Author: Kalantarian Kevo

MINISTRY OF CULTURE IS NOT AWARE

yerkir.am
19:00 – 29.09.2011

It turned out that in the State list of Cultural and historical
monuments there~Rs not one note concerning Officer~Rs house, which was
rich with frescos. It was destroyed and at the same place Piazza Grande
is built. Same destiny had occurred to Gilanyan~Rs lemonade factory,
Janpoladyan~Rs theatre, built in 1883 and other constructions that
have been destroyed years ago.

Even today Ministry of Cultural does not acquire data of how many
buildings have been destroyed in order to construct other buildings
in Yerevan throughout these years.

According to a study of the General Prosecutor’s office during
2000-2006, 29 historical and cultural buildings have been destroyed.

ON 30 SEPTEMBER ARTSAKH REPUBLIC PRESIDENT BAKO SAHAKYAN CHAIRED A MEETING OF THE NKR SECURITY COUNCIL. ISSUES RELATED TO ARMY BUILDING WERE DISCUSSED DURING THE MEETING

Friday, 30 September 2011 12:44

Defense Minister Movses Hakobyan delivered corresponding reports.

The President noted that the Defense Army is the main guarantee of
our country’s security and the raising its fighting efficiency on is
of pivotal directions of the state building process.

Bako Sahakyan gave concrete assignments to the government and defense
ministry for proper realization of the discussed issues.

The Security Council also discussed issues related to organization of
solemn events in connection with the Victory holiday, 20th anniversary
of the Artsakh Republic Defense Army and liberation of Shoushi.

President Sahakyan assigned the Cabinet of Ministers to form a
governmental commission on the organization and systematization of
the solemn events.

Defence minister of the Republic of Armenia Seyran Ohanyan, other
officials partook at the meeting.

HRAPARAK: ARMEN GEVORGYAN VISITS FORTUNE-TELLER

Tert.am
10:24 ~U 01.10.11

The paper claims that some of rich Armenians and government officials
have strange taste and traditions.

One of them builds his own house copying the design and architecture
of the building of the National Assembly.

Another owns an entire zoo, while a third one builds a church next
to his house so that to secretly repent for his sins at nights.

Also the paper claims that some oligarchs and officials are regularly
visiting a fortune teller to find out what the stars foresee about
the future.

The paper claims that one such official is Armen Gevorgyan, Minister
of Territorial Administration and Deputy Prime Minster.

SARKOZY: EUROPE HAS A MORAL OBLIGATION TO HELP GREECE

Tert.am
10:23 ~U 01.10.11

Europe has a moral obligation to help Greece, according to the French
president.

Nicolas Sarkozy made the statement on Friday after a meeting in Paris
with the Greek Prime Minister, as Europe struggles to find a united
voice on the bloc’s debt crisis, Euronews reported.

“Greek people are determined to make the necessary changes,” he said.

“We are making the sacrifices and we will live up to our part of the
decisions we’ve taken. Our responsibilities, making all the necessary
reforms, first of all because we want to change Greece and make Greece
a competitive, socially just and transparent country”.

The French President says he will meet the German Chancellor in the
coming days to discuss Europe’s handling of the crisis.

Nicolas Sarkozy said: “The failure of Greece would be a failure of the
whole of Europe. There is no other credible alternative. Yes, there
is a moral obligation of solidarity. But there is also an obligation
for economic solidarity. It is not possible to leave Greece behind.”

Earlier this week Sarkozy said he was working on a plan for a new
Franco-German approach to solving the debt crisis, but he gave no
concrete details.

BERTRAND DELANO SERA A EREVAN LE 25 ET 26 OCTOBRE
Krikor [email protected]

armenews.com
samedi 1er octobre 2011

FRANCOPHONIE-ARMENIE

Du 25 au 26 octobre se derouleront a Erevan, la conference
internationale des villes de la Francophonie et presence de plus de
200 mairs. Le chef de la diplomatie armenienne Edouard Nalbandian,
lors d’une rencontre avec les journalistes le 28 septembre a donne
quelques informations sur ce rassemblement. E. Nalbandian a egalement
assure que Bertrand Delanoë, le Maire de Paris et president de
l’Association internationales des villes franophones se rendra en
Armenie pour cette manifestation.

Krikor Amirzayan

STEFI SERVES UP ARMENIAN BAKED GOODS AT DEARBORN FARMERS MARKET
By Sandra Boulton

Patch.com
Sept 30 2011

Stefi Hovious, a Northville resident but long-time lover of Dearborn,
has become a popular staple around the market this year.

Stefi Hovious has been selling specialty baked goods, from
traditional Armenian pastries and pies to original recipes that grew
from experimenting in the kitchen, all season long at the Dearborn
Farmers Market.

