Author: Kalantarian Kevo

AZERI REPORT: IN U.S. AZERBAIJANIS TRICKED THE LOCALS IN HEYDAR ALIYEV’S ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

17:53 06/05/2013 ” SOCIETY

On May 5, many Americans unknowingly celebrated the 90th birthday of a
corrupt foreign communist dictator by attending the “Flower Day” event
hosted in the National Mall in Washington DC by a foreign lobbying
group Azerbaijani-American Alliance (AAA), the Azeri Report says.

According to the article the event was described as a mere “Celebration
of Azerbaijani Culture and Friendship”. AAA clearly and deliberately
misrepresented the facts and hid the real reasons behind the “Flower
Day” festivities from residents and visitors of the US capital,
trying to trick them into celebrating the late Azerbaijani dictator’s
birthday.

It says that the “Flower Day” is established in Azerbaijan as an
official May 10 birthday commemoration for the founder of corrupt
and repressive Aliyev dictatorship, the former communist boss and
KGB general, Heydar Aliyev, who is also the father of the current
president Ilham Aliyev.

But AAA’s announcement of Flower Day celebration in DC mentions
nothing about Heydar Aliyev, to whom the event is dedicated in
Azerbaijan. Instead, it provides false and misleading information,
by stating that “The Azerbaijani holiday of Flower Day occurs in early
May and has been recognized for more than half a century. Flower Day
celebrates the arrival of spring and the spirit of hope and renewal
that blooming flowers represent.”

“The real “arrival of spring and the spirit of hope and renewal” have
been celebrated for centuries in Azerbaijan during the Novruz holidays
in March – at the same time as in many other countries of the region.

The information about Novruz holiday in Azerbaijan can be found easily
on internet, anywhere from Azerbaijani President’s official websites
to AAA’s own Novruz webpage,” the Azeri Report says.

As for the Flower Day, it is marked for Heydar Aliyev’s May 10 birthday
commemoration that started only in the year 2000, not “more than half
a century” ago as AAA states. And it really took off only after his
death in 2003, when his son Ilham Aliyev took over the presidency
in fraudulent elections marred with violent crackdown on peaceful
protests, the article reads.

“Each year, on May 10th, millions of dollars of state funds is spent
on bringing exotic flowers to Baku and organizing lavish displays to
mark the birthday of a long dead founder of Aliyev regime. This is
just one of many expressions of personality cult around the figure
of Heydar Aliyev. The Azerbaijani Academy of Sciences has a whole
department dedicated to “Aliyev Science”. His giant portraits and
statues are present all over country; the country’s largest airport
bears his name, and so do thousands of streets, parks and buildings,”
the article reads.

It is noted that Azerbaijani officials and opportunity seekers at all
levels try to outdo each other in issuing praises and hosting events
in honor of the “Dear Leader” Heydar Aliyev. “This is largely aimed to
please his son, the current head of the corrupt and repressive regime,
Ilham Aliyev. The Azerbaijani government also exerts considerable
efforts and spends large sums to advance this personality cult outside
the country’s borders,” it says.

According to the author of the article, it is not surprising that
a lobbying group like Azerbaijani-American Alliance (AAA) would
promote corrupt Aliyev regime’s personality cult in the US. After all,
AAA is run by Anar Mammadov, the son of the Azerbaijani minister of
transportation Ziya Mammadov, whose name is mentioned as one of the
top corrupt Azeri officials anywhere from Wikileaks diplomatic cables
to international Organized Crime and Corruption reports. AAA funding,
according to FARA records, comes from Ziya Mammadov’s shadowy business
empire “ZQAN Holding”.

“Apparently that money enables them to buy some fun time with US
officials, including the House Speaker John Boehner, among many, and
a favorable PR articles in prestigious US magazines,” the article says.

According to the article apparently, the Aliyev regime suffered major
embarrassments from recent setbacks to its attempts to spread the
Heydar Aliyev personality cult abroad. “It seems that once the truth
about who Heydar Aliyev really was emerges, people in foreign countries
are not so eager to celebrate former KGB general’s birthday and host
his statues, even when paid millions of dollars by the Azerbaijani
government to do so. Perhaps some within the regime in Baku and its
representatives abroad recognize this as well, and they now try to
hide the “shame” of their personality cult “addiction” by disusing it
as innocent May “Flower Day” celebrations of “the arrival of spring”.

