nikolaos Plastiras to the Ambassador of Great Britain
Lindley.

"Greece was an honest Ally of England. You have abandoned her but she
continued the alone. She witnessed her populations being slaughtered,
parts of her land being cut off. She may live on her one. And if
she falls we will raise a sing on cape Maleas stating that, once a
civilization flourished here, that was destroyed by the Western Forces,
with England being the leader. Convey this to your Government. That’s
all sir. We have nothing else to say. Go!"

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April 17, 2009
Contact: Michael A Zachariades
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Phone: (202) 393-3434

ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY ENSURES THAT SEARING EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE REACHES CONGRESS

Washington, DC – The Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly), as a part
of Genocide Prevention Month, will ensure that every Member of Congress
receives a copy of Grigoris Balakian’s Armenian Golgotha. The memoir,
translated by New York Times best-selling author Peter Balakian, along
with Aris Sevag, provides a detailed, firsthand account of the untold
horrors witnessed during first genocide of the 20th century.

Grigoris Balakian was an Armenian priest who was arrested, along with
250 other Armenian Community leaders, by the Ottoman Turkish government
in Constantinople on April 24, 1915. This fateful night marked the
beginning of the systematic genocide carried out by the Ottoman Turks
against the Armenians living in Anatolia.

Peter Balakian commented, "My Great Uncle Grigoris’ story is one of
survival, of hope against hope. It is full of shrewd insights into the
political, historical, and cultural context of the Armenian genocide-the
template for the subsequent mass killings that have cast a shadow across
the twentieth century and beyond. One for the ages, this comprehensive
eyewitness account will deepen our understanding about the horrors of
the Armenian Genocide and inspire our lawmakers to take action to ensure
that the Genocide is recognized and the victims are remembered."

Deborah E. Lipstadt, author of Denying the Holocaust: The Growing
Assault on Truth and Memory praised Armenian Golgotha, stating, "It
constitutes a thundering historical proof that those who deny the
Armenian Genocide are engaged in a massive deception."

On April 24, when President Obama issues his first statement on the
Armenian Genocide, the Assembly fully expects him to honor his pledge
and affirm the historical truth of the Armenian Genocide.

We encourage all people of goodwill to help us end the cycle of genocide
denial by visiting the official website for genocide recognition at
ArmenianGenocideAffirmation.com.

Established in 1972, the Armenian Assembly of America is the largest
Washington-based nationwide organization promoting public understanding
and awareness of Armenian issues. The Assembly is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt
membership organization.

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PRESIDENT OF ARMENIA: CLAIMS OF AZERBAIJAN ON ARTSAKH HAVE NEITHER LEGAL NOR HISTORICAL OR MORAL BASIS

ArmInfo
2009-04-15 13:45:00

ArmInfo. ‘Position of the Republic of Armenia regarding the Karabakh
conflict has not changed’, – Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said
in Teheran when meeting representatives of the Armenian community of
Iran, press-service of the president reported.

He also added that Karabakh must not be given to Azerbaijan as a gift
in any condition. ‘Claims of Azerbaijan on Artsakh have neither legal
nor historical or moral basis. Nagornyy Karabakh cannot be within
Azerbaijan. In this matter Azerbaijan has long ago exhausted its
trust’, – Serzh Sargsyan emphasized.

THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF UNEMPLOYMENT IS IN ARMENIA

LRAGIR.AM
14:30:45 – 14/04/2009

The General Federation of Trade Unions published the data according to
which Armenia has the highest percent of unemployment among the CIS
(Commonwealth of Independent States) countries – 6, 5 % by January
2009; the regnum informs. The lowest level of unemployment is in
Kazakhstan and Belarus, where it does not reach 1 percent. The
unemployment arrives at 2, 3 percent in Russia, and 1 in Azerbaijan.

"SCREAMERS" TO BE SHOWN IN OXFORD

PanARMENIAN.Net
14.04.2009 00:47 GMT+04:00

On Wednesday April 22nd the undergraduate society Aegis, which promotes
awareness of genocide around the world, is hosting a screening of
the film "Screamers" at Rewley House in Oxford.

Chronicling the efforts of Armenian rock band System of a Down to
persuade both the British and U.S. governments to recognize the
Armenian Genocide, Screamers also traces the history of modern-day
genocide – and genocide denial – from the first occurrence in the
20th century in Turkey, to today in Darfur.

Commentary and interviews with Pulitzer prize-winning author Samantha
Power ("A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide"),
survivors from Turkey, Rwanda and Darfur, FBI whistleblowers, and the
recently assassinated Hrant Dink, who was murdered in Turkey after
appearing in this film, shed light on why genocides repeat.

Tehran Times
April 12 2009

Persian manuscripts to go on display in Armenia

Tehran Times Culture Desk

TEHRAN — An exhibition of Persian manuscripts will be opened at the
Scientific Research Institute of Old Manuscripts of Matenadaran in
Yerevan from April 14 to 20.