“My biggest thrill is seeing that I have pleased people’s palates
and now that extends from my home to the Market” says Hovious, owner
of AnoushStefi.

Anoush means sweet in Armenian, according to Hovious, who chose the
name because it reflected how she started her business last year:
baking sweet pastries for sale. Shortly thereafter, she added savory
goods into the equation and continues to sell them both today.

A former Ford employee for 35 years, Hovious resides in Northville
but considers Dearborn her second home after spending so many working
years in the community. She started the bakery business after losing
her job and looking for a way to help supplement income.

Hovious has a passion for baking that spans many years, often
entertaining family and friends in her home, so this seemed like
a natural extension. Now she and husband Earl take the show on the
road and sell Hovious’ homemade specialties in four markets in the
area-including Dearborn.

Hovious had a hard time choosing her favorite item that she bakes,
but said, “My special cream cheese cookies are a customer favorite
and, according to my husband, they are to die for. These cookies are
wrapped like a cigar, the dough is made with cream cheese, butter
and flour and they are filled with ground walnuts and sugar, then
sprinkled with powdered sugar.”

She also regularly bakes katah, cheoreg and bourma-all sweet Armenian
pastry treats. Katah is like a coffee cake, usually with a filling
inside. Cheoreg is a sweet pastry bread and bourma is a sweet nut roll.

Another mouth-watering specialty item that Hovious bakes is called
khadayif. “It is shredded filo dough, and I put heavy whipping cream
thickened with vanilla in the center, bake it and drench it with
sugar water,” she described. “That is a delicacy.”

As for the savory department, pies are stuffed with lamb, spinach
or cheese. She finds that anything with lamb seems to be popular,
but it changes each week.

“Sometimes it is fickle, and all my spinach sells in a certain week,”
she explained. “Tastes and markets change week to week.”

She finds it challenging to prepare for the markets because of this
fluctuation, sharing that her baking is very labor intensive and
she isn’t always sure what is going to move the next day. Building
a steady clientele does help, as people try something once and then
return to purchase it again. These repeat customers give her great joy,
because it means they enjoy her baking.

AnoushStefi is in the Dearborn Farmers Market every other
week. They also take special orders and can be reached by email
[email protected] or by calling 248-515-0309. The Dearborn Farmer’s
Market is open every Friday from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. now through the end
of October and is located in the Muirhead Plaza by the Bryant Library.

NEW BOOK DEVOTED TO CONTEMPORARY ARMENIAN POETRY

US Fed News
September 29, 2011 Thursday 10:18 AM EST

FRESNO, Calif., Sept. 29 — California State University Fresno issued
the following press release:

The Fresno State Armenian Studies Program and The Press at California
State University, Fresno have published “Armenian Poetry of Our Time,”
translated by poet Diana Der-Hovanessian.

“Armenian Poetry of Our Time” is the third book published in
the recently established Armenian Series at The Press, under the
supervision of series editor Barlow Der Mugrdechian, coordinator of
the Armenian Studies Program at Fresno State.

The book is a collection of poems composed in Armenian by 117 poets,
spanning a broad period of modern Armenian literature. The poets are
from Armenia or live in other parts of the world where they or their
families settled in the Armenian diaspora that followed the early
20th century genocide by Ottoman Turks.

Der-Hovanessian has published 25 books of poetry and translations,
including the groundbreaking “Anthology of Armenian Poetry,” which
was released in 1978.

“Armenian Poetry of Our Time” can be ordered for $20 a copy from
Fresno State’s College of Arts and Humanities, at 559-278-6758.

RUSSIAN CULTURE MIN SAYS CONDUCTOR OF STATE ORCHESTRA HUMILIATED MUSICIANS

ITAR-TASS, Russia
September 29, 2011 Thursday 07:34 PM EST

Era of the musicians like conductor Mark Gorenshtein has gone,
Russian Culture Minister Alexander Avdeyev told Itar-Tass Thursday.

“Mark Gorenshtein is good enough as a performer and conductor,”
Avdeyev said in a comment on his own order to fire Gorenshtein from
the position of chief conductor of Russia’s State Academic Symphony
Orchestra. “However, he happened to be totally unprepared for leading
as highly-rated an orchestra as this one.”

“His method of humiliating human dignity is unacceptable and the
epoch of musicians of his kind is gone forever,” he said.

The incident that triggered the scandal around Gorenshtein occurred
during this years Tchaikovsky International Competition. During
a rehearsal with cello finalist Narek Hakhnazaryan of Armenia,
the conductor addressed the musicians with the following remark:
“You shouldn’t care a dime of what this newly presented talent,
this aul /the word used in many parts of the Caucasus to denote
a mountainous village, in this case, a symbol of backwardness –
Itar-Tass/ is playing. You must play together with me.”