TURKEY HOPES NUCLEAR PARTNER FRANCE WILL REVIEW ‘GENOCIDE’ STANCE

Today’s Zaman, Turkey
May 6 2013

Ankara is expecting to see Paris weigh its stance on Armenian genocide
claims rather more carefully amid improving trade ties, Turkish Energy
Minister Taner Yýldýz told reporters Monday in Ankara.

France’s GDF Suez will partner with Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Ltd and Itochu Corporation to build Turkey’s second nuclear power
plant at an estimated cost of $22 billion under an agreement signed
last week. The consortium will use French nuclear group Areva’s
Atmea reactors.

Yýldýz’s remarks on Monday come on the heels of speculation in French
and Turkish media that the nuclear deal will benefit the political
relations between Paris and Ankara, which have been strained by the
former’s recognition of killings of Armenians at the hands of Ottoman
Turks during World War I as genocide. Ankara last year rejected
requests by two French firms to be involved in Turkish nuclear power
projects amid Turkish anger at a French bill making it illegal to
deny that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks a century
ago was genocide.

Observers argued the French stance on the issue would continue to test
Turkey’s patience as the 100th anniversary of 1915 events approaches.

It is known that the Armenian diaspora is pushing for a worldwide
initiative in 2015.

Recalling that the French government is aware of the need to break the
ice in ties with Turkey, Yýldýz said he expected the latest energy
deal to serve this end. “We unfortunately failed to bring about a
rapprochement during the [former President Nicolas] Sarkozy term.

…last week’s deal is a positive step to see this happen,” Yýldýz
remarked. The minister said although it is too early to expect
concrete steps from France in this regard, he believed energy matters
in political relations today more than ever before.

Apart from the genocide claims, Turkey also hopes to see France soften
its stance on the Ankara’s bid to join the EU. Yýldýz had earlier
said Turkey would expect gestures from Paris on its EU bid. Prior
to the nuclear deal, the French government agreed in February to the
opening of talks on one of the five negotiating chapters that it has
been blocking since former President Sarkozy’s term in office.

Turkey to decide IPOs for nuke plant by October

Ankara is weighing a possible move to make public certain shares
in a company that is going to be established as part of a project
to build Turkey’s second nuclear power plant, Minister Yýldýz said
Monday in Ankara.

In line with the deal signed between Turkey and Japan, the parties
will establish a separate company to undertake the construction and
operation of the nuclear plant in Sinop province. A 51 percent share
in this company will belong to Japan, with the rest in Turkey’s hands.

Yýldýz said the government mulled two alternative plans: “One is we
give the entire 49 percent to the Electricity Generation Company
[EUAÞ], and the second plan is to keep EUAÞ’s share at around 30
percent and either give the rest to local private firms or trade them
on the stock exchange.” Yýldýz said his ministry consulted with the
Treasury for a possible IPO and will reach a final decision after
deliberations with the participation of the Prime Minister’s Office.

An Energy Ministry official told Today’s Zaman on Monday that the
government would make clear the initial public offering (IPO) issue
in the planned nuclear company by October. “We will ink the final
contracts on the nuclear plant in October, and this is when the
government should decide on the IPO,” he said.

In an earlier deal, Russia’s Rosatom will start construction of
Turkey’s first nuclear power station in mid-2015 in Mersin’s Akkuyu
district.

Turkey guarantees the procurement of electric power from the two
nuclear plants during the 20 years following their completion. Ankara
will pay $12.35 per kilowatt hour (kWh) to Russia and $11.8 to Japan.

PAP STARTED AND FINISHED IN YEREVAN

Stepan Safaryan, Secretary General of the Heritage Party, says during
the election the PAP’s behavior was double-faced. It behaved one way
in the polling stations while outside the polling stations it played
with the rules of the government – bought votes etc.

This is not something new. The PAP has behaved so since its
establishment. It is something natural because the sole purpose of
the PAP is to get as much as possible from the public administration
system. The PAP is not hiding it. It is also clear that if the PAP
starts behaving otherwise, nothing will be left of this party.