A total of 500 Persian manuscripts preserved in the Matenadaran Museum
will go on display during the exhibition.

On April 7, the fourth volume of `The Persian Decrees of Matenedaran’
series by Kristine Kostikyan was also unveiled at the museum during a
ceremony that was attended by several Iranian and Armenian officials.

Holding manuscript exhibit shows that Iranians and Armenians care
about the preservation of their scientific achievements since ancient
times and also for the reading of books, mentioned Armenian Minister
of Education and Science Spartak Seyranyan during the event.

Persian manuscripts are carefully preserved at the museum as are
Armenian documents kept by Iranians at the Vank church in Isfahan,
Madenataran director Hrachya Tamrazian told at the ceremony.

Iran’s cultural attaché in Yerevan Mohammadreza Shakiba said
during the ceremony that interchanges between civilizations are
possible through books and such an exhibition is an epitome of
friendship between the two countries.

In 1950, the first volume of a series entitled `The Persian Documents
of Matenadaran’ was published, which contained the Persian-language
decrees of the 15th-16th centuries. They were deciphered, studied,
translated into Armenian and annotated by Hakob Papazyan.

In 1968, in the same three-language version (Persian, Armenian and
Russian), H. Papazyan published a second series of the documents,
which included the estate certificates of the 14th-16th centuries. The
following volume was again devoted to decrees and included 43
documents issued in 1601-1650.

It is planned to prepare and publish also all decrees from the second
half of the 17th to the 18th and 19th centuries as well as the estate
certificates of the 14th-16th centuries.

Photo: A page from a historical manuscript version of Ferdowsi’s
Shahnameh

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Worldmeets.us
April 11 2009

Stars, Stripes and the Muslim Crescent

"Despite the commitments to support Israel that are required of every
America chief executive, Israel may soon find itself on a collision
course with Barack Obama. Only in refusing to submit to Israel, as so
many of his predecessors have found themselves obliged to do, will
Obama have truly brought this region its fair share of change."

Source: L’Orient Le Jour, Lebanon
EDITORIAL By Issa Goraieb
Translated By Elise Nussbaum
April 9, 2009

Barack Obama’s recent visit to Turkey was symbolically loaded. It was
Turkey that played host to the last stage of the American President’s
specifically European tour: what more effective, concrete way could
there be of repeating that in the eyes of Washington (whether the
resistant and skeptical like it or not), this country is an integral
part of the Old Continent – and, consequently, that it has the right
to knock at the door of the European Union?

Beyond the jibes that he sportingly and even cordially exchanged with
the French, who are hostile to the idea of integrating Turkey, the
White House chief’s argument is of interest. Turkey occupies a unique
position in the world precisely because it has an overwhelmingly
Muslim population and yet is a member of the Atlantic Alliance; its
integration into Europe would make it a model to follow for that
portion of the Arab-Muslim world that has been plagued by
extremism. All of this, of course, depends on whether Ankara’s
government promotes reform, particularly with regard to religious
freedom, and that it shows a willingness to cooperate so that the
painful memory of the 1915 Armenian Genocide can finally be cleared
away. What the public discourse omits in so many words is that Turkey
must also – must importantly – provide all kinds of logistical help to
America in that country’s quest to extricate itself from Iraq and
Afghanistan with some dignity.

Though Obama has managed to clear the air of the Turkish-U.S. quarrel
that erupted under Bush, it is in regard to Islam that his approach
stands out most clearly from that of his Republican
predecessor. Immediately after the anti-American attack of September
11, 2001, George W. Bush, either through neoconservative dogmatism or
simple clumsiness, alienated much of the Arab-Muslim world by speaking
of a holy crusade against terrorism. His extreme – and extremely
deadly – invasion of Iraq, the unconditional support he accorded
Israel and the short shrift he gave to the Palestinian question
throughout most of his time in office didn’t help matters.

Posted by WORLDMEETS.US

President Barack Obama addresses the Turkey National
Assembly in Ankara, April 6. WATCH

Masterfully playing on his own multicultural roots, meeting
dignitaries of all persuasions in Istanbul, Bush’s successor offers,
in contrast, friendship and partnership. He found it necessary to
remind everyone that the United States is not and will never be at war
with Islam. Many Americans have Muslims in their families ¦ "I know
because I’m one of them," added Obama, to the ovations of Turkish
National Assembly members. Remarkable for its skillfulness – though
not surprising – is his approach to the Palestinian question, which he
outlined in Turkey: holding fast to the principles of the Annapolis
Conference, the roadmap and the principle of a two-state solution, but
also calling for the mutual concessions needed for a resolution of any
conflict this complex.

