Author: Kalantarian Kevo

“ZHOGHOVURD”: “ARTAK OF SAS” BEGAN HIS “DIRTY WORK”

25/04/2013 13:42:00
Oratert News

Citizens, who called the edition of the newspaper “Zhoghovurd”
said that they are employees of “SAS” supermarket and these days
had to register in Arabkir district. On the eve of a member of
RPA parliamentary faction, the owner of the “SAS” supermarket Artak
Sargsyan told his employees during working hours to go home and bring
their passports, in order to rapidly resolve registration issues.

In addition, Sargsyan urged necessarily take part in the upcoming
May 5 elections of Yerevan Council of Elders and vote in favor of
the Republican Party. On this occasion, the newspaper interviewed
Artak Sargsyan. Naturally, he immediately denied everything. “No,
this is not true, this is a lie,” the deputy stated. While supermarket
workers assert the contrary.

NEWSPAPER: TWO-THREE AIRLINES WILL EMERGE IN THE ARMENIAN MARKET

25/04/2013 14:22:00 arminfo.info

A Yerevan-based Haykakan Zhamanak Daily reports that 2-3 companies
will replace Armavia airline that has been announced bankrupt.

The companies are not named, as negotiations and discussions on the
given issue are currently underway. Sources in the government report
that mechanisms of activity are being developed taking into account
the current competition with Russian air companies in the market.

On April 25 the Public Council will conduct hearings on the situation
in the civil aviation fielding the country.

Armavia national air carrier has launched bankruptcy procedure and
stopped flights due to debts. The owner of Armavia, President of Mika
Limited Mikhail Bagdasarov said in an interview with ArmInfo that
the company’s debt does not exceed $50 million, with the current debt
being the main part of it. Armavia’s shareholders are MIKA LTD – 34.99%
and Aviafin LLC – 65.01%. Bagdasarov set up Armavia in 1996 and sold
it to Russian S7. In 2005 pressured by the Armenian tax authorities,
S7 gave the company back to Bagdasarov. It was the first to exploit
SSJ-100. Armavia carried out over 100 flights to over 40 destinations
in 20 countries.

IF ONLY EVERYONE: A MOVIE ABOUT KARABAKH WAR WINS AWARDS AT BEIJING INT’L FESTIVAL

ARTS AND CULTURE | 25.04.13 | 12:43

Photo:

Vahagn Simonyan

A movie of joint Armenian-Russian production telling about the Karabakh
war has won two top prizes at the 3rd International Film Festival in
Beijing, China.

According to the official website of the Festival, which ended on
April 23, the movie, ‘If Only Everyone’, by Natalija Bieliauskiene,
received awards for ‘Best Supporting Actor’ (Vahagn Simonyan) and
‘Best Music’ (Vahagn Hayrapetyan).

The plot of the 94-minute movie weaves around the daughter of a Russian
officer who was killed in the Karabakh war; she comes to Armenia 20
years after her father’s death and is trying to find his lost grave
to plant the birch seedling she has brought along from home.

The authors of ‘If Only Everyone’ stress that while being a
recollection of the 1992-1994 hostilities in and around Karabakh,
the movie is more about peace than war and is a unique call for
forgiveness and tolerance.

‘If Only Everyone’ has also won awards at other international film
festivals, including at Golden Apricot in Yerevan, and was on the
long list of the Oscar Academy Award as the Best Foreign Language
Film in 2012.

AGBU Press Office
55 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022-1112
Phone: 212.319.6383
Email: [email protected]
Website:

PRESS RELEASE

Friday, April 26, 2013

City of Los Angeles Honors AGBU Generation Next Mentorship Program

Ararat Home and Genocide survivor Rose Garjian are also recognized at
Genocide Commemoration ceremony.

LOS ANGELES, CA – The AGBU Generation Next Mentorship Program was
honored by the City of Los Angeles at its annual Armenian Genocide
Commemoration ceremony, held at the Los Angeles City Council Chamber
on April 19th. Both AGBU GenNext and the Ararat Home were also
recognized for their outstanding contributions to the Armenian and the
greater community of Los Angeles.

Councilmembers Paul Krekorian and Eric Garcetti, a former City Council
president, jointly led the commemoration of the 98th anniversary of
the Genocide. Representing AGBU GenNext were former Committee Chair
Hagop Jazmadarian and Treasurer Maida Tchaprazian, along with GenNext
Case Manager Alfred Bedrossian and AGBU Western District Executive
Director, Yasmin Alpay.

Mr. Jazmadarian took the podium to thank the councilmembers for
recognizing the AGBU GenNext program and its dedicated volunteer
mentors, and emphasized the critical role mentors play in the lives of
Armenian youth in Los Angeles. “Our youth are matched one-to-one with
successful and caring mentors, who become guiding forces in their
young lives,” he said.

For his part, Councilmember Krekorian shared with the Chamber the role
he played in the genesis of AGBU GenNext, which was pivotal. As part
of the Young Professionals of Los Angeles in the 1990s, Councilmember
Krekorian was one of the program’s founding members and has been an
avid supporter ever since.

