Author: Jagharian Tania

Russia`s Ambassador meets with MPs of Prosperous Armenia Party

Jagharian Tania
Arminfo, Armenia

ArmInfo. Ambassador of Russia to Armenia Sergey Kopyrkin met with members of Prosperous Armenia Party, Vice-Speaker of the RA Parliament Vahe Enfiajyan and Chairman of the Standing Committee on Regional and Eurasian Integration Issues of the National Assembly, Mikayel Melkumyan.

According to the press service of the Russian diplomatic mission, the  meeting was held at the Russian Embassy. “During the conversation,  the parties discussed the development of Russian-Armenian inter-  parliamentary relations, the assistance to Russia in the fight  against coronavirus infection provided to Armenia both in a bilateral  format and within the framework of general integration associations.  The parliamentarians also shared their vision of some aspects of the  host country’s internal political agenda”,  it is noted in the  message of the diplomatic mission.

As ArmInfo previously reported, on June 14 the National Security  Service conducted surches in the mansion of the oligarch and leader  of the Prosperous Armenia party Gagik Tsarukyan, after which he was  summoned for interrogation by the NSS. Law enforcement authorities  suspect him of illegal entrepreneurial activity in the field of  gambling, as a result of which the state was damaged in the amount of  $ 60 million, as well as in bribery of voters in 2017 and illegal  appropriation of land in the village of Arinj, Kotayk region. On June  16, the Armenian Parliament approved the motion of the Prosecutor  General of Armenia Artak Davtyan to deprive Tsarukyan of his  parliamentary immunity and bring him as the accused in a criminal  case, up to and including imprisonment. The head of the PAP said that  he continues to consider the criminal case against him a political  persecution, and that he has no connection with the management of the  companies attributed to him. 

Pashinyan comments on decline in prices of face masks

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 11:44, 4 June, 2020

YEREVAN, JUNE 4, ARMENPRESS. During the meeting with Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, Chairman of the State Commission for the Protection of Economic Competition Gegham Gevorgyan expressed hope that the prices of face masks will further decrease.

“Yesterday the SCPEC Chairman reported that the prices of face masks declined to some extent, also thanks to the actions taken, and there is hope that the price will further decline”, PM Pashinyan said live on Facebook today.

Armenia made compulsory wearing face masks in all public places starting June 4 to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

According to the latest data, 697 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Armenia, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 11,221. The death toll has reached 176. The total number of recovered people is 3,468. The active cases stand at 7,509.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

Artsakh soldier dies in car crash

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 17:36, 3 June, 2020

YEREVAN, JUNE 3, ARMENPRESS. Soldier of Artsakh’s Defense Army Sargis Ghulyan, born in 2001, has died on June 3 as a result of a car accident, the defense ministry of Artsakh told Armenpress.

Investigation is underway to clarify the details of the incident.

The defense ministry of Artsakh offers its condolences to the family, relatives and co-servicemen of the soldier.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

1 new COVID-19 case reported in Artsakh

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 20:47,

YEREVAN, MAY 19, ARMENPRESS. Artsakh has received the results of the 27 coronavirus tests sent to Armenia vor examination, according to which 26 are negative and 1 is positive, ARMENPRESS was informed from the Informational Center of Artsakh, quating the Healthcare Ministry.

The new case is a family member of an earlier recorded case and had been isolated.

By now 29 cases have been recorded in Artsakh, 8 of which have recovered. A total of 581 citizens have been tested and 69 have been isolated, while Armenia has recorded 5041 cases. 2164 have recovered, 2788 are active cases. Death toll is 64 in Armenia.

Reporting by Anna Grigoryan, Editing and translating by Tigran Sirekanyan

Plane from China carries new batch of medical supplies to Armenia

Jagharian Tania
Public Radio Armenia
May 15 2020


Today, a plane from Beijing, China, transported the latest batch of essential personal protective equipment purchased by the United Nations World Food Program for the Armenian Ministry of Health to equip Armenian medical facilities fighting COVID-19.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has worked with the Armenian government and its partners to transport 125,000 pieces of personal protective equipment to Armenia to protect health workers at the forefront, including 80,000 medical uniforms and protective equipment – glasses, face shields, etc.

