Un Premier Vol Erevan-Van Prevu Pour Le 3 Avril

UN PREMIER VOL EREVAN-VAN PREVU POUR LE 3 AVRIL

Le premier vol Erevan-Van est prevu pour le 3 avril selon l’agence
Novosti-Armenie citant Ashot Soghomonyan, directeur de ” Narekavank
Tour “.

Le premier vol d’Erevan vers Van ville situee dans l’est de la Turquie
a ete initialement prevue pour septembre 2011.

” Il y aura deux vols Erevan-Van-Erevan par semaine, les mercredis
et dimanches ” a dit Ashot Soghomonyan.

Le coût du billet est de 250 $, mais les passagers peuvent obtenir
un rabais de 20% au cours du premier mois.

Borajet Turkish Airlines effectuera le vol sur des avions de 68 sièges.

mardi 12 mars 2013, Stephane ©armenews.com

ISTANBUL: Istanbul Armenians

Today’s Zaman, Turkey
March 10 2013

Istanbul Armenians

ETYEN MAHÇUPYAN
e.mahcupyan@todayszaman

It is hard to be an immigrant…These people rejected and isolated in
their own country have to travel to an unknown country and culture,
probably without sufficient financial means to survive. This adventure
undertaken by them without knowing the language, rules, traditions of
the country they are going to, leads them to lands in which they will
be strangers and will always remain strangers… Their only hope and
point of resistance is the new and secure life they will give to their
children. The first generation sacrifices itself and expects this
sacrifice to be praised even if it does not say it openly. However,
even though it is somewhat possible to keep the next generation under
cultural discipline, the grandchildren, in particular, adapt to this
new culture and are detached from the traditional culture. Hence,
alienation among generations surfaces and past sacrifices become a
topic of conversation remembered only by its funny aspects.
Elderliness for the first generation immigrants always implies sadness
and solitude…

Just as the elderly in the family perceive this act of scattering that
takes place before the very eyes of the people as a kind of
deculturalization, the immigrants also seek ways of becoming a
community. Because a community means an organization producing common
grounds and values. The communities established remind the immigrants
of their language, religion and artistic accumulation and to teach
their children about these. Marriages within the community make this
common culture concrete and reinforce it. However, all these are not
enough for the community to reproduce itself the same way: Facing the
crushing effect of the host culture, the gap between home and street
widens, the immigrant family becomes a stranger to the public sphere
in the street, makes this alienation normal in its inner world and
creeps into its own shell, into its home.

This process triggers an identity need that exceeds the daily
lifestyle which surrounds it and also makes it more meaningful.
Because, every human being needs the `street,’ that is to say, the
public sphere and the public sphere that cannot be acquired in the new
country is new being sought in the motherland… Social and political
events of the abandoned country become more and more the basic focus
of attention and a `diaspora’ comes into being… This position
peculiar to itself, uniting the policies of the old country and the
daily life of the new one, produces an identity that is equal to the
power of the motherland. Therefore, in examples where the motherland
is weak, the diaspora turns to an additional source of identity,
generally to history…

However, I must confess that the night organized by Istanbul Armenians
in Melbourne, Australia reflected more than this state of mind. I have
just returned from this trip, and I will probably not be able to
forget one of the peak points of the trip, that night when nearly 200
people danced the `halay’ in the accompaniment of Armenian, Greek and
Arabic songs, sang songs in Turkish in a chorus and wept… An elderly
Istanbul Armenian young at heart, dropping his walking stick and
dancing as the `misket havasi’ ( a Turkish folk music) began, will
remain engraved in my mind. Istanbul Armenians are both inside and
outside the line that goes from immigrantship to the diaspora… It is
impossible not to perceive a thousand-year Anatolian resistance behind
all those years they have spent in another land; however, what is more
important is their supporting this past as a whole, their becoming the
real men of that land… This is what presumably makes them healthy…

Dec 2, 2005

http://www.todayszaman.com/columnistDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=27062