It is another issue what the other political forces are doing. The
Congress, for example, does the role of the PAP’s doorkeeper. Levon
Zurabyan, for example, stated that the government is to blame if
the PAP is buying votes. In other words, the Congress is indirectly
playing the government’s game. However, it did not help the Congress
this time, like in the parliamentary election.

Whose game is the Heritage Party playing? If one participates in an
event the rules of which are defined by the RPA-PAP tandem and which
is intended to legitimize the position and ambitions of these two
group, it means that one is playing with the same rules. Especially
after the presidential election.

Hence, the real meaning of the PAP’s slogan “Let’s Start from
Yerevan” is a message to the government about returning to power and
an assurance that the PAP will not accept other rules. Therefore,
the Congress and the ARF were not needed this time, they had played
their role before the parliamentary election.

What will those who were trying to find another meaning in “Let’s
Start from Yerevan” willy-nilly misleading the society? What will
Vartan Oskanian do who said that the PAP will become opposition in
September? The PAP will not be opposition because a party which buys
votes cannot be opposition. Opposition is a party which does not
accept the rules of the game. How many such people are there in the
PAP and generally in the political system of Armenia?

Haik Aramyan 14:31 06/05/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:

PRESS RELEASE
Armenian Apostolic Church of Crescenta Valley-Education Committee
6252 Honolulu Ave.
La Crescenta, CA. 91214
Tel: 818-244-9645
E-mail: [email protected]

Dr. Haroutune Armenian will be the guest speaker on the subject of
“Living with the Mountains: From Ararat to Mount Lukens” at the
Armenian Apostolic Church of Crescenta Valley, located at Western
Prelacy’s “Dikran and Zarouhi Der Ghazarian” Hall, at 6252 Honolulu
Ave., La Crescenta, California on Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 1pm,
following the Divine liturgy, which starts at 11am.

We are lucky to live in an area surrounded by mountains. However, do
we really benefit from this blessed environment? Using slides and a
narrative, Dr. Armenian’s interesting and almost daily experiences of
hiking in these mountains with friends and family will be
presented. These experiences have carried them from the mountain peaks
of Armenia, including Mount Ararat, to Mount Kilimanjaro and the major
peaks of Southern California. During the presentation the principles
of this healthy lifestyle will be presented.

Dr. Haroutune Armenian is the Associate Dean of Academic Programs and
the Professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public
Health. He is also a Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health, where he received his MPH and Dr.P.H. degrees
(1972-4) following his M.D. from the American University of Beirut in
1968. Dr. Armenian’s academic and development leadership has included
program development at the Ministry of Health in Bahrain, Dean of the
Faculty of Health Sciences at the American University of Beirut,
Director of the MPH Program at the Johns Hopkins University, and Dean
of the School of Public Health at the American University of Armenia
(AUA).

As President of the AUA for fourteen years, he was at the forefront of
the establishment of novel educational and development programs in
Armenia and the Middle East. Recent awards include the Movses
Khorenatsi Presidential Medal of Service in 2001 from the Republic of
Armenia and Presidential Medal of the Order of Cedars from the
Republic of Lebanon. Dr. Armenian has been on the central executive
council of the Armenian Church in Lebanon as well as on the executive
of the Hamazkaine Cultural Association and the Karageuzian
Foundation. He has published over 100 scientific papers and peer
reviewed chapters as well as 20 books. In Armenia, he continues to
lead the Turpanjian Rural Development Program with over 250 businesses
established in the villages and 600 people trained in
entrepreneurship. Dr. Armenian and his wife Sona are avid
mountaineers: they climbed Mount Ararat in an AUA expedition in 2006
and in June – July 2012, they climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
with their son Saro.

This event, which is organized by Crescenta Valley Church Education
Committee, is free and open to the public.

MOVIE DEDICATED TO ARMENIANS FROM KESSAB TO BE PREMIERED IN YEREVAN

14:14, 7 May, 2013

YEREVAN, MAY 7, ARMENRPESS. “Kessab” documentary movie by Nane
Bagratuni will be premiered in “Narekatsi” Art Union in Yerevan on
May 7. In a conversation with “Armenpress” filmmaker Nane Bagratuni
underscored that the movie tells about Armenian-populated Kessab
settlement near the Syrian border.

Among other things the filmmaker stated: “The movie is of a certain
importance from the cultural and ethnographical viewpoints, as the
Eastern Armenia does not have much information about Kessab. The movie
is dedicated to the story of the Armenians living in the settlement.”