The remark stunned the reporters attending the rehearsal and their
efforts to circulate it in the media produced a resounding public
effect.

The situation was made worse for Gorenshtein by the fact that the
rehearsal was broadcast live via the Internet to all parts of the
world.

Gorenshtein had to make excuses later by saying this was “a
conversation within the orchestra’s collective, in the first place.”

Secondly, his words did not contain any trace of nationalism because
“nationalistic moods are absolutely alien” for himself personally
and for the State Academic Symphony Orchestra.

Narek Hakhnazaryan accepted his apologies but members of the
Tchaikovsky competition organizing committee found the conductor’s
words insulting.

“The Tchaikovsky competition is called upon to support young performers
and this obliges each organizer and participant to show genuine
respect and attention to the talented young musicians,” a spokesman
for the organizing committee said.

At the end of August, the Yevgeny Svetlanov State Symphony Orchestra
musicians wrote an open letter to the Ministry of Culture asking the
authorities to relieve Mark Gorenshtein of his duties for what they
described as “despotism” and “unhealthy atmosphere in the performing
collective.”

Culture Minister Alexander Avdeyev signed an order to fire Gorenshtein
Wednesday, September 27.

KEVORKIAN PAINTINGS, MEMORABILIA TO BE AUCTIONED
By Mike Martindale The Detroit News

The Detroit News, MI
Sept 30 2011

Southfield – An auction of Jack Kevorkian paintings and memorabilia
planned next month will include the ex-pathologist’s trademark golf
hat and baby-blue cardigan sweater – and even one of his Mercitron
assisted suicide machines, his friend and former attorney Mayer
Morganroth said Friday.

Twenty-three oil paintings done by Kevorkian, who died in June at
the age of 83, will be auctioned off in a two-day public event set
for Oct. 27 and 28 at the New York Institute of Technology in New
York City, Morganroth said.

“We were trying to keep this quiet but someone leaked it out,”
Morganroth said Friday from his Southfield offices. “There has always
been a lot of interest in Jack Kevorkian and people involved in this
expect some competitive bidding.”

By his own count, Kevorkian assisted in more than 130 deaths of
terminally ill patients. He went to prison on a second-degree murder
conviction and served seven years, nearly dying behind bars from health
ailments. He was paroled in 2007 under conditions which included he
not participate in any more assisted suicides.

Morganroth said 14 of the paintings are currently on display at the
Armenian Library and Museum of America in Boston, where they have
been on display for a dozen years. Some others are in California and
have been hung at homes of friends and relatives.

Many of the oil paintings, which some viewers have found disturbing
because of their graphic nature involving death and dying, have been
displayed at the Arianna Gallery in Royal Oak. The gallery has sold
many Kevorkian prints over the years, Morganroth said.

“And there is Kevorkian art out there we will probably never see,”
Morganroth said. “There were 10 paintings stolen out of a storage
area in California several years ago that have never been found.”

Kevorkian’s clothing also will go up for bid. Items include cardigan
sweaters, golf hat and a tuxedo he wore to the Emmys when an HBO film
about his life starring Al Pacino was honored.

Those interested can also bid for a bulletproof vest, “which Jack
actually wore for a while,” Morganroth said.

Morganroth said Kevorkian’s family and friends have been approached
by several auction companies interested in the memorabilia and “felt
the time was right.”

A portion of proceeds will go to Kicking Cancer for Kids, a charity.

The majority will go to his only niece, Ava Janus, Morganroth said,
who is supervising the proceedings.

Kevorkian also left behind many scholarly papers and treatises that
are being donated to the University of Michigan, Morganroth said.

“He was truly unique,” he said. “I have never met anyone else like
him. He was one of a kind.”

AZERI PROTESTER DETAINED OVER OBJECTION TO ARMENIAN SPORTSMEN’S ARRIVAL IN BAKU

Baki Xabar, Azerbaijan
Sept 27 2011

Deputy chairman of the Karabakh Liberation Organization Ilqar Aliyev
has been detained for participating in a protest against the arrival
of Armenian sportsmen in Azerbaijan.

The protest was held on 25 April outside Sarhadci Sports Complex in
Xatai district of Baku against the participation of Armenian sportsmen
in the world boxing championship hosted by Azerbaijan. Members of
the Karabakh Liberation Organization managed to enter the hall of
the contest and voice their protest.

Aliyev has been sentenced to ten days of imprisonment. He will serve
his sentence in Binaqadi district, Media Forum website reported
this with reference to the press service of the Karabakh Liberation
Organization.