WFP was able to purchase equipment worth $ 1 million thanks to donations from the My Step Foundation, the Izmirlian Foundation, the Galust Gulbenkian Foundation, the St. Sargis Humanitarian Foundation, and the Armenian General Benevolent Union, the support of Eduardo Eurnekian’s companies, as well as the Office of the Chief Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs in the Republic of Armenia.

The air transportation was organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

As long as the needs continue to grow, WFP continues to seek support from its partners so that it can provide support to the Armenian population and government during this difficult time.

All over the world, the United Nations is uniting its forces and working with governments to make medical equipment available to people in need. In Armenia, the UNHCR, in cooperation with the UN Resident Coordinator and the WTO, is in charge of the freight forwarding sector to assist the Government of Armenia and its partners in supplying medical equipment, food and non-food items. Thanks to the strong partnership with the national authorities, the aircraft will continue to transport medical equipment from Armenia and the world’s key hubs to Armenia.

Armenian healthcare minister addresses congratulatory message on International Nurses Day

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 11:31,

YEREVAN, MAY 12, ARMENPRESS. Healthcare Minister of Armenia Arsen Torosyan addressed a congratulatory message on the International Nurses Day.

Armenpress presents the message:

“Today the International Nurses Day is celebrated in several countries of the world. May 12 was chosen in honor of the birthday of Florence Nightingale, founder of the nursing service, and since 1974 this occasion is used to congratulate and again express words of gratitude to the persons holding this humanitarian profession.

Dear nurses, your mission is very important, especially these days, in such a difficult and responsible work. Accept my warm congratulations and be aware that you are appreciated. It’s difficult to imagine the work of doctors without nurses because you are the ones who directly work with the patients during the whole treatment process. This dedication saves lives.

Be sure that your care and smile are more than demanded during the whole recovery process of the patients.

Stay firm, and let optimism and patience always be with you during these difficult days.

I wish you good health, peaceful sky, family warmth and new achievements”.

 

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

Iran’s coronavirus cases increase by 1,683

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 15:24,

YEREVAN, MAY 11, ARMENPRESS. According to the latest data, the number of people infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Iran has increased by 1,683 bringing the total number of cases to 109,286, the Armenian Embassy in Iran said on Facebook.

45 more deaths have been registered in the past one day. The death toll has reached 6,685.

2,703 coronavirus infected patients are in serious condition.

The number of recovered people increased by 1,279 raising the total number of recoveries to 87,422.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

Central Bank of Armenia: exchange rates and prices of precious metals – 11-05-20

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 17:22,

YEREVAN, 11 MAY, ARMENPRESS. The Central Bank of Armenia informs “Armenpress” that today, 11 may, USD exchange rate up by 1.91 drams to 486.02 drams. EUR exchange rate up by 1.48 drams to 526.21 drams. Russian Ruble exchange rate up by 0.01 drams to 6.59 drams. GBP exchange rate up by 1.39 drams to 601.01 drams.

The Central Bank has set the following prices for precious metals.

Gold price up by 104.64 drams to 26627.32 drams. Silver price up by 0.92 drams to 234.08 drams. Platinum price up by 46.55 drams to 11844.44 drams.

Asbarez: Sebouh Aslanian Appointed Director of UCLA’s Armenian Studies Center

Jagharian Tania
May 8, 2020

Professor Sebouh Aslanian

Professor Sebouh Aslanian was appointed the inaugural director of UCLA’s Armenian Studies Centers, which is housed within the UCLA Promise Armenian Institute.

The announcement was made Thursday by Prof. Cindy Fan, UCLA’s Vice Provost for International Studies & Global Engagement in a message to colleagues.

As the holder of the Richard Hovannisian Chair in Modern Armenian history, Professor Aslanian manages the academic activities of his chair and teaches courses in the department of history on such topics as the three-part “Armenia and Armenians in World History,” graduate seminars such as “Port Cities and Printers: An Introduction to Early Modern World and Armenian History,” and the survey class “The Middle East, 1100-1700: From the Crusades and Mamluks to the Age of the Gunpowder Empires.”

