Author: Hambardsumian Paul

"IT’S NOT DISPATCHERS OF BUS ROUTES WHO DECIDE TO MAKE HEROES OUT OF COMMANDERS OF MILITARY UNITS OR NOT"

Lragir, Armenia
July 19 2007

A few days ago Member of Parliament Galust Sahakyan, member of the
council of the Republican Party, stated there is no need to make
heroes out of Vardan Malkhasyan and Jirair Sefilyan who were charged
with appeals against the constitutional order in Armenia. In a news
conference on July 19 the political secretary of the Defense of
Liberated Territories Civil Initiative Armen Aghayan responded to
Galust Sahakyan.

"It’s not dispatchers of bus routes who decide to make heroes out
of commanders of military units or not. I think Galust Sahakyan’s
statement is the evaluation of the reality that is revealed at the
court of law. The government realizes that it is time to digest
this pottage but they cannot digest for whatever reason and they
try through such pronouncements to distract attention from the main
issue that Vardan Malkhasyan and Jirair Sefilyan are innocent,"
Armen Aghayan stated.

Armen Aghayan also stated that the truth is distorted to accuse
Vardan Malkhasyan and Jirair Sefilyan, Jirair Sefilyan’s words
are extracted from the context. Jirair Sefilyan said let us not
discriminate means of change of the government. "Our wish to change
the government is great but it does not allow us make absurd moves,"
Armen Aghayan stated and explained. "Jirair Sefilyan did not speak
about changing the government through weapon and force but through
organized actions and said let us first become organized and then
speak about not discriminating the means. The people who joined the
Union of Armenian Volunteers believe that it is important to organize
people and not the opposition forces, if a figure managed to bring
together people, it would not be crucial to bring together the others."

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July 19, 2007
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THE LUCIA GROUP DONATES SPACE SAVING SHELVES TO DIOCESE

Crews from The Lucia Group, a Brooklyn-based firm specializing in storage
systems, are currently working in the Diocesan Zohrab Information Center
installing a set of modern library shelves that will add valuable storage
space to the Center.

The four, double-sided shelves will increase the Center’s work area. The
shelving system is on tracks and the shelves be compressed when not in use.
This sort of shelving unit can fit double the amount of shelf space on any
given footprint simply because it is movable.

"This will open up the front of our center to accommodate more visitors and
have space for them to read and examine the resources of the Center," said
Zohrab Center Director Rachel Goshgarian. "This generous donation by Mr.
Lucia will help us realize our goal of making the Zohrab Center even more
user friendly."

The Lucia Group is donating the $10,000 shelving units, with the Diocese
paying only for the labor to install the system. The system was originally
used by a business in New Jersey, that remodeled and asked The Lucia Group
to remove the shelves.

"You’re a Church and a non-profit and I know you don’t have enough money and
I just had these sitting there and knew you could use them," said The Lucia
Group founder and owner Craig Lucia. "They’re very important, because
you’re not just housing knowledge, you’re housing artifacts. You need space
to keep everything organized and available. You have history here and that
needs to be preserved as best you can."

This shelving system is just part of Goshgarian’s goal of revitalizing the
Zohrab Center and making it more accessible to the general public. By using
the shelving units to open up space in the small center, visitors will have
more room to read, work, and study.

— 7/19/07

E-mail photos available on request. Photos also viewable in the News and
Events section of the Eastern Diocese’s website,

PHOTO CAPTION (1): Crews from The Lucia Group install new movable shelves
in the Diocesan Zohrab Center.

PHOTO CAPTION (2): Zohrab Center Director Rachel Goshgarian with Craig
Lucia and an installation crew from The Lucia Group, a company specializing
in storage solutions that has donated $10,000 worth of movable shelves to
the Center.

ARMY OF SKINHEADS ENJOYS FREEDOM
By Aghavni Haroutiunian

AZG Armenian Daily #135
Nazism
19/07/2007

The number of nationalist young groups in Russia amounts to
141. While the number of their members have already surpassed 500
thousand. "Liberty" informed that this data were represented in the
report published by the Human Rights Bureau in Moscow. The Moscow
based lawyers state that the most severe and impudent nationalist
groups function in Moscow and St.

Petersbourg.

The report also points out that the number of attacks on grounds of
national intolerance and hatred has been grown. Thus, there had been
seven murder cases in first half of 2007, while in the first four
months of 2007, the number of murder cases has grown to 25.

The average age of the national extremists is 15-17.