According to her unlike the Hamshen-Armenians, who adhere to Muslim
religion, the Armenians from Kessab are Christians.

Also Nane Bagratuni emphasized that they will continue shooting the
movie series in future as well.

The documentary will last 30 minutes and will be introduced to the
public in the Armenian language with English subtitles.

HETQ EDITOR WRITES TO POLICE CHIEF: YOUTUBE VIDEO REMOVED MINUTES LATER

A mere ten minutes after the follow open letter, addressed to RA
Police Chief Gasparyan appeared in Hetq, thevideo in question was
removed from YouTube. One can only guess as to who ordered its removal

Dear Mr. Gasparyan,

Video footage of the incident in which Heritage Party member Armen
Martirosyan was taken into custody by police has recently appeared
in the press.

It is evident that a member of the so-called police press unit recorded
the incident.

This is not the first case when on-site video recordings are later
made accessible to the press.

Thus, I would request that you clarify the following:

1. On what basis do the police provide the press with such recordings?

2. Do the media outlets pay for such video footage?

3. If so, what are the rates for the purchase of such recordings and
how can interested media outlets apply to obtain them?

4. In the cited recording, an advert for appears.

Has the advertiser entered into a contract with the police, and if so,
what are the stipulations involved?

Thanking you in advance,

Edik Baghdasaryan

Hetq Chief Editor

P.S. – Some 45 minutes after the video in question had been removed
from YouTube, Police Department Public Affairs Head Ashot Aharonyan
announced that the police hadn’t authorized the public dissemination
of the video and that an investigation had been launched to locate
its source.

Aharonyan added that the video had never appeared on the Police
Department’s official website from which the press obtains video and
photos at no charge. He said that media outlets can contact the police
for other materials in their possession.

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LAST NINE DAYS OF ELECTION CAMPAIGN SHOW MORE UNFAVORABLE ASSESSMENTS OF ARMENIA’S RULING PARTY

13:42 ~U 07.05.13

The last nine days of the election campaign for Yerevan’s Council
of Elders saw more assessments, particularly unfavorable ones of
the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), Boris Navasardyan,
Chairman of the Yerevan Press Club, told journalists on Tuesday.

He presented the interim report on media monitoring of the election
campaign, April 7 to May 3, Navasardyan said that it contains
unfavorable assessments of the Armenian National Congress (ANC)
and Rule of Law parties.

“A high percentage of unfavorable assessments of the RPA – 28 favorable
assessments and 153 unfavorable ones. This is striking balance in
our history of monitoring, which is largely due to the Kentron and
Yerkir Media TV channels,” he said.

The RPA did not have any TV interviews on its own initiative. “We can
calmly say this, which, to an extent, explains that, when you do not
speak, you are spoken of,” Navasardyan said.

Throughout the election period suggests that, in contrast to the first
phase of the monitoring, the Mission party was shown a discriminatory
approach.

Armenian News – Tert.am

TSARNI RETRACTS APOLOGY TO ARMENIANS; BREAKS PROMISE TO RECTIFY EARLIER CLAIM

12:47 07/05/2013 ” ANALYSIS

Armenians woke up on April 30 to the breaking news: “Ruslan Tsarni
Apologizes to Armenian Community,” as reported by Alin Grigorian,
editor of the Armenian Mirror-Spectator of Watertown, Mass.

Prior to this apology, Tsarni had been telling the international media
that “an Armenian convert to Islam had brainwashed” his nephews —
Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — the Boston bombers. By linking
an Armenian to such a heinous crime, Uncle Tsarni had infuriated
Armenians who suspected dubious motives behind his outlandish claim.

Armenians were naturally relieved upon learning that Tsarni had told
the Mirror-Spectator: “Armenia has a very strong culture, therefore, I
want to stress that his [Misha’s] ethnicity has nothing to do with it.

I wish I had never said it. I felt for you [Armenians] and wish I
had never done it.” He went on to apologize for linking the Armenian
community “to this evil event.”

While this apology was a good start, it was inadequate compared to
the magnitude of the damage Tsarni had caused to the good name of
Armenians worldwide. Merely apologizing to an Armenian newspaper could
not undo that harm, unless he repeated it on CNN or other TV networks.

