Author: Kalantarian Kevo

DEAD SOLDIER’S PARENTS DON’T KNOW THEIR SON DIED

epress.am
09.07.2011 17:07

Amberd Mayor Manvel Babayan only told the parents and family members of
Hayk Lazarian, the 19 year-old soldier who died earlier today at his
outpost in Nagorno-Karabakh, that the boy had been seriously wounded,
reports Hetq Online.

Only Hayk’s brother Ruben knows that the boy will not be returning
home. His mother still clings to the hope that her son will recover
and be united with them in the Armenian village of Amberd.

The boy’s father, Vasil, who has been working in Russia for the past
year, only knows that his son was severely wounded. He plans to fly
back to Armenia tonight.

Neighbours, who know the truth of the matter, told Hetq that they just
cannot bring themselves to tell the mother and sisters what actually
has happened.

No one from the Etchmiadzin army commissariat, where Hayk was
conscripted, has seen fit to make the trip to Amberd and break the
news to the soldier’s family.

One Amberd resident said it was a shame the way the army has failed
to take responsibility for the soldier’s death and is calling on local
residents to protest in front of the Government Building in Yerevan.

Local residents as well don’t want to break the news to Hayk’s mother
Yeranuhi.

We spoke to Ruben at a neighbour’s house, so that Yeranuhi and other
family members would not overhear the truth.

Ruben kept his emotions in check, hitting the door with his clenched
fist.

The brother told us that no one had yet paid the family a visit from
either the army commissariat of the Ministry of Defense.

Colonel Hakob Azatyan, from the Etchmiadzin Commissariat, told us
that he had personally informed family members about Hayk’s death.

“The relatives know that their boy is dead. I told them personally.

As to whom I told specifically, let’s not discuss such details on
the telephone,” Colonel Azatyan said.

Local residents told us that earlier today one of the relatives called
up the commissariat to verify that an accident had taken place. This
was the extent of Colonel Azatyan’s “message”.

Ruben told us that he had gone to Nagorno-Karabakh to see his brother
on Aug. 14 and that Hayk had told him that everything was fine.

Hayk was supposed to have been drafted in Nov. 2010. The first medical
examination uncovered a head scar and doctors suspected that the boy
might suffer from psychological problems.

Hayk was examined a second time and eventually drafted a month later.

Ruben told us his brother wanted to serve in the army and would go
to plead his case personally to the commissariat if he was rejected.

“Hayk decided to go to Russia after being discharged from service.

He wanted to work and save enough to buy a car, Ruben said.

Rumours are spreading in Amberd that Hayk was killed by another
conscript by Gyumri.

Given that no official information has been forthcoming from the
defense ministry such hearsay is bound to spread even further.

Photo: Hetq Online

DEAD SOLDIER’S MOTHER HASN’T BEEN TOLD THE TRUTH
Grisha Balasanyan

14:46, September 7, 2011

It turns out that Amberd Mayor Manvel Babayan only told the parents
and family members of Hayk Lazarian, the 19 year-old soldier who
died earlier today at his outpost in Artsakh, that the boy had been
seriously wounded.

Only Hayk’s brother Ruben knows that the boy will not be returning
home. His mother still clings to the hope that her son will recover and
be united with them in Amberd, their village in Armenia’s Amberd Marz.

The boy’s father, Vasil, who has been working in Russia for the past
year, only knows that his son has been severely wounded. He plans to
fly back to Armenia tonight.

Neighbours, who know the truth of the matter, told Hetq that they
just cannot bring themselves to telling the mother and sisters what
actually has happened.

No one from the Etchmiadzin army commissariat, where Hayk was
conscripted, has seen fit to make the trip to Amberd and break the
news to the soldier’s family.

One Amberd resident said it was a shame the way the army has failed
to take responsibility for the soldier’s death and is calling on local
residents to protest in front of the Government Building in Yerevan.

[Haykenc_tan_mot.jpg] Local residents as well don’t want to break
the news to Hayk’s mother Yeranouhie.

We spoke to Ruben at a neighbour’s house, so that Yeranouhie and
other family members would not overhear the truth.

Ruben kept his emotions in check, hitting the door with his clenched
fist.

The brother told us that no one had yet paid the family a visit from
either the army commissariat of the Ministry of Defense.

Colonel Hakob Azatyan, from the Etchmiadzin Commissariat, told us
that he had personally informed family members about Hayk’s death

“The relatives know that their boy is dead. I told them personally.

As to whom I told specifically, let’s not discuss such details on
the telephone,” Colonel Azatyan said.

Local residents told us that earlier today one of the relatives called
up the commissariat to verify that an accident had taken place. This
was the extent of Colonel Azatyan’s “message”.