Very often they unite in dvarious football clubs or around bands.

According to the Russian sociologists, state the fact that the
nationalists are young men is quite understandable. "Levada" center
states that at least 15% of the Russian youth supports the ideology
of extreme nationalist or Nazis. The experts state that the Russian
nationalist youth get very encouraged in their actions by the very
fact that the previous murder cases are not punished yet. The experts
state that the relevant state bodies prefer not to notice the actions
of the nationalists. Las year, over 500 attacks have been fixed and
only 33 cases were investigated in the court.

TURKISH COURT AGAIN POSTPONES COURT HEARING OF CASE FILED AGAINST ARAT DINK AND SARGIS SEROBIAN

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jul 18 2007

ISTANBUL, JULY 18, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Turkish court
again postponed the trial of the case filed against Arat Dink and
Sargis Serobian on the indications of Article 301 of the Criminal
Code. This information was provided by the "Cihan" agency.

The trial of the case filed against Arat Dink, the son of Hrant Dink,
the former editor-in-chief of the Weekly "Agos", and Sargis Serobian,
the responsible secretary of the Weekly, took place in the court
of Shishli on July 18, however, the latters were not present at the
trial. The lawyers of the defendants claimed from the court to acquit
their defendants. However, the court made a decision to postpone the
regular trial in order to make a study of the documents, which are
connected with the case.

It should also be mentioned that Arat Dink, the editor of the Weekly
"Agos", and Sargis Serobian, the responsible secretary of the Weekly,
appeared before the court on the charge of "insulting the Turkish
identity" on June 14.

According to the Daily "Radikal", Hrant Dink, Arat Dink, and Sargis
Serobian were charged after the interview of the former editor-in-chief
with the "Reuters" agency was published in the July 22, 2006 issue
of the Weekly "Agos", in which Hrant Dink classed the 1915 events as
"genocide."

Prosecutor Mucahid Ercan claimed to sentence the defendants to three
years of imprisonment for "insulting the Turkish identity."

AGREEMENT OF COOPERATION REACHED BETWEEN RA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY AND TURK BUSINESSMEN

Noyan Tapan
Jul 16 2007

YEREVAN, JULY 16, NOYAN TAPAN. Armenia for the second time took part
in the World Congress of Chambers of Commerce and Industry. This
year’s Congress was the fifth and was held on July 4-6 in Istanbul,
under the title "Cooperation for Prosperity." Gagik Vardanian, the
Director of the RA Chamber of Commerce and Industry, at the July 13
press conference, said that, in particular, issues of energy security,
global risks management, international trade system were discussed
at the three-day congress held with participation of 1600 delegates
from 118 countries. 23 seminars were held within the framework of
the congress on the subjects "Origin Certificates," "Information
Technologies and Electronic Trade," "Commerce Chambers and Issues
of Mental Property," "New Directions in the Sphere of Logistics and
Transportations," and others.

In G. Vardanian’s words, the RA Chamber of Commerce and Industry has
reached agreements on cooperation with the Chambers of a number of
countries, as well as with Turk businessmen.

Life as a series of bizarre theatrical sets
ByJackie Wullschlager

FT
July 13 2007 18:47

Every clown wants to play Hamlet; only rarely does Hamlet act the
clown. But in `Two Feet in One Shoe’, his installation of furiously
gestural, slithery, smeared, chaotic canvases in dark or garish
colours, Armen Eloyan is such an actor-painter. Depicting life as a
series of bizarre theatrical sets, fantasy characters, masked players,
he creates a tragicomic universe where the performance of painting is
the most absurdist drama of all.

A figure is trapped in a giant book; another stands on top of a closed
volume, refusing access to knowledge. A skeletal creature in
18th-century dress stalks a night-time park, the sky scrawled with the
words `Hold My Bones Together’. Chained decapitated geese drip crimson
beaks; anthropomorphic sausages warily eye a kitchen knife; a landscape
of purple pineapples is hatched with prison bars.