Former presidential contender argues with police in Armenia’s Gavar

Former presidential contender argues with police in Armenia’s Gavar

NEWS.AM
March 09, 2013 | 15:11

GAVAR. – Prior to his assembly on Saturday in Gavar city, which is the
regional center of Armenia’s Gegharkunik Region, opposition Heritage
Party Chairman, former FM Raffi Hovannisian – who is declared runner-up
to the winner, incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan, as a result of the
presidential election that was conducted on February 18, but who
claims to be the real winner in the vote – was approached by a police
officer who stated that Hovannisian’s rally is not sanctioned, and
therefore its organizers and participants may be held accountable.

In his turn, Hovannisian stated to the officer of the law that the
people have the right to assembly.

`No. I declare that the rally was not sanctioned,’ the police officer
maintained. In response, Heritage’s vice-chairman Ruben Hakobyan
stated as follows:

`Learn the laws, and you will see that the people do have the right to
assembly, whereas the police have no right to disperse the people.’

Armenians stage demonstration in France

Armenians stage demonstration in France

March 09, 2013 | 14:21

PARIS. – Representatives from the Armenian Revival movement, which
supports Armenia’s opposition Heritage Party Chairman, former FM Raffi
Hovannisian – who is declared runner-up to the winner, incumbent
President Serzh Sargsyan, as a result of the presidential election
that was conducted on February 18, but who claims to be the real
winner in the vote – , gathered Friday in front of the Armenian Embassy
in Paris, Nouvelles d’Arménie monthly of France informs.

`They came together to say `no’ to the unlawful regime and government
[of Armenia]. The movement, which questions the results of the 2013
presidential elections, is convinced that as long as power [in
Armenia] is seized by the oligarchs and it serves the interests of an
insignificant portion of the population, Armenia cannot come out of
the impasse,’ the monthly reports.

Also, the representatives of the movement petitioned to Armenia’s
Ambassador to France with a request to express a `public criticism.’

The Armenian Revival group calls for, `assisting the Armenian people,
who now are raising their heads and demanding an account.’

Following the picket, two movement representatives, who were escorted
by the police, handed the respective letter to the Embassy, where they
were not received.

http://news.am/eng/news/143705.html

Armenian President receives SDHP representatives

Armenian President receives SDHP representatives

NEWS.AM
March 09, 2013 | 16:26

YEREVAN. – Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan on Saturday received a
delegation led by Chairman Setrak Adjemian of the Social Democratic
Hunchakian Party (SDHP) Central Committee Board.

First, the SDHP Central Committee Board chief congratulated Sargsyan
for being reelected President and wished him success during his second
tenure, the President’s Press Office informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.
Adjemian highly appreciated the activities of President Sargsyan and
the Armenian government and stressed that, despite the existing
problems, Armenia is on the path of reforms and that considerable work
has been done.

The SDHP Central Committee Board head assessed the February 18
presidential vote as progress, as compared to the former elections,
and stated that this progress recorded a positive reaction in the
international arena, too.

Setrak Adjemian also praised Armenia’s policy toward the
Syrian-Armenians in the country, and the great attention being shown
to them.

Noting that the Armenian nation still has difficult challenges to
surmount, the SDHP representatives underscored unity to solve the
nationwide problems, and reaffirmed their party’s readiness to
continue assisting Armenia’s authorities to resolve these matters.

In his turn, the President of Armenia stressed that he highly
appreciates the traditional Armenian political parties’ – including the
SDHP – historical role played in addressing nationwide issues, and
highlights the Social Democratic Hunchakian Party’s willingness to
collaborate.

Leçons de sagesse avec Ésope en langue arménienne…

L’ Orient-Le Jour, Liban
Jeudi 7 Mars 2013

Leçons de sagesse avec Ésope en langue arménienne…

Rendez-vous annuel des amoureux de la scène en langue arménienne au
thétre Hagop Der Melkonian (Bourj Hammoud). À l’affiche, « Le Renard
et les raisins » du Brésilien Guilhermo Figuereido.