I contacted Tsarni asking him if he would issue a similar apology on
national television. He responded affirmatively since he regretted
dragging the Armenian name into “this sad episode.” Tsarni stressed
that he did not “speak about all Armenians, just one man of Armenian
descent. I never had the intention of harming Armenians or anyone
else. I feel sorry that the name of the Armenian people was used. I
feel somehow guilty. I would like to apologize. No one likes to be
brushed with an act like this.” Tsarni asked me to report that he
felt terrible about mentioning Armenians in his TV interviews.

Given his willingness to make a new public statement, I offered to
assist him in drafting the text of an apology for a possible future
network appearance. He first welcomed the idea, but later informed me
that he would neither accept my suggestion nor issue his own statement,
claiming that his earlier remarks were accurate, since Misha was of
Armenian descent, overlooking the fact that Misha Allakhverdov, born
in Azerbaijan, was of mixed Armenian and Ukrainian parentage. Tsarni
further advised that he never meant to refer to “the entire [Armenian]
ethnicity. It was a simple technical characteristic of the person
whose name I did not know at the time. Had I known his name was Misha,
he would be Misha, not an Armenian or anyone else.” He justified the
use of the phrase ‘a new convert to Islam of Armenian descent,’ by
claiming that his intent was “to help the media, reporters, and law
enforcement agencies to locate that person.” He, therefore, decided
not to issue an apology on television, as he had promised.

Furthermore, he disputed Mirror-Spectator’s report of his apology,
by claiming that he was “misquoted.” He asserted: “I never said,
‘I wish I never said it.’ I said that I had no intention to have the
name of Armenians used in association with the bombing. I spoke about
the certain individual who I was told about and that information was
confirmed as true information.” Despite Tsarny’s belated denial,
the Mirror-Spectator stands by its story and I have no reason to
doubt the accuracy of its report!

I reminded Tsarni of his unfulfilled commitment to appear on national
TV and set the record straight on his allegation about ‘the Armenian’
Misha. He has yet to respond, as he has been busy making funeral
arrangements for his nephew, Tamerlan.

There are many unanswered questions about Tsarni. Although the internet
is replete with all sorts of allegations about his background, we
prefer to concentrate on questions of more immediate interest to the
Armenian community:

— Why did Tsarni apologize to the Armenian Mirror-Spectator and
then turn around and claim that he was misquoted? Could it be that
he had felt sorry for his earlier statements to the media, and then
backtracked after being advised by ‘unknown interests’ that he should
not apologize to the Armenians?

— Why did he make a personal commitment to me to appear on major
TV networks to apologize for maligning Armenians, and then refuse to
do so?

With these unanswered questions, one can only wonder about Uncle
Tsarni’s mysterious motives and enigmatic connections.

Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier

Source:
Panorama.am

A PERFECT ARMENIAN – A BOOK ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE -RELEASED

09:50 07.05.2013

April 24 marked the anniversary of the largest genocide you have never
heard of: the Armenian genocide. Michigan author Keri Topouzian’s
book, A Perfect Armenian, captures the suspense and fear of that
time through the story of a good man born into a life of violence,
illegal business, and tough decisions, the Broadway Report writes.

“On the 24th of April in 1915, the first phase of the Armenian
massacres began with the arrest and murder of hundreds of
intellectuals, mainly from Constantinople, the capital of Ottoman
Empire (now Istanbul in present day Turkey),” the article reads.

Topouzian’s book, A Perfect Armenian is work of historical fiction
wrapped in adventure and mystery that was inspired by his own family’s
story of survival during the Genocide and the need to raise awareness
about a tragic time in our world’s history that is unremembered.

“If it weren’t for fiction, I believe we would know very little about
our world. A list of historic facts might come and go, but when our
imaginations become involved, we learn. When we are able to place
ourselves within the story and laugh or cry with the characters,
we remember. Not many people know much about Armenia, its history or
its people. I hope that this novel will open a small and interesting
window into this culture. My culture,” said Topouzian, author of A
Perfect Armenian.

Topouzian’s paternal grandmother, Varsenig, came from the village of
Tchingiler. In 1915, Turkish soldiers forced Varsenig, her family and
the rest of their village to walk from their homes to the desert near
Damascus, Syria. They walked hundreds of miles because the soldiers
had convinced the villagers that they were traveling to safety from
World War I. In reality, they were deprived of food and water, and
left to die. 1.5 million Armenians were killed in the genocide.