Ruben told us that he had gone to Artsakh to see his brother on August
14 and that Hayk had told him that everything was fine.

Hayk was supposed to have been drafted in November of 2010. The first
medical examination uncovered a head scar and doctors suspected that
the boy might suffer from psychological problems.

Hayk was examined a second time and eventually drafted a month later.

Ruben told us his brother wanted to serve in the army and would go
to plead his case personally to the commissariat if he was rejected.

“Hayk decided to go to Russia after being discharged from service.

He wanted to work and save enough to buy a car, Ruben said.

Rumours are spreading in Amberd that Hayk was killed by another
conscript by Gyumri.

Given that no official information has been forthcoming from the
Defense Ministry such hearsay is bound to spread even further.

CLIENTS OF THE BANK VTB (ARMENIA) CAN FILL THEIR BANKING ACCOUNTS THROUGH THE TERMINALS OF TELCELL

ARKA
Sep 6, 2011

YEREVAN, September 7. /ARKA/. Payment company Telcell starting from
September 6 provides new opportunity to the clients of Bank VTB
(Armenia) to fill their banking and card accounts without visiting
the Bank, states the press-release of the Bank.

This services is for free and is available in 400 payment terminals
of Telcell 24 hours.

“Retail market of banking services is again on the top which brings to
the increase of overload in the branches of the bank”, said Marketing
Director of “TelCell” Sergey Husnunts.

He expressed confidence that the clients of Bank VTB (Armenia) will
appreciate the convenience and simplicity of filling the accounts
through payment terminals and the Bank will obtain fully automated
channel of accepting money, alternative expensive cashier’s points
and ATMs with the function of accepting cash money.

Head of Retail Business Development Department of Bank VTB
(Armenia) Artak Khachatryan said that the bank is always guided by
client-oriented policy and innovation methods in the development of
banking services. “Cooperation with the company Telcell is another step
in the establishment of more convenient terms and expansion of a number
of services rendered to the active clients of the Bank”, he said.

At the moment of ending the operation of filling the account through
the terminal of TelÑ~Aell, the client will receive SMS-message with
confirmation and the filled money will become available on the account
of the client maximum during one banking day.

CJSC “Bank VTB (Armenia)” became participant of international financial
group VTB in April 2004. Currently it is the second largest in Russia,
VTB Bank (CJSC) owning 100% of shares of “Bank VTB (Armenia)”. The
Bank is traditionally among the leaders of the banking system of
Armenia by a number of key indicators. The Bank now owns the largest
branch network in the country – 68 branches G.K.-0–

“TelCell” (brand Telcell) operates in the market of receiving payments
in Armneia since August 2007. Through the points of accepting
payments connected to processing centre of Telcell it is possible
to make payments for the services of national operators of mobile
communication, repay the credits, make utility payments, pay for
Internet, fill electronic money wallets, pay penalties and duties
(over 80 services).

ARABO COMMANDER PRAISES ARMENIAN ARMY’S FIGHTING CAPACITY

PanARMENIAN.Net
September 7, 2011 – 14:10 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Arabo detachment commander Manvel Yeghiazaryan
commented on clear advantages of Armenian army’s fighting capacity
over that of the Azerbaijani army.

As Yeghiazaryan told a news conference in Yerevan, “back in Soviet
army, Armenians, despite their low number, held Azeris under control.”

“Armenian men are born soldiers,” the commander said, charactering
the army as the main achievement of Armenian nation.

Yeghiazaryan condemned the incidents in Armenian army, citing deaths
of 1500 soldiers in peaceful time over the past 15 years. “Armenian
nation must show harsh response, raising its voice against recent
incidents in the army,” he stressed.

ARMENIAN COMPANY TO PARTICIPATE IN SHAKESPEARE FEST IN LONDON

PanARMENIAN.Net
September 7, 2011 – 14:56 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – More than a million tickets go on sale next month
for an explosion of Shakespeare productions that will coincide with
the London Olympics.

They will involve thousands of actors, hundreds of professional and
amateur theatre companies, and scores of languages, all part of the
biggest Shakespeare festival ever organized, The Guardian reported.

Details were announced as new research commissioned by the Royal
Shakespeare Company and the British Council revealed that the bard
is the world’s most studied author, pored over by half the world’s
schoolchildren, at least 64 million each year. His work is a compulsory
secondary school subject in countries including Azerbaijan, China,
Oman, the Philippines and Vietnam.

The Globe, the recreation on Bankside in London of Shakespeare’s own
theatre, is mounting all 37 of his plays, presented by guest companies
in 37 languages, including Arabic, Yoruba and Armenian.