Leçons de sagesse avec Ésope qui inspira à La Fontaine, devant
l’incapacité de satisfaire nos désirs, cette phrase lapidaire : « Trop
verts, ils sont bons pour des goujats ! »
Salle comble pour la première autour des fables d’Ésope.

Une tragi-comédie signée Guilhermo Figuereido, dramaturge contemporain
décédé en 1997, où le thétre, dans un sillage sagement
«pirandellien», prend la voilette de l’histoire antique.

Pour asséner de belles leçons de réflexion et de comportement devant
la cupidité, l’arrogance, la vanité et la fatuité des êtres.

Et tout cela en remontant à Samos, bien avant l’ère christique.
Dans un décor dépouillé mais efficace (avec cependant un point
disgracieux dans le tableau : des micros noirs qui pendouillent en
l’air comme des tarentules géantes), fait de voilages en gaze blanc et
rose sur quelques colonnes ioniennes, avec sculptures de feuilles
d’acanthes.

Colonnes se profilant sur une étoffe satinée représentant un fond bleu
d’azur méditerranéen.

Entre ciel et terre, sur une terrasse brassant l’air du large,
par-delà intrigues et complots sous un même toit, six personnages en
quête de richesse, paix de l’esprit, liberté et amour.
Dans cet intérieur livré à tous les vents, vit un couple bourgeois et
frivole, formé par la belle Cléa et son pompeux mari Xantus.

À leur service, la dodue camériste Méli qui en pince pour le patron.

Arrive dans ce chaudron conjugal branlant, Ésope le fabuliste,
personnage à la laideur répugnante, rusé, bossu, au nez en éteignoir
de bougie, mais pétillant d’intelligence et de sagesse, malgré son
statut inférieur d’esclave.

Un vrai renard.

Un manipulateur pour ces cervelles d’oiseau et, contre toute attente,
qui volera même le coeur de l’épouse que la vertu et la fidélité
n’étouffent guère…

Ajoutez à cette brochette un Éthiopien tout noir, muet, pour cravacher
l’esclave et un centurion au casque en crête de coq pour semer la
zizanie et enivrer, en une soirée bien arrosée, le maître des lieux.

Et lui soutirer, mine de rien, tous biens et dignité…

Sur ce canevas boulevardier, très style vaudeville avec revirement de
situations (mais sans portes qui claquent !) et quiproquos, un peu
loufoque et caricatural, entre deux répliques cocasses et envolées
philosophico-métaphysiques, le renard regarde avec envie ces «raisins»
(comprendre la beauté de Cléa, le pouvoir d’argent et de liberté de
son maître, ainsi que son rêve et son besoin de voyager au loin) mais,
sachant la témérité de ses désirs, ne succombe pas à ses tentations.
Traduite dans une langue arménienne usuelle simple, cette pièce (un
peu trop longue avec ses actes qui durent plus de deux heures !)
aurait gagné à être abrégée, allégée.

Avec des costumes d’une exquise élégance (Alice Avakian), dans une
mise en scène (signée Yervant Ghazandjian, arrivé d’Erevan il y a un
mois et demi pour mener à bien l’entreprise) sobre et quelque peu
académique, sans trouvailles scéniques réelles et un démarrage lent,
les personnages campent habilement leurs rôles farfelus et un peu
disjonctés.

Cléa (Arpie Soghomonian Karamlian) ne se contente pas d’être
séduisante (en rose ou en blanc) mais a de l’éclat et un jeu juste.

Xantus (Harout Manouguian), même s’il oublie parfois son texte, reste
sympathique dans sa balourdise et sa gestuelle grandiloquente.

Méli est délicieuse (Christina Srapanian) dans sa déclaration d’amour
non partagé.