Topouzian’s book, A Perfect Armenian was inspired by his family’s
story of survival and the need to raise awareness about a tragic time
in our world’s history.

Keri Topouzian, a Bloomfield Hills resident, was born in Detroit,
Michigan. He graduated from the University of Health Sciences,
College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1982. Dr. Topouzian’s mother,
a journalist, was born and raised in Detroit while his father, a
mechanical engineer, was born in Utica, New York. His grandparents
hailed from four different villages in Ancient Armenia (now part of
Turkey), each immigrating separately to the United States.

Topouzian practices holistic and alternative medicine with offices in
Grand Rapids and Detroit. He is active in the Armenian community but
spends most of his free time with his wife and four growing children.

VOTE EREVAN 2013 : LES PARTIS D’OPPOSITION DENONCENT DES VIOLATIONS

Les forces de l’opposition qui ont participe aux elections du 5 mai
pour l’election du Conseil des sages d’Erevan ont decrit le vote de
dimanche de frauduleux accusant son grand gagnant, le Parti republicain
d’Armenie (RPA), d’avoir mis en scène des violations et d’avoir commis
des fraudes pour gagner l’election.

Le manque d’unite de l’opposition a egalement ete blâme par certains
pour expliquer la victoire ecrasante (près de 56 pour cent) enregistree
par le RPA.

Le depute Stepan Safaryan du Parti Heritage, qui a participe
a l’election sous l’etiquette du bloc Bonjour Erevan Bonjour,
a declare a ArmeniaNow : ” Aujourd’hui, nous recoltons ce que nous
avons seme hier. L’indifference des forces politiques de l’opposition
a l’issue de l’election presidentielle, les 600000 votes [acquis par
le parti Heritage de Raffi Hovannisian] n’a pas aide, mais a empeche
l’opposition de prendre cette capitale politique et de former une
unite. ”

Stepan Safaryan a decrit le resultat des elections de resultat obtenu
par le biais d’une facon ” malhonnete et injuste “. Il a egalement
suggere que le nom du bloc, Bonjour Erevan, a peut-etre ete confondu
par beaucoup d’electeurs qui etaient a la recherche du bulletin de
vote du parti Heritage.

Zoya Tadevosyan du parti du Congrès national Armenien (ANC) a decrit
les elections municipales en tant qu’elections de fraude et d’achat
de votes.

“Je pensais que la dignite ferait que les criminels seraient rejetes.

Mais il s’avère que la dignite a un prix et que lorsque de l’argent
est verse, la dignite devient secondaire “, a declare Zoya Tadevoyan,
ajoutant qu’elle ne pouvait rien dire sur les plans de l’ANC.

Plus tôt, l’ANC a publie une declaration accusant le ” regime ”
actuel d’avoir commis un autre crime electoral.

Dans un communique diffuse plus tard la FRA a declare : “La fusion de
l’Etat et du parti au pouvoir, l’application illimitee des ressources
administratives et l’achat de vote de gros ont fait leur travail.”

Le Parti Armenie prospère, qui a termine loin en deuxième position
n’avait pas fourni de commentaires au debut de l’après-midi.

Pendant ce temps, le porte-parole du RPA et directeur de campagne
Eduard Sharmazanov du maire sortant Taron Markarian a declare que les
elections du 5 mai ont prouve que le processus democratique lors des
elections locales en Armenie etait ” irreversible “. Il a dit qu’a la
suite des elections les personnes vivront dans ” une meilleure Erevan
” au cours des quatre prochaines annees.

Le president de la Commission electorale centrale Tigran Mukuchyan
a egalement salue le deroulement des elections, en disant qu’elles
ont eu lieu de facon organisee et calme.

Pendant ce temps, les analystes et les experts politiques ont presente
des vues differentes sur le vote de dimanche.

Richard Giragosian, directeur du Centre d’etudes regionales, a ecrit
sur son compte Facebook ” Après une election presidentielle meme
imparfait en Fevrier, cette election represente encore une autre”
occasion manquee “pour des progrès en matière de democratisation et
de meilleures elections en Armenie.”

mardi 7 mai 2013, Stephane ©armenews.com