Globe artistic director Dominic Dromgoole is particularly proud of
including a company from “the newest country in the world, South Sudan,
which has yet to celebrate its first birthday”. It will perform in
Juba Arabic. An Iraqi company is bringing a Romeo and Juliet, where
the warring families are Sunni and Shia, and a company from Tunisia
is staging a version of Macbeth looking at power and repression among
Arab leaders.

VAYK DOCTOR ACCUSED OF NEGLIGENCE CONTINUES TO WORK, HAS ‘NO PROBLEM’S WITH RESIDENTS

epress.am
09.07.2011 11:28

Head of the maternity ward in the southern Armenian town of Vayk,
accoucheur and gynecologist Dr. Metaxya Hovhannisyan continues to
work despite allegations of negligence.

Relatives of a baby who recently died after being in a coma for over
2 weeks following delivery administered by Dr. Hovhannisyan insist
that it was due to Dr. Hovhannisyan’s carelessness and negligence
that their child died.

They say 20-year-old, first-time mom Armine Torosyan contractions
on Aug. 14 so they took her to the Vayk hospital, only to be told
to delay the birth as Hovhannisyan, the head of the maternity ward,
was tending to household errands (beating wool for blankets and the
like) and would call on the family in the evening.

As a result, the child was born late and there were complications
during childbirth.

Speaking to local daily Haykakan Jamanak (“Armenian Times”), Dr.

Hovhannisyan said she will continue to work since she has not yet
received the results of the health ministry committee’s investigation
and forensic examination. She adds that she feels no mistrust from
local residents after the incident.

“I work as per usual. Today, I saw many patients, delivered many
babies. There is no problem from the population,” she said.

Recall, Vayots Dzor marz (province) police were gathering material
for an investigation to look into the claims of negligence against Dr.

Hovhannisyan.

Earlier, Tsovinar Khachatryan, sister of Torosyan’s mother-in-law,
had told Epress.am that the family is not preparing to file a lawsuit
at this time because “we are residents of one village; we’re not
enemies after all, but Metaxya shouldn’t work.”

However, “if push comes to shove, we will definitely take her to
court,” she added.

Head of the RA Ministry of Healthcare’s public relations department
Shushan Hunanyan told Epress.am that a working group has been created,
as instructed by the minister.

DES TOURISTES TURCS SE PLAIGNENT DE AGENTS DE SECURITE ISRAELIENS
[email protected]

armenews.com
mercredi 7 septembre 2011
TURQUIE

Plusieurs touristes turcs ont affirme avoir ete maltraites a l’aeroport
de Tel Aviv, quelques jours après une nouvelle poussee de fièvre
diplomatique entre la Turquie et Israël, a ecrit lundi l’agence de
presse Anatolie.

Certains de ces touristes ont explique qu’ils avaient ete separes de
voyageurs ayant d’autres nationalites, au moment où ils embarquaient
pour la Turquie dimanche, et qu’ils ont ete isoles pour de longues
fouilles corporelles, a precise l’agence.

“Ils ont immediatement laisse passer un groupe de Bucarest… mais
nous, ils nous ont conduits aux vestiaires. Nous avons enleve nos
habits et nos chaussures. Ils nous ont fouilles avec leurs mains et
avec un detecteur”, a declare Arif Cinar a Anatolie, en arrivant
a l’aeroport Ataturk d’Istanbul. “Ils nous ont fouilles au corps
plusieurs fois, pour detecter d’eventuels explosifs”, a-t-il dit.

Un autre passager, Mustafa Teke, a declare qu’on la force a retirer
ses habits.

“Je leur ai dit que j’etais musulman et que je n’enlèverais pas mon
pantalon. Ils m’ont dit que dans ces conditions je ne pourrais pas
partir… Ils m’ont oblige a enlever mon pantalon”, a-t-il declare.

Le guide de ces touristes, Eyup Ensar Ugur, a explique que le vol
avait ete retarde a cause de ces fouilles. “Ils ont examine trois
fois un de mes mouchoirs un papier”, a-t-il dit.

La Turquie a expulse la semaine dernière l’ambassadeur israelien et
a suspendu tous les accords militaires avec Israël, ce pays refusant
de presenter ses excuses pour un raid sur un navire humanitaire turc
se dirigeant vers Gaza, en 2010, au cours duquel neuf Turcs avaient
ete tues.

Le ministère israelien des affaires etrangères s’est pour sa part
plaint de l’attitude d’officiels turcs, vis-a-vis de touristes
israeliens.

Une quarantaine de touristes israeliens ont ete retenus et interroges
en debarquant lundi a l’aeroport international d’Istanbul, a indique
le ministère.

“Les passagers arrives lundi matin par un vol de la compagnie Turkish
Airlines ont ete conduits dans des salles separees pour etre interroges
un par un, après que leurs passeports aient ete confisques”, a indique
a l’AFP une porte-parole du ministère, Ilana Stein.