Alongside AGBU, Ararat Home and its 104 year old resident and Genocide
survivor, Rose Garjian, were also recognized. Ararat Home was honored
for its immense contribution to the elderly Armenian-American
community of Southern California.

Councilmembers Krekorian and Garcetti remembered the 1.5 million
Armenian martyrs, invoking the memory of the Genocide to prevent such
crimes against humanity in the future.

Established in 1906, AGBU () is the world’s largest
non-profit Armenian organization. Headquartered in New York City, AGBU
preserves and promotes the Armenian identity and heritage through
educational, cultural and humanitarian programs, annually touching the
lives of some 400,000 Armenians around the world.

For more information about AGBU and its worldwide programs, please
visit

By Alexa Tieu

Story Created: Apr 24, 2013 at 9:19 PM MDT
Story Updated: Apr 24, 2013 at 10:21 PM MDT

Twin Falls, Idaho ( KMVT-TV / KTWT-TV ) A group of Twin Falls community
members came together to remember one of the worst genocides in the 20th
century.

Armenian community members gathered at the Twin Falls City Park to remember
the history of their people.

They suffered through two genocides in the 20th century, and hope to educate
others about the dangers of persecution.

“There’s no future without history…without past,” says Violet Nahapet. She
explains, “This is a little community we have here but we get together on
this day to remember the ones that were killed just because they were of
Christian faith…just because they were Armenian.”

The Armenian community here does not have a lot of people, but they have a
lot of heart.

“We are the second generation of Armenians who went through genocide, but in
a different area – in Azerbaijan. We’re the ones that are the very blessed
ones to have the opportunity to come into this country and have this
beautiful freedom,” says Nahapet.

This is the 98th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Members of the Twin
Falls Armenian community meet at the City Park every year to commemorate the
event.”

Mike Williams, City of Twin Falls says, “For the past several years, we’ve
recognized April 24th as Twin Falls Armenian Memorial Day in support of our
Armenian Community and the persecution that they suffered.”

Mayor Greg Lanting was asked by a community member two years ago for the
remembrance plaque and tree.

The mayor also issued a proclamation for the memorial day.

Nahapet says, “It’s very important to us to have a place to come to remember
because not only in 1915, but we lost our loved ones in 1988 through 1990.”

“It’s important that we embrace all the different cultures in our community
because we want to be a welcoming community and welcome those from different
cultures and backgrounds… and let them know we support them and want them
to live and thrive here,” explains Williams.

Historians estimate 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks in
the 1915 genocide.

President Barack Obama has called the event quote “one of the worst
atrocities of the 20th century.”

ARMENIAN ISSUE MUST BE PULLED FROM BETWEEN HAMMER AND ANVIL

The Armenian issue is a convenient lever used by leading states in
their relations with Turkey. The general impression is that everyone
benefits from the Armenian cause except Armenia. The role of Armenia
does not go beyond that of an artifact.

It first of all comes from the quality and behavior of Armenian
officials, politicians and Diaspora organizations who refrain from
opposing the political goals of their partners, initiatives that
would be out of control.

On the other hand, the behavior of foreign stakeholders is also
understood. Armenia cannot oppose this logic but also has to “filter”
the political goals of external parties in order to be ready for any
turn in future developments.

In this regard it is important to clarify Russia’s attitude to the
Armenian cause. For explicable reasons there is a stereotyped thinking
in Armenia that Turkey and the West are against Armenia and part of
Armenia was saved thanks to Russia. Meanwhile, historical facts and
logic claim the opposite. Notably, Russia did not try to prevent
displacement and massacres of Armenians and even helped Turkey to
achieve its goals.

Later on as the West was redesigning the Ottoman Empire and the
Armenian state was foreseen by the agreement of Sevres, Turkey could
prevent it with the help of Russia. Russia helped the exhausted
Turkish government and army with weapon, troops and others. And
in 1921 the unlawful Russian-Turkish agreement was signed by which
Russia recognized Turkey and Turkey got the Armenian territories,
and the present border between Armenia and Turkey was laid out.

Armenia has not recognized this border so far while in 2011 Turkey
and Russia reasserted their loyalty to this agreement in Moscow.

The Russian-Turkish relations have repeatedly escalated and
normalized at the expense of the Armenians and territories inhabited
by Armenians. Recently Russia has built its relations with Turkey at
the expense of the interests of Armenians, notably an effort was made
to return Karabakh to Azerbaijan.

The more the relations between Turkey and the West aggravate,
the more the Russian-Turkish relations strengthen. So was in the
abovementioned period, so is now and so will be in the future when
the issue of Turkey’s fragmentation will be on the agenda.

Moscow and Ankara are partners in defeating Armenian claims on the
international arena. Russia is able to neutralize all the initiatives
relating to the Armenian issue, including the international recognition
of the independence of Karabakh, using its levers on the Armenian
government and its fifth column, the pro-Russian experts of Armenian
origin and the Union of Armenians of Russia whose main goal is lobby
of Russia’s interests at the expense of the Armenian interests.

