Author: Kalantarian Kevo

PRIOR TO COMMITTING CRIME, NAIRI HUNANIAN WAS SUBJECTED TO NEURO-LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING, POLITICAL TECHNOLOGIST NAREK MALIAN SAYS

Noyan Tapan
Oct 27, 2008

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 27, NOYAN TAPAN. The accusations, according to which
the first Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosian and his team allegedly
influenced people’s consciousness by means of neuro-linguistic
programming (NLP) during rallies, are not true, political technologist
Narek Malian said at the October 27 press conference. In his words,
NLP and other psychological methods of this kind are used with respect
to individuals and are not applicable at mass events.

To recap, psychologist Karine Nalchajian made the above mentioned
accusations after the March 1 events. She had also been invited to the
press conference but was not present because of being out of the city.

Speaking about the Oct. 27, 1999 assassination, N. Malian said: "In
my opinion, Nairi Hunanian was subjected to NLP before breaking into
the National Assembly. This technology makes it easier to persuade
a person to kill those with whom he is not personally acquainted".

In the opinion of N. Malian, in Armenia all political figures, those
representing both the authorities and opposition, have no ideological
direction: they look for today’s popular political current and
enter it.

Another peculiarity of Armenian political reality is that advertising
posters and slogans of candidates running in various elections are
like each other and the voter has difficulty remembering them.

Noroeste, Mexico

CONCIERTO

Sonidos de la selva

La OSSLA y el Octeto Tarab introducen al público mazatleco a los
enigmáticos sonidos que Villa-Lobos construyó inspirado en la Amazonia
Héctor Guardado

Sonidos de la selva

26-10-2008

MAZATLÁN._ La selva amazónica tiene su música propia, el enigma que
crean los silencios interrumpidos por las hojas que mueve el viento,
el murmullo del aleteo de las aves, los ruidos que emiten los insectos
y animales, construyen una sinfonía que el oído del compositor
brasileño Heitor Villa-Lobos captó y trasladó a una partitura que fue
interpretada por la Orquesta Sinfónica Sinaloa de las Artes y el
Octeto Tarab en el Teatro Ángela Peralta.
La primera pieza que se interpretó de este famoso autor carioca fue
Bachiana número 5, para octeto de cellos y soprano.
La pieza inicia con un sonido que recuerda las gotas de agua que caen,
de hoja en hoja hasta la tierra. Esa sensación lo logran los cellos
con fuertes pellizcos (pisicato) que aplican los músicos a las cuerdas
y que introducen al público en una atmósfera seductora.
La voz de la soprano Eugenia Garza se convirtió en otro instrumento
que emitió sonidos que se unieron a los de los cellos que conforman el
Octeto Tarab. De la boca de Garza no salió ni una sola palabra, sólo
vocalizaciones, que son una contestación melódica al estímulo sonoro
que las cuerdas proponen.
El resultado fue una pieza que acarició los oídos y que creó la
sensación de estar subiendo suavemente por una espiral de sonidos que
se elevó lentamente, alcanzando la paz que la cúspide prometió.
La Bachiana número 5, de Villa-Lobos, es un ejercicio difícil para la
cantante, por las notas altas que debe alcanzar y la gran capacidad
pulmonar que debe desarrollar para soportar, sin respirar, los largos
compases.
También se interpretaron los cuatro movimientos de la Bachiana número
2 y el programa se cerró con el famoso Choro número 10 para coro y
orquesta, en el que los sonidos transportaron a los oyentes a la selva
amazónica.
El Coro del Taller de Ópera de Sinaloa fue el encargado de darle vida
a los sonidos de la selva y la batuta del director egipcio Raffi
Armenian fue la encargada de guiar a cantantes y músicos por las
atmósferas de la música de Villa-Lobos.
La OSSLA abordó esa noche una obra que llamó la atención del público,
Silueta como sirena, del jalisciense Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon.
En dicha obra, el instrumento solista fue una guitarra y la melodía se
estructuró con sonidos contemporáneos, disonancias y melodías
segmentadas que crean pequeñas atmósferas. El guitarrista Alfredo
Sánchez intervino con su voz de trovador, al decir un poema
surrealista.