The trouble is that by doing so, Obama is preaching to the converted
on one side – the Arabs, who have long been resigned to making
concessions to stay afloat – and on the other side, he suffers the
affronts of Israeli irredentists. The destroyer of the Oslo Accords,
Benjamin Netenyahu continues to officially rule out any possibility of
a Palestinian state. "Annapolis is the past," shouted Israeli Foreign
Minister Avigdor Lieberman last week – to which another minister added
that Israel doesn’t take orders from the President of the United
States.

That is to say, despite the commitments to support Israel that are
required of every America chief executive, Israel may soon find
itself, whether it likes it or not, on a collision course with Barack
Obama. Only in refusing to submit to Israel, as so many of his
predecessors have found themselves obliged to do, will Obama have
truly brought this region its fair share of change.

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METN’S ARMENIANS WILL VOTE EVEN AFTER THEY SECURED PAKRADOUNIAN’S VICTORY

Al-Tayyar
April 10 2009
Lebanon

Tashnak to resist relaxation and set to vote in the ballots as a
"display of force".

Imad Marmal-

It might come to many that the Metn election battle ended early for
the Tashnak party, with the victory of its candidate for the Armenian
seat "Hagop Pakradounian" now finding itself with an absence of a
competition. However, those who know what is happening behind the
scenes of the party know that this is not the case, because what is
left of the battle is incentive enoughand stimulates the Tashnak to
keep a large amount of "electoral appetite".

The March 14 forces have avoided the nomination of an Armenian
candidate in the face Pakradounian in the Metn, for several
considerations relating to the requirements of their alliance with
MP Michel Murr; however, the Tashnak leadership builds its accounts
on another type of data that make them certain of their ability to
achieve a numerical surprise at the ballot box, contrary to their
opponents expectations and their allies fears.

The leadership of Tashnak consider the elections in the constituencies
where the party has a presence, as districts with multiples objectives,
some are related to the broad heading that are a subject of political
controversy in the country, including those linked to internal
considerations associated with the balance of power in the Armenian
Street. Thus according to such coordinates, the Tashnak party’s first
issue becomes not only to ensure the victory of the party’s candidates,
but to ensure the largest possible number of votes that would allow the
victory to become more eloquent in the expression of the Armenian role.

In this context, it can be said that the resolution of the seat for
the Armenian Pakradounian by acclamation does not end the Metn battle
for the Tashnak, but it might have only changed its concept, which
means it has turned it from being elections to becoming a referendum
on the party’s policies and in two directions:

– The first one is the overall political direction, as the Tashnak
wants, by ensuring the intensity of votes in the ballots, to express
its harmony with the opposition’s line and to assure its alliance
with the Free Patriotic Movement and MP Elie Skaff, on the basis of
a common political project, and therefore they felt that his role is
not limited to securing the seat to its candidate, but also to support
the entire list as being an integral part of an undividable entitity
"for better and for worse".

– The second direction falls in the intent of demonstrating their
powers and the reality of the popular weight of the Tashnak party
in the face of what its opponents are saying, whether in or outside
the Armenian Street, about the decline in the party’s popularity. The
party, in this context, is keen to prove that it is still the dominant
player that cannot be ignored or reduced, contrary to the case of
the other two parties, Ramgavar and hanchak that are accused of being
melted in the pot of the Futures Movement.

– Most probably, there might be another potential incentive for
the Tashnak’s voters,to vote profusely on the ballot in the Metn,
although Pakradounian has already booked his seat in the parliament,
which is the "old account" with the Phalange Party, against the harsh
position that had been taken by Former President Amin Gemayel against
the Armenians after the 2007 parliamentary elections in Metn, where
many people will find a favorable opportunity to respond to it with
"a retroactive effect", through the ballot box.

Furthermore, we can see the Tashnak party is keen to prepare all
their voters in different ways to participate, intensely, in voting
in the forthcoming elections. Firstly to ensure sending the message
of all of the above mentioned reasons, and secondly to ensure even
better numbers then the ones they achieved in the 2005 elections,
when approximately 8600 Armenians had voted for their candidate and
his allies candidates. Therefore, the Tashnak electoral machine is
working intensively and in various districts to ensure that their
voters are ready in Metn equally with the rest of the other regions,
proving that the body of their electoral machine is one, and will
work full blast in all regions.

Finally, there remains the Tashnak’s biggest ambition to revive the
"good old days" by having their own bloc, based on the following
parameters:

– Support the Presidency of the Republic, because of what it
represented as the symbol of the state and its legitimacy.

– Insistence on the principle of consensus and partnership in
exercising power and support the formation of a government of
national unity.

– Building the relationship with Syria on the bases of mutual respect
and good-neighborliness.

– Address the economic and financial situation with solutions to the
bad situation that has been governing Lebanon since 1992.

– Discuss the fate of the resistance weapons calmly, on the table of
dialogue, and the defensive strategy, even if this dialogue may take
years, even though the Tashnak party resulted primarily by resisting
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