Time changes, real issues and approaches are discussed more
substantially in Armenia. The Armenian political class must get over
stereotypes and style imposed on it and use the Armenian cause as its
own weapon and rid of the role of an artifact and something between
the hammer and anvil.

Turkey’s fragmentation may come true, and Armenia must be ready for
that not to get under the ruins once again. We did not resist in
West Armenia because someone had reassured that Russia would defend
the Armenians. We resisted and won in Karabakh because there were
no illusions, especially that Russia fought against the Armenians,
on Azerbaijan’s side.

One more thing: whether tsarist, communist, democratic or sovereign,
Russia conducts the same policy, which is natural and logical because
the interests of Armenia are not in line with Russia’s interests in
the region, this is the rule and it cannot be ignored in building
new Armenian-Russian relations.

Haik Aramyan 16:55 24/04/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:

DAVID HARUTYUNYAN: SAMAD SEYIDOV’S STATEMENT HAS NO CONNECTION TO REALITY

Panorama.am
24/04/2013

The statement of head of the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE Samad
Seyidov has no connection to reality, head of the Armenian delegation
to PACE David Harutyunyan told Panorama.am.

Samad Seyidov recently told the Azerbaijani media that a meeting
between the delegations of Armenia and Azerbaijan will take place
within the PACE Subcommittee on Karabakh during the PACE spring
session.

This statement was strange because the mentioned Subcommittee does not
exist for a long time. So we asked David Harutyunyan for a comment. He
said: “First of all, there haven’t been any meetings or consultations
held within any Ad Hoc Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly, let
alone the non-existing one. To express myself in a diplomatic way,
I have to state that Mr. Seyidov’s statements have no connection to
reality at all.

The truth is that several confidential meetings have been organized
under the auspices of the President of the Parliamentary with the heads
of Armenian and Azeri delegations to discuss ways of cooperation and
reconciliation between the delegations.

The political will to start a genuine dialogue aimed at the fostering
reconciliation between the delegations was highlighted during these
meetings and one of the most important agreements was the commitment
of parties to maintain confidentiality of the negotiations.

Unfortunately this simple commitment not only was disrespected by
our Azeri colleague, but the truth was distorted and used for the
purpose of propaganda.”

NEVER FORGET ARMENIAN GENOCIDE – KIM KARDASHIAN

April 24, 2013 | 22:00

Famous American celebrity of Armenian descent Kim Kardashian posted
a link on her Celebuzz webpage, where she stresses the importance to
honor the memory of the 1.5 million Armenians who were killed in the
1915 Armenian Genocide.

“I am incredibly proud of my Armenian roots and that is why it is so
important for me to spread the word about the Armenian Genocide. It is
so important for me to honor the memory of the 1.5 million Armenians
who were killed in the 1915 Armenian Genocide. My thoughts and prayers
will always be with all my fellow Armenians. I will never forget the
fear and pain this has caused my ancestors and those close to me and
will continue to do everything in my power to educate those around
me so that there is a truthful and just resolution of the Armenian
Genocide. I love my heritage so much, this will be a part of me
forever. Xo,” reads Kardashian’s post.

TRADITIONAL TORCH MARCH TO TSITSERNAKABERT LAUNCHED IN YEREVAN

19:42, 23 April, 2013

YEREVAN, APRIL 23, ARMENPRESS: Traditional march with torches from
Independence Square to Tsitsernakaber launched in Yerevan on the eve of
98th anniversary of Armenian Genocide. As Armenpress reporter informs,
thousands of young people from public organizations, parties, students’
unions and just individual citizens participate in the march.

As a protest sign participants burnt the Turkish flag expressing
their anger over the denial policy of the country.

Attendees are very determined and united, demanding Turkey and
international community to recognize events of 1915 in Ottoman Empire
as Armenian Genocide.

That is the 14th march with torches held in Yerevan.

GENOCIDE 100TH ANNIVERSARY TO MARK SERIOUS DIVIDE – ARMENIAN OPPOSITION LEADER

16:16 ~U 24.04.13

Two years from now, Yerevan’s Tsitsernakaberd Park will see Armenians
commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Genocide in a completely
new state, the opposition Heritage party’s leader told reporters
today in the Genocide remembrance park.

“The 100th anniversary does not imply an end to the struggle. The
struggle is continual. The 100th anniversary is not a limitation
period; it marks the divide which has to force Turkey to decide between
paying reward without preconditions and accepting the Armenian people’s
victory,” Raffi Hovhannisian said.

The politician believes Armenia’s current policies contribute to
Turkey’s denialism. “I support accountability measures for Turkey
and the world community, but we must be in a country protecting and
respecting the law and the Constitution,” he said.

“Domestic policies should not be linked to foreign policies, but it
is important to break the flock stereotype,” Hovhannisian continued.

Armenian News – Tert.am