EL CONCIERTO
Tres piezas del brasileño Heitor Villa-Lobos y una del jalisciense
Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon se interpretaron en el concierto que ofrecieron
la OSSLA y el Octeto Tarab.
PARTICIPANTES
En el concierto participaron los músicos de la Orquesta Sinfónica
Sinaloa de las Artes, el Octeto de Cellos Tarab, la soprano Eugenia
Garza y el Coro del Taller de Ópera de Sinaloa

The Daily Herald-Tribune (Grande Prairie, Alberta)
October 24, 2008 Friday
FINAL EDITION

Canadian Karsh’s photos in Boston museum

BOSTON

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is marking the 100th birthday of
legendary Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh with an exhibition of
some of his iconic portraits.

”Karsh 100: A Biography in Images” includes more than 100 works,
including famous photographs of celebrated personalities such as
Jackie Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Fidel Castro, Albert Einstein,
Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Helen Keller, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia
Loren, Angela Lansbury and Boris Karloff.

The exhibit also highlights Karsh’s early work when he was developing
his style as well as photographs made in the 1950s, such as urban
images taken on assignment for Maclean’s magazine and photos
commissioned by Ford of Canada and Atlas Steel. His large-format
camera is also on display.

Images were lent to the exhibition by the Karsh Collection at the
National Portrait Gallery of Canada.

Karsh was born in Armenia in 1908 and died in 2002. The exhibit
continues until Jan. 19.

SOCIAL MECHANISM OF STATE BUDGET’S CONTROL IS ABSENT IN ARMENIA, ECONOMIST ANDRANIK TEVANIAN SAYS

Noyan Tapan
Oct 22, 2008

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 22, NOYAN TAPAN. There is no social mechanism for
control of state budgetary expenditures in Armenia, the director of
Politeconom research institute, economist Andranik Tevanian said
at the October 22 press conference. In his words, "we do not know
what expenditures the army makes and how much the police spend on
uniforms." In his opinion, the greater the budget, the worse the
situation is, because more money is collected from economic entities
and then spent without any control – under the cover of increasing
pensions by 5 thousand drams.

The Central Bank of Armenia constantly raises the refinancing rate,
which, according to A. Tevanian, means a policy of expensive money. "On
the one hand the state conducts a strict fiscal policy, on the other
hand it tightens the monetary policy," he said.

FREEZING REMAINS THE ONLY OPTION
Karen Nahapetyan

Hayots Ashkhar Daily
25 Oct 2008
Armenia

As we know, the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group are planning
to visit the region next week. "Now the Co-Chairs intend to resume
their work in a more active manner," representative of France Bernard
Fassier announced.

And we hear statements on the speedy settlement of the Karabakh
conflict every day.

In our opinion, the elaboration of any option for mutual concessions
is becoming impossible, considering the fact that the societies
and political forces of both Armenia and Azerbaijan are unprepared
for finding ways towards the settlement of the Karabakh conflict,
implementing their tasks and perceiving and brining to life the
solutions proposed by the Co-Chairs.

That’s why, all the attempts of integrating the region through a speedy
settlement of the conflict are, from the outset, doomed to failure.

Integration remains possible only as far as the freezing of the
conflict and the maintenance of status quo are concerned.

Today, the speedy solution is unfeasible due to the existence of the
mutually exclusive signals and the impossibility of any consensus over
any concrete option both inside Armenia and on the Armenian-Azerbaijani
front.

At the same time, the current geo-political developments make the
prospect of resuming a new Armenian-Azerbaijani war impossible. That
war may break out only in case some of the mediators try to strengthen
their country’s positions in the region, using the "settlement"
as a pretext.