Le centurion (Hovakim Kechichian), toujours hagard et perdu,
baragouine ses «oui» et ses «non» en ttonnant, pour retrouver ses
mots ou son texte!
La palme du meilleur acteur revient sans conteste à Harout Torossian.

Il incarne un Ésope plus vrai que nature.

Émotion, sensibilité, maîtrise du regard, du geste et de la voix, dans
le cadre d’un thétre très classique, très conventionnel.

Sa prestation nuancée donne du nerf à une pièce qui oscille entre
humour et mélo, avec un discours parfois verbeux et sentencieux.

Un bon moment de thétre, malgré longueur et certains creux, où
divertissement, drôlerie, culture, morale et réflexion (effet de
miroir pour un pays comme le nôtre, rongé par le consumérisme, les
apparences clinquantes, le renversement des valeurs, la rapacité et
l’anarchie) font un heureux ménage.

Pour une bonne prise et remise des consciences!

EU should appoint new special envoy to Minsk Group – view

ITAR-TASS, Russia
March 9, 2013 Saturday 05:31 PM GMT+4

EU should appoint new special envoy to Minsk Group – view

BAKU March 9

– The EU should appoint a new special envoy to the OSCE Minsk Group,
which mediates in the Karabakh settlement, said Ali Gasanov, head of
the social-political department of the Azerbaijani president’s staff.

In an interview with Belgium’s New Europe on Saturday, Gasanov said,
“We hope that the EU will be able have a strong impact on the
settlement of the conflict. At present, France represents the EU in
the Minsk Group. But we believe that in the future the European Union
should appoint its special envoy to the Minsk Group. This will help
strengthen the EU positions in the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict.”

At the same time, the Azerbaijani official stressed, “One cannot talk
about general security in Europe if peace is not ensured in the South
Caucasus.”

Commenting on relations with Russia, he said Azerbaijan considered it
“the major player in the region”.

“We believe it natural that Russia has its interests in the region. We
maintain partnership with the EU, which is our neighbour. That is why
I won’t share relations between Azerbaijan and Russia, and between
Azerbaijan and the EU. We don’t want to make any choice. Russia and
the EU are our good partners and we cooperate with them based on our
national interests,” Gasanov said.

He noted that Russia was the main gas and oil supplier to Europe. “We
also supply gas and oil to Europe. But we aren’t competitors because
Russia has its market and we have our own market,” Gasanov added.

He emphasised that Azerbaijan was not a member of the Collective
Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), which had been founded on
Russia’s initiative.

However, Gasanov said Azerbaijan was not a NATO member. “Thus, our
position on security is independent. Of course, we are NATO’s partner
in different structures. But we are not NATO’s member and we’re not
planning to join the Alliance,” Gasanov said, adding that Azerbaijan
“has no plans to join the CSTO”.

Art: The Art of Armenian Artist Hakob Hakobian

ianyan Magazine
March 10 2013

Arts & Entertainment

The Art of Armenian Artist Hakob Hakobian

Posted by Liana Aghajanian on March 10, 2013 at 1:00 pm

Famed Armenian painter Hakob Hakobian (Hakobyan) passed away March 8
at the age of 89. Born in Egypt to refugee parents fleeing the
Armenian Genocide and educated at the Melkonian Armenian School in
Cyprus, Hakobian relocated to Soviet Armenia in 1962, staying there
until his death.

His art is currently part of a new exhibition of Soviet and
contemporary art from Central Asia and the Caucasus that opened just
four days before his death at the Sotheby’s auction house in London
called `At The Crossroads: Contemporary Art From The Caucasus And
Central Asia.

Henrik Igityan, founder of the first Museum of Modern Art in the USRR
once described Hakobian’s art `quite accesible, while demanding deep
penetration and complexity,’ according to Sotheby’s catalogue notes on
Hakobian written by Sabina Sadova. `Hakobyan introduced a new facet to
Armenian art, a facet that makes him powerful from colorists.’