Menace and beauty, despair and vitality: Eloyan was born in Armenia in
1966 and the traditions he is parodying are east European
expressionism, folklore, Kafkaesque narrative, all crossed with a
post-Disney cartoon vocabulary, the splashy pessimism of Los Angeles
artists such as Paul McCarthy, and, mostly, memories of Soviet
oppression and mental constraint. Spanker and victim in `Bend Over’;
the puffed-up, uniformed fantasist in `Wishes and Wishes (Rex)’; the
`Nightsmoker’ rigged in wig and salmon pink ruff; a solitary top-hatted
clown in a cavernous landscape in `The Man Who Tells Fairy Tales’: what
makes Eloyan a significant talent is that his imaginary world is
brought into existence before our eyes through the exaggerations and
artifice of paint. The farcical costumes and masks of his prison guards
and dreamers are so thickly sculpted as to render them ridiculous, yet
the lack of definition makes them threatening, the harsh white light
interrogates and strips bare. It is a dashing spectacle with a strong
moral undercurrent: `The play’s the thing/Wherein I’ll catch the
conscience of the king.’

`Two Feet in One Shoe: Armen Eloyan’ is at Parasol Unit, London N1, to
July 20. Tel: +44 (0)20-7490 7373

TURKISH ARMENIANS TO VOTE FOR RULING AKP

PanARMENIAN.Net
13.07.2007 17:09 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ In terms of political parties, 60 percent of Turkish
Armenians will vote for the outgoing Justice and Development Party
(AKP).

In Istanbul’s second electoral region where a lot of people with
Armenian origins reside, they will vote for the independent leftist
candidate professor Baskan Oran, bilingual Turkish Armenian weekly
Agos editor-in-chief Etyen Mahcupyan told Tempo magazine.

He emphasized that Turkish Armenians have always voted for center-right
parties.

"Turkish Armenians will vote for the AKP. According to our reviews
in Istanbul’s second electoral region they will mostly vote for
independent candidate Baskan Oran. But excluding the independent
candidate factor, 60 percent will vote for the AKP," Mahcupyan stated,
adding that the rest of the votes will be split between pro-secular
opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), nationalist Young Party
(GP) founded by the controversial entrepreneur Cem Uzan and the
center-right Democrat Party (DP).

M. STAMBOLIAN: "IT IS NECESSARY TO BRING AN END TO TALK THAT THERE IS NO LONGER ANY ARMENIAN CINEMA"

Noyan Tapan
Jul 10 2007

YEREVAN, 10 JULY, NOYAN TAPAN. The director of the Fourth ‘Golden
Apricot’ Film Festival program, Mikael Stambolian, gave this statement
at the July 9 press conference: "It is necessary to bring an end to
talk that there is no longer any Armenian cinema. Today in Armenian
cinema positive changes are in place that these processes, in the
long run, will have serious results."

The Festival’s director, presenting the participants of the festival
program with "Armenian Panorama", emphasized the significance of
their work, having added "that all of such good work, it seems,
does not suffice as prizes for all."

The participant of the "Armenian Panorama" program, director David
Saakian, contributed the film "Four Songs" to the festival, the
occasion for the creation of which were four songs of Ruben Akhverdian:
"Raduga", "Little Ship", "Monkey", and "National Song".

The director of the documentary film "The Sanctified Grapes",
David Aslanian, presented in his work an original commentary on the
holiday of the transformation of the Holy Virgin Mary. In the words
of the director, he attempted to show to the faithful the essence of
the ceremony. "Merchants come, the feast begins, the surrounding
environment becomes dirty and the spiritual is shunted to the
background. I wanted to express my protest with this film. People must
understand that spiritual values should not erode", the director noted.

REPRESENTATIVES OF ARMENIAN CYBER SPORT WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE WORLD CYBER GAMES

armradio.am
11.07.2007 13:08

In October representatives of Armenian cyber sport will participate
in the World Cyber Games (World Championship) in Seattle (US).

President of RA Cyber Sport Federation Edgar Sahakyan told Armenpress
that only the cyber sport champions of Armenia will gain the right
to participate in the championship.

The national cyber sport championship will be held in late July or
August, and form the Armenian team on the basis of its results.

UN POPULATION FUND TO START INFERTILITY STUDY IN ARMENIA

ARMENPRESS
Jul 11 2007

YEREVAN, JULY 11, ARMENPRESS: UN Population Fund plans to start a study
next year to find major reasons accounting for growing infertility
rates among Armenian males and females.

The study is prompted by the lack of serious studies of this
subject. According to various estimation, infertility rate is about
30 percent, six-seven percent of which are believed to be primary
infertility and the rest secondary.

According to Garik Hayrapetian, deputy representative of the UN
Population Fund Office in Armenia, statistics about venereal diseases
rate and abortions is not full and needs to be rechecked.

According to Demography and Health Study (DHS), every second pregnancy
ends in abortion.

He said 75 family planning centers, scattered across the country,
can help raise the population’s awareness of these issues.