In such situation, the bandage upon the unhealed wound turns out to
be the only remedy, because it will definitely come off and cause a
new bleeding both in case of the settlement of the conflict and the
resumption of a new war.

The issues of returning some territories in exchange for opening the
roads and clarifying the NKR status may be solved through mutual
concessions only in case the region is already integrated to some
bigger and more stable system which will be able to impose the rules
of its game upon the parties.

In conditions of the absence of such system, the universal settlement
of the conflict becomes impossible. Hence, the freezing of the conflict
is the only way that creates stable and safe conditions for carrying
out integration processes.

In Armenia, there is almost no serious anti-thesis to the idea of
freezing the conflict, because the longer the realities achieved as
a result of the war are maintained, the more they will be taken into
consideration by everybody.

And in Azerbaijan, this idea is one of the serious guarantees for
maintaining the positions of the ruling political leadership. As to
the political forces making appeals for war, they are more interested
in speculating the issue in the fight for power rather than solving
the problem in favor of Azerbaijan.

The forces competing with one another in the region should also
realize that the freezing is either the least of the two evils or the
only real way towards the maintenance of stability. Although all the
mediators act in support of the speedy settlement of the problem,
they are also required to realize that there is only one possible
option in the domain of one’s wishes and the real chances. That is,
the option of the freezing.

It is also necessary to take into consideration the fact that the
Karabakh issue is no longer in the domain of the Armenian-Azerbaijani
bilateral relations; it has become the main cardinal lever for taking
control over the region. If there were no such struggle, and the
Minsk Group introduced a united and final option to the parties and
demanded that they immediately sign it, then neither the Armenian
nor the Azeri authorities would be able to do anything.

The absence of a united coercion testifies to the fact that the
problem is unsettled on the plane of the Russia-US rather than the
Armenia-Azerbaijan relations.

The freezing of the conflict against the political background is
the only option to be followed by all the parties whose mentality
is based on realistic state-national principles vs. some abstract
patriotic slogans or defeatist cosmopolitanism.

RUSSIA TO ACTIVATE OPPOSING AGAINST USA

Panorama.am
19:55 23/10/2008

The visit of the President of Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev
to Armenia was on time and necessary, said Professor Vladimir
Zakharov of Moscow International Relations State University during
TV Bridge. According to him it is high time for Russia to take the
initiative to regulate the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. By that Russia
tries to oppose the West influence.

According to V. Zakharov in common cases the initiative of
United States to solve a problem results in what happened in South
Ossetia. "That’s why Russia takes the initiative and I can evaluate
it positively. As I know in November the Presidents of three countries
will have a meeting," he said.

MEDVEDEV COMMEMORATES VICTIMS OF ARMENIANS’ GENOCIDE

Interfax News Agency
Oct 21 2008
Russia

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited the memorial to the
victims of the genocide of Armenians located in the Yerevan park
Thitsernakaberd on Tuesday morning.

Medvedev laid down a wreath of red roses to the memorial and visited
the History Museum, where photos, documents, and other evidence of
the tragedy are displayed.

Among the exhibits displayed in the museum is the text of the State
Duma statement issued in 1995, which "condemns the organizers of the
genocide of Armenians" expressing sympathy with the people of Armenia.

Medvedev wrote the following words in the museum’s Book of Honored
Guests: "The museum of the Armenians’ genocide is evidence of
a horrible tragedy of the 20th century and at the same time is
a reminder of the fact that life is the main value that is to be
protected by civilized peoples."

WAS EXTENSION IN VAIN?

A1+
[05:36 pm] 22 October, 2008

"It is due to mention that the parliamentary commission couldn’t
and will not be able to depict the real scene and series of questions
arousing concern among people. We don’t think that the extension of the
commission’s activity will enable them to get tangible elucidation. The
questions the society was interested in still remain unaddressed,"
Leader of the Heritage (Zharangutiun) Party Armen Martirosyan said with
regard to the NA ad hoc Commission looking into the March 1-2 events.