“Après une heure et demie, ils ont pu recuperer leurs passeports et
ont ete autorises a partir”, a-t-elle dit, ajoutant que “c’est la
première fois qu’un tel incident nous est rapporte”.

Interroges par des radios, certains passagers se sont plaints d’avoir
ete separes des autres voyageurs et d’avoir eu a subir des fouilles
humiliantes.

DES DIPLOMATES TURCS CONVOQUES PAR LA POLICE DANOISE
[email protected]

armenews.com
mercredi 7 septembre 2011
INTERNATIONAL

Les services de renseignement danois ont convoque des responsables
de l’ambassade de Turquie après avoir decouvert qu’un diplomate turc
avait assiste en possession d’un revolver au procès d’une chaîne
de television kurde a Copenhague, a rapporte samedi le quotidien
Politiken.

La chaîne ROJ-TV est en procès depuis la mi-août pour son soutien
presume au Parti des travailleurs du Kurdistan (PKK) qui figure sur
la liste des organisations considerees comme terroristes par l’Union
europeenne (UE), les Etats-Unis et la Turquie.

Selon Politiken, un Kurde danois qui assistait jeudi a une audience
a decouvert que le diplomate etait arme et en a averti la defense,
qui a a son tour informe le juge et la police.

“Ceci est totalement inacceptable. Il n’existe pas de loi speciale pour
les diplomates. Le port d’arme est interdit et sans aucun doute dans
un tribunal”, a dit le president de l’association des juges danois,
Mikael Sjoeberg, au journal.

Les services de renseignement (PET), responsables pour les affaires
concernant des diplomates, ont declare a Politiken que des responsables
de l’ambassade de Turquie a Copenhague avaient ete convoques a la
suite de l’incident.

“Ils ont ete avertis que le fait de porter une arme dans un tribunal
danois ne doit pas se reproduire”, a dit le PET cite.

“Nous avons pris l’initiative de reexaminer toutes les autorisations
de port d’arme du personnel de l’ambassade afin d’en clarifier les
conditions de delivrance”, ont ajoute les services de renseignement.

Roj TV, basee a Copenhague, est accusee de soutenir le “terrorisme”
auprès de la population kurde dans les 68 pays où elle emet. Après cinq
annees d’enquete, le Parquet danois a demande en 2010 son interdiction.

Le conflit kurde en Turquie a fait plus de 45.000 morts depuis le
debut de l’insurrection du PKK, en 1984, selon l’armee.

L’ACTRICE ARMENO-AMERICAINE ANGELA SARAFYAN DANS “MAXIM”
Krikor Amirzayan, [email protected]

armenews.com
mercredi 7 septembre 2011
MEDIAS

L’actrice armeno-americaine Angela Sarafyan pose quelque peu denudee
dans le mensuel ” Maxim ” du mois de septembre. Dans son interview,
Angela Sarafyan ne cache pas qu’elle est très timide ” surtout avec
les garcons ” qu’elle n’embrasse jamais lors d’un premier rendez-vous.

Angela Sarafyan est nee le 10 juin 1983 en Armenie. Sa famille s’est
installee a Los Angeles lorsqu’elle avait 4 ans. Elle a joue dans
quelques films americains a succès.

‘GEORGIAN AIRSPACE CLOSED FOR RUSSIA’S TRANSPORTATION OF MILITARY CARGO’

news.az
Sept 6 2011
Azerbaijan

Georgian MFA denies information about opening of airspace for Russian
Federation.

The Foreign Ministry informs that the Georgian airspace is closed
for the Russian Federation’s transportation of the military cargo
to Armenia.

“This information is not correct, “- Deputy foreign Minister
Nino Kalandadze said to GHN responding the resent publication of
the WikiLeaks concerning the next one deciphering materials of
the classified letters to USA State Office. At this time WikiLeaks
informed John Baas, USA Ambassador to Georgia said “Tbilisi continues
the opening of the airspace for Russian military cargos transportation
to Armenia.”

Kalandadze said that Russian Federation several times applied to
Georgian authorities asking for the opening of airspace, but the
Georgian side did not satisfied this demand.

“The information form WikiLeaks should be treated cautiously. As we do
not know are they reliable or not. Nevertheless the fact is not truth.

Russia several times applied to us with suggestion to open the airspace
but we did not agree. Last time we got such type of suggestion form
Russian Federation at the end of 2008, “- Kalandadze said.

For information, according to the Wikileaks information John Baas,
USA Ambassador wrote in 17 February 2010 to USA State Department about
“Russia’s attempt to continue the military cargo’s transportation to
Armenia”. Georgian experts say that this information is confidential,
as the Georgian party was declaring that the Georgian airspace for
Russia’s military cargo’s transportation to Armenia was closed.