More from Sotheby’s catalogue notes:

`His palette is calm and dominated by muted ochres and brown hues. His
linear, mostly vertical calculated compositions convey feelings of
displacement,nostalgia and muteness. Hakobyan’s motifs contain none of
the traditional Armenian elements as established by Saryan, though the
feelings expressed by his works intimately reflect the feelings of
Armenians towards their land and their turbulent past. His works exude
a very contemporary feel.’

`…there is a language of symbols that the artist develops in order to
construct his own version of Armenian national identity. The road is a
symbol that carries a special meaning to the Armenian people. It
illustrates the history of frequent and forced resettlement that
shaped Armenian identity. The mathematical precision of Hakobyan’s art
is perhaps as important for its understanding as the symbols he uses.
The road and the pole are present in most of Hakobyan’s landscapes in
both his early and late periods.’

Hakobian was also featured in the 2009 film `Armenian Exile’ by
Canadian-Armenian Hagop Goudsouzian. `I also don’t know what Armenian
means,’ he tells the camera, `yet I am Armenian. It wasn’t my
decision. It’s nature’s decision, a decision that took thousands of
years.’

Here’s a slideshow below featuring Hakobian’s works, Learn more about
this famed Armenian artist here.

http://www.ianyanmag.com/2013/03/10/the-art-of-armenian-artist-hakob-hakobian/

LA Armenian Community to Honor Richard Hovannisian at March 16 banqu

L.A. Armenian Community to Honor Richard Hovannisian at March 16 banquet

20:11, March 10, 2013

One of the world’s most renowned Armenian scholars, Prof. Richard
Hovannisian, will be bestowed with the Narekatsi Medal in recognition
of his outstanding achievements as a historian, teacher, and defender
of the Armenian cause at a March 16 banquet organized by The Friends
of the UCLA Armenian Studies Program.

The highly anticipated community event will take place on Saturday,
March 16, at the Armenian Society of Los Angeles Hall, in Glendale,
California.

Dignitaries and community leaders participating in the event will
include, among others, Archbishop Hovnan Derderian, Primate of the
Western Diocese; a representative of Archbishop Moushegh Mardirossian,
Prelate of the Western Prelacy; Armen Hovannisian, vice-chair of the
Armenian Bar Association; Alice Petrossian, former president of the
Association of California School Administrators, chief academic
officer-deputy superintendent of the Pasadena Unified School District,
assistant superintendent of the Glendale Unified School District, and
currently a commissioner on the Los Angeles County Commission for
Women; several representatives of the Armenian Educational Foundation;
and Ara Khachatourian, editor of the English edition of Asbarez.

The banquet will kick off with a reception and book exhibit, beginning
at 6 p.m. in the foyer of the dining hall. The exhibit will feature
Prof. Hovannisian’s many publications, including The Republic of
Armenia series and the proceedings of the landmark `Historic Armenian
Cities and Provinces’ project.

The main program will start at 7 p.m., when banquet co-chairs Ani
Aivazian and Hilda Fidanian will introduce the evening’s Mistress of
Ceremonies, Alice Petrossian.

Later in the program, a short video documentary on the life and
achievements of Prof. Hovannisian will be shown, and congratulatory
remarks by Professor David Myers, chairperson of the UCLA History
Department, will be conveyed.

One of the highlights of the event will be an onstage interview
between the honoree and Ara Khachatourian. Subsequently there will be
an artistic interlude, featuring a violin performance by Mari Haig,
with piano accompaniment.

After Speros Vryonis, UCLA professor emeritus of history, introduces
Prof. Hovannisian, the Narekatsi Medal will be presented to the
honoree, who will then deliver his acceptance remarks.

At press time, a limited number of tickets to the banquet were still
available, the Friends of the UCLA Armenian Language and Culture
Studies said. Tickets ($125 for general admission, $70 for students
with current ID) can be purchased by calling (323) 668-2609 or (818)
249-3330.

http://hetq.am/eng/news/24289/la-armenian-community-to-honor-richard-hovannisian-at-march-16-banquet.html