Remind that today the National Assembly voted for the proposal of
Commission Chair Samvel Nikoyan to prolong the term of the ad hoc
commission for another four months. The proposal was passed with 84
votes for, 5 against and 1 abstention.

WHAT IS THE ERGENEKON OPERATION?

Hurriet
Monday, October 20, 2008 14:17
Turkey

The Ergenekon operation started with the investigation of 27 hand
grenades found in a house in Istanbul last year.

Then the investigation widened and transformed into an operation to
crackdown on the "Ergenekon Terror Organization", which allegedly
aimed at paving the way for a military coup against the government.

More than 100 people were taken into custody in the seven waves of
the operation, while 86 of them were arrested, including journalists
and retired commanders.

The Ergenekon organization was claimed to be the mastermind behind
the assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, and a
plot to kill Nobel prize-winner, Turkish author, Orhan Pamuk.

However the Ergenekon operation intensified after the closure
case was filed against the ruling Justice and Development Party
(AKP). The operation was not limited to retired army members or
ultra-nationalists, but widened to prominent opponents of the AKP.

Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has previously said the closure case
was a response to the government’s determination in the Ergenekon
operation. However some observers say the wider Ergenekon operation
could be seen as an instrument to suppress the opponents of the
government.

MetroWest Daily News, MA

Memorial honors victims, survivors of Armenian Genocide

By Kathy Uek/Daily News staff

MetroWest Daily News
Posted Oct 19, 2008 @ 10:34 PM

FRAMINGHAM ‘ More than 200 members of the Armenian Church of the Holy
Translators stood against whipping winds yesterday during the
dedication of its memorial park in front of the Franklin Street place
of worship.

The park is a memorial to the victims of the genocide, which occurred
roughly from 1915 to 1923, and a tribute to the survivors, many of
whom came to the Boston area in the early 20th century, said Stepan
Piligian, chairman of the parish council.

Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, of the diocese of the Armenian Church of
America (Eastern) in New York City, blessed the park.

"Half of the Armenian population of 3 million perished in the
genocide, Barsamian said. "Today, there are 8 million Armenians in the
world, even in Singapore. We are here today because of those who
sacrificed their lives.

"The (Ottoman) Turks killed them because they were Christians," he
added. "The Ottoman Empire was getting weaker. They feared the
Armenians, who had asked for their rights back. Women and children
were separated from husbands and partners. The men were taken to the
Syrian desert and killed. The women were kidnapped and tortured. Even
children were raped."

Remembering them is a reminder that life goes on, said Levon Hanzatian
of Natick, who was born in Turkey and came to America in 1968. "They
are part of us."

The parents of Joe Kasparian of Milford survived the genocide. "My
mother, Virginia, was a young girl and so traumatized she never wanted
to talk about it," Kasparian said. "My father, John, didn’t talk about
it until later. He was fortunate. His next-door neighbor, who was a
Turk, told him about the attack and they got out. As they ran away,
they saw dismembered bodies. After the genocide, my mother’s family
went to Argentina and my father’s family went to France before coming
to America," he said. "It was sad for them to go through it."

His father died this year at 101.

A stone cross or khatchker, made from volcanic stone native to Armenia
and used on graves and monasteries, stands at the heart of the park.

Surrounding the elaborately cut cross, are brick walkways.

"Many of the bricks are engraved in memory of family members and for
special occasions, such as baptisms and weddings," Piligian said.

The bishop dedicated the park on the fifth anniversary of the the
church and the blessing of the Holy Muron (holy oil) made every seven
years.

"The oil is used for anointing in baptisms, confirmations, and for
those called to spiritual leadership," said the Rev. Father Krikor
A. Sabounjian, pastor of the church.

After the archbishop blessed the park, he did the same for the food
served in the lower church, where members enjoyed trays of meats,
fruits and vegetables and native treats, including Syrian bread, humus
and an unsweetened cheese pastry called borek.