Author: Jalatian Sonya

SEMINAR OF JOURNALISTS AT STEPANAKERT PRESS CLUB

KarabakhOpen
17-06-2008 09:35:23

On Sunday a seminar of journalists took place at Stepanakert press
club, which was organized by the Civil Society Institute (Armenia).

Journalists from the Netherlands, Armenia, Italy, Lithuania and
Karabakh took part in the seminar. Similar seminars were held
in Martakert, Martuni and Shushi. The purpose of the seminar
is discussions of the topic we and others, journalist exercise,
writing of articles for the Your and My Newspaper which is published
by volunteers.

Rugile Andzukevichute from Lithuania said in an interview with
Karabakh-Open.com they are volunteers who have been living in
Armenia for already 7 months and every month their newspaper visits
one of the regions of Armenia. It was their initiative to arrive in
Karabakh. Christiana Nicoletti from Italy said they wanted to meet
with their peers in Karabakh, work with the youth because meeting
the local people is quite different from reading an article about
Karabakh in the Internet. Christiana says Karabakh is an Armenian
territory and at the same time it borders with Armenia, and it was
very interesting to talk to the people of Karabakh about it. Lusine
Gasparyan from Karabakh says it was interesting to hear how others
evaluate us. Lusine thinks such events should be held more often.

NKR PRESIDENT MEET WITH MANAGERS OF EXPOMEDIA COMPANY

ARKA
June 12

President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Bako Sahakyan held
a meeting with representatives of the Expomedia exhibition company
Anna Hakobyan and Ruben Oganezov.

The Chief Information Department, NKR presidential staff, reports
that the sides discussed the organization of trade and industrial
exhibitions in Stepanakert.

President Sahakyan stressed the importance of holding exhibitions of
this kind. He pointed out that effective organization of exhibitions
requires comprehensive measures.

The meeting was attendee by NKR prime Minister Ara Harutyunyan and
Minister of Urban Development Anahit Vardanyan.–0–

"CHESS GIANTS" TOURNAMENT NAMED AFTER KAREN ASRYAN

armradio.am
12.06.2008 12:17

Taking into consideration the exceptional achievements and considerable
contribution of outstanding chess player, triple champion of Armenia,
Olympic Champion Karen Asryan to the development of chess, on June 11,
2008 the Chess Federation of Armenia took the decision to rename the
"Chess Giants 2008" international tournament into Karen Asryan’s
Memorial Tournament. The tournament will become traditional.

The decision was signed by the President of the Republic of Armenia,
President of the Chess Federation of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan.

LAST FAREWELL TO KAREN ASRYAN

armradio.am
11.06.2008 17:48

The Armenian society today bid the last farewell to Chess Olympic
Champion, triple Champion of Armenia, winner and prize-holder of any
international competitions, Grand Master Karen Asryan, 28, who died
on June 9.

RA President Serzh Sargsyan, Speaker of the National Assembly Tigran
Torosyan, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, thousands of citizens came
to the Chess House today to bid farewell to Karen Asryan. They extended
their condolences to his family and friends.

All Armenian and foreign participants of the "Chess Giants 2008"
international rapid chess tournament Levon Aronyan, Vladimir Hakobyan,
Gabriel Sargsyan, Peter Leco, Michael Adams, Xiangzhi Bu, Alexander
Morozevich and Boris Gelfand also paid last tribute to Karen Asryan.

It was noted that Karen Asryan’s death was a great loss for the
Armenian chess and the Armenian society. He was one of the brightest
figures of international chess, who lived a short but memorable life.

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN CALLS FOR BUSH IMPEACHMENT

PanARMENIAN.Net
10.06.2008 15:46 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Democrat Dennis Kucinich introduced a 35-count
resolution to impeach U.S. President George W. Bush, claiming that
the president set out to deceive the nation, and violated his oath
of office with the Iraq war.

Addressing the House of Representatives on Monday evening, the
Ohio congressman and former presidential candidate accused the
administration of a number of offenses, including lying to Congress
and the public about its reasons for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

He said Bush "fraudulently" justified the war on Iraq and misled "the
American people and members of Congress to believe Iraq possessed
weapons of mass destruction so as to manufacture a false case for war."

"President George W. Bush, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable
offense warranting removal from office," Kucinich said.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Congress would not pursue the
impeachment of Bush saying it was "off the table," RIA Novosti reports.

Last time impeachment process was launched against President Bill
Clinton in 2000 over the Lewinski case.

Clinton was accused of sexual harassment and abuse of power. However,
he succeeded to avoid impeachment.

AMBASSADOR OF ARMENIA TO CHINA VAHAGN MOVSISIAN DIES SUDDENLY

Noyan Tapan

Ju ne 10, 2008

YEREVAN, JUNE 10, NOYAN TAPAN. Vahagn Movsisian, the Ambassador of
Armenia to the People’s Republic of China, died suddenly on June 10,
at the age of 47. Noyan Tapan was informed about it by the RA Foreign
Ministry Press and Information Department.

Vahagn Movsisian was born in 1961. In 1983 he graduated from the
Mechanization Faculty of Yerevan Agricultural Institute. In 1986 he
maintained a candidate thesis and received the degree of candidate of
technical sciences. In 1989-1990 he studied at the High Commercial
School attached to the USSR government, in 1991-1993 at the Russian
Academy of People’s Economy. In 1989-1993 he worked in the top links
of ArmRosgazprom, then of the Prometevs company. In 1993-2000 he
worked in the banking system of Armenia. In 2000-2007 he worked as
Executive Director of the Armenian Development Agency, Secretary of
the Council for Assistance to Business under the RA Prime Minister,
Secretary of the Council for Assistance to Development of Information
Technologies under the RA Prime Minister. In 2007 he was appointed
Ambassador of Armenia to the People’s Republic of China.

TURKISH NUMISMATIST TO SELL HIS COLLECTION OF OTTOMAN BANKNOTES

Turkish Press
June 10 2008

ANKARA – Prominent Turkish numismatist has decided to sell his Ottoman
banknotes collection, the most comprehensive collection of Ottoman-era
banknotes in the world, in an international auction.

Mehmet Tezcakin, a third generation member of the family that owns
the historic meatball restaurant in Istanbul’s Sultanahmet district
known as "Tarihi Sultanahmet Koftecisi", put his collection for sale
through London-based auction company Spink after his initiatives to
keep the collection in Turkey failed.

In an interview with the A.A, Tezcakin said, "I started collecting
Ottoman banknotes with a few ones I inherited from my grandfather
some 20 years ago. For two decades,I have gathered almost all types
of Ottoman banknotes that entered circulation."

"I decided to put the collection up for sale six months ago to afford
passing on our restaurant to the next generation. Since I do not prefer
that someone from abroad purchases this collection, I tried to sell
it in Turkey as a whole. But, I could not find a purchaser. Now, this
unique collection will be sold in an international auction. Israeli
and Arab numismatists have showed great interest in the collection,"
he said.

The collection includes many unique samples such as the first
handwritten banknote of the Ottoman Empire, the first counterfeit
Ottoman banknote dated 1870 and the world’s one and only paper
currency printed in four separate languages (Ottoman, French, Greek
and Armenian).

Saudi Arabian numismatist Ahmad al Jafari offered 1 million USD to
purchase 25 pieces from the collection.

DEFENCE SPHERE TO BE IN FOCUS OF RA GOVERNMENT’S ATTENTION, SEYRAN OHANIAN STATES

Noyan Tapan

Ju ne 9, 2008

YEREVAN, JUNE 9, NOYAN TAPAN. This year defence problems will be in
the focus of RA government’s attention. RA Defence Minister Seyran
Ohanian stated at the June 9 meeting with journalists. According
to him, the government will come up with a legislative initiative,
the goal of which is to expand civil control over Armed Forces. A
special attention will be paid to social problems of freedom-fighters,
perished and disabled, as well as current servicemen.

The Minister said that this year the law On Defence is envisaged to
be adopted. At present the bill is at the stage of discussion. This
year it is also envisaged to modernize Armed Forces armament and
military equipment. In particular, communication automatic management
system, border positions’ engineering equipment will be improved,
and the number of fighting positions will be increased in a number
of populated areas.

According to S. Ohanian, 26 border populated areas of Armenia are in
the the immediate danger of bombardment. 21 out of them are in the
Tavush region, 5 in the Yeghegnadzor region. He attached importance
to the necessity to pay a special attention to border populated areas.

Beeline calls its subscribers not to trust in the ‘Nigerian letters’

2008-06-06 21:50:00

ArmInfo. Over the last week Beeline mobile communication subscribers
received a big number of SMS-messages allegedly about big lottery
winnings. As ArmInfo was informed from press-service of ArmenTel, one
of the standard types of the ‘Nigerian letters’ is used: a subscribers
receives a message about big lottery winning, after that certain, not
so big amount of money is taken from him. Beeline calls its subscribers
to be more careful and not to trust in such false information.

From: Catholicosate of Cilicia <[email protected]>
Subject: ANTELIAS: Live TV Broadcast of The Blessing Of Holy Muron 6/7/08

PRESS RELEASE
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E- mail: [email protected]
Web:

PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon

Armenian version: nian.htm

LIVE TELEVISION BROADCAST OF THE BLESSING OF HOLY MURON FROM ANTELIAS – June
7th, 2008

The Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International (LBCI) will broadcast
the Blessing of Holy Muron by His Holiness Aram I, from St. Gregory the
Illuminator Cathedral in Antelias, on Sunday 15 June 2008.
For the Americas 11:00 (EST time), 08:00 (PT time)
Europe – 05:00 (UTC/GMT)
Australia – 08:30 (Sydney time)

The Noursat Broadcast will be broadcasting the Blessing of Holy Muron LIVE,
beginning from 16:00 UTC/GMT. Check your local listings for broadcast dates
and times in your area below.

You can watch Noursat live in Middle East, North Africa, Europe, North/South
America, Far East and Australia.
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For the installation or any technical inquiry kindly call the following
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Downlink Frequency: 10949
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