The Armenian Studies Center is housed within The Promise Armenian Institute (PAI), and Professor Aslanian will work closely with PAI inaugural director Professor Ann Karagozian.  PAI is a groundbreaking new entity within the UCLA International Institute.  Made possible with a $20 million gift from the estate of Kirk Kerkorian, the largest gift that the International Institute has received, The Promise Armenian Institute positions UCLA to build significantly upon its more than 50 years of history of Armenian Studies.

This new institute is the hub for world-class research and teaching on Armenian Studies including the Armenian Studies Center, and for coordinating new and ongoing research and public impact programs across UCLA, from social sciences to health sciences, from humanities to music, the arts, to engineering, and from public policy to management. The Promise Armenian Institute’s size, scope, and interdisciplinary approach make it the first of its kind in the world.

Professor Aslanian is author of the award-winning book From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa (University of California Press, 2011) as well as numerous scholarly articles on Armenian History and Armenian Studies.  His recent articles include “‘Many have come here and have deceived us’: Some Notes on Asateur Vardapet (1644-1728), An Itinerant Armenian Monk in Europe,” Handes Amsorya, Zeitschrift Fur Armenische Philologie (2019); “Une vie sur plusieurs continents Microhistoire globale d’un agent arménien de la Compagnie des Indes orientales, 1666-1688,” Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2018); “From ‘Autonomous’ to ‘Interactive’ Histories: World History’s Challenge to Armenian Studies,” An Armenian Mediterranean, Words and Worlds in Motion (2018); and “The Great Schism of 1773: Venice and the Founding of the Armenian Community of Trieste,” Reflections of Armenian Identity in History and Historiography (2018).  He is currently working on two book projects.  The first is a history of early modern global Armenian print culture and is provisionally titled Early Modernity and Mobility: Port Cities and Printers Across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512-1800. Under contract with Yale University Press, the book rethinks in novel and insightful ways both the role of mobility in the early modern period in global history and the rise and development in that history of Gutenberg print culture across the early modern diasporic Armenian communities in the port cities of the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean world.  The second book project is provisionally titled Signed, Sealed, and Undelivered: The Voyage of the Santa Catharina and a Global Microhistory of the Indian Ocean, c. 1738-1756.”  A narrative microhistory of trade and politics in the early modern Indian Ocean, the book relies on 2,000 pieces of mercantile and family correspondence, commercial contracts, and other papers stored on an Armenian-freighted ship, the Santa Catharina and seized by the British navy in 1748. The book unpacks these letters, now stored at the High Court of Admiralty, and probes them to understand economic, cultural, and political histories of Indian Ocean arena and emerging commercial and contractual isomorphism in the age of Empire.

Armenian government provides direct assistance to more than 1 million citizens

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 12:35, 6 May, 2020

YEREVAN, MAY 6, ARMENPRESS. More than 1 million people in Armenia received direct assistance from the government as part of the measures for eliminating the consequences of the coronavirus outbreak, PM Nikol Pashinyan said in parliament.

He reminded lawmakers that the government enacted 16 different anti-crisis measures.

“As a result of these we have already managed to provide concrete assistance to over 21,000 businesses by providing privileged loans. And more than 1 million people received direct assistance from the government,” he said.

Pashinyan said the first purpose of the anti-crisis action was to avoid panic, and to ensure the healthcare system’s capacity for treating coronavirus patients. The number of infectious diseases hospital beds were increased from 300 to 1500, and an additional 150 beds will be commissioned soon.

600 beds at hotel/hospitals have been prepared for asymptomatic cases.

“More than half of our cases are people who carry the coronavirus but don’t have any symptoms. And our policy for them is to simply isolate them in order to prevent transmission. We have prepared 2300 hotel beds for isolating direct contacts. Over 6000 people were isolated during this period,” Pashinyan said, adding that the authorities also prioritized safeguarding the dignity of citizens involved.

He also emphasized the rapid stabilization of the financial market, noting that unlike many other countries Armenia did not suffer a market collapse and inflation was effective managed.

Reporting by Anna Grigoryan; Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan