Author: Kalantarian Kevo

RUSSIAN UNITS TAKE PART IN MILITARY EXERCISES IN ARMENIA

Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
April 18 2013

About 50 servicemen and 10 units of military and special equipment of
the Russian military base in Armenia participated in a special
tactical exercise which finished on Thursday, News-Armenia reported.

“Practical skills in conducting reconnaissance operations in
mountainous areas and urban environments were carried out during the
event,” the Press Service of the Southern Military District reported.

In accordance with the exercise plan, the intelligence agents had to
locate and destroy a command post to the rear of an imaginary enemy,
capturing secret information, as well as weapons and communications
equipment.

While implementing the tasks, unit personnel made an assault landing
from a helicopter and carried out covert relocation in a mountainous
forested area to the place of special actions.

In addition, during the simulations, the agents captured a command
post, located in one of the reinforced forts in so-called ‘Great
Fortress’ in Gyumri city, which has been the point of permanent
deployment of Russian troops in the South Caucasus from the early 19th
century to the present day.

THERE FACTS ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN ARCHIVES OF BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, BULGARIA AND IRAN. DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL ARCHIVE

19:56, 18 April, 2013

YEREVAN, APRIL 18, ARMENPRESS: Exploration of other countries’ archives
is of a crucial importance for Armenian national archive. As director
of national archive of Armenian Amatuni Virabyan noted in April 18
interview with journalist, national archives of Brazil, Argentina
and Bulgaria were not studied enough, while “they certainly contain
interesting information on Armenian Genocide”.

“There is still much work to do in Iranian archives,” Virabyan
underlined.

Director of national archives expressed his concern over the lack of
Ottoman language specialists in Armenia.

National archive of Armenia is the largest cache of documents on
Armenian Genocide, including 12,000 text documents.

GOVERNMENT TO ASSIST IT COMPANIES DEVELOPMENT

18/04/2013 13:37:00
Oratert News

The Government of the Republic of Armenia approved the information
technologies development program.

As Armenpress reports, at the session of the Government on April 18 the
Acting Minister of Economy of the Republic of Armenia Tigran Davtyan
stated that events would be organized jointly with the private sector
representatives. “We will implement certain actions with different
companies directed to the development of the field of information
technologies. It is intended to provide for the participation in
international exhibitions and conferences”, – said Tigran Davtyan.

The program aims at supporting the implementation of the programs
in Armenia, carried out by the Armenian-Indian IT Center, Microsoft
Innovation Center, Nokia and other transnational companies.

The sphere of information technologies is one of the most prior
directions for the Government of the Republic of Armenia and during
the last three years it provides a two-digit economic growth.

LEVON ZURABIAN: OPPOSITION’S VICTORY WILL SOLVE MANY PROBLEMS

Thursday,
April 18

The elections to Yerevan Council of Elders are a unique opportunity
to change something in Armenia, while the opposition’s victory will
solve a multitude of problems, the head of “Armenian National Congress”
(HAK) parliamentray faction Levon Zurabian told reporters today.

In his words, if the opposition wins the May 5 elections, the
authorities’ position will weaken and power will be given to the
people.

“A system of checks and balances will be set up in the system of
government and the people will use it. The political struggle will
move to a civilized field and both the opposition and the authorities
will speak by using concrete facts,” Zurabian stated.

According to him, HAK is ready to conduct an aggressive election
campaign.

TODAY, 16:08

Aysor.am

LEBANESE ENVOY PLEDGES TO DEEPEN COOPERATION WITH ARMENIA

April 18, 2013 – 17:20 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Newly-appointed Lebanese ambassador to Armenia Jean
Makaron presented his credentials to Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.

President Sargsyan congratulated the envoy on the appointment, wishing
him success. He noted that the visits on presidential level and the
active dialogue with Lebanon in the past years gave fresh impetus
to the development of bilateral relations, hailing the new programs
and initiatives.

Ambassador Makaron, in turn, pledged to further deepen
Armenian-Lebanese ties, presidential press service reported.

ARMENIA IDENTIFIES MAJOR PRIORITIES OF ITS UPCOMING CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE СOUNCIL OF EUROPE СOMMITTEE OF MINISTERS

YEREVAN, April 17. /ARKA/. Armenia has identified major priorities of
its upcoming chairmanship in the Committee of Ministers of the
Council of Europe, which will be passed to it in May 2013, Armenia’s
acting foreign minister Edward Nalbandian said Wednesday at a joint
news conference with the visiting secretary general of the Council of
Europe Thorbjørn Jagland.

“When deciding our priorities during our chairmanship in the
Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, we tried to combine
the pressing issues on the organization’s agenda with issues which
Armenia views as its own priorities, namely human rights, rule of
law and democracy,’ he said.

Nalbandian said Armenia’s plan of actions will be announced on May 16
in Strasbourg. It calls for a number of activities at the level of
parliaments, constitutional courts, foreign affairs ministries of the
member countries on issues such as fight against discrimination and
intolerance, cultural and religious dialogue, education and youth
policy.

He added that during Armenia’s chairmanship in the organization
Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan and some other top leaders will make
visits to Strasbourg.

In turn, Thorbjørn Jagland praised Armenian authorities for making
progress in the implementation of its membership commitments and
enforcement of reforms in the fields of human rights, the rule of law
and democracy.

“We discussed Armenia’s program of activities, which is very
constructive and consonant with the agenda of the organization”, he
said.

Jagland also commended the authorities of Armenia for setting up a
working group to consider the recommendations of international
observers to reform the electoral system and for establishment of a
parliamentary commission to investigate the events of March 1-2, 2008
in Yerevan.

The decision to establish an ad hoc commission to study the tragic
events of March 1-2, 2008 was made by a parliament committee on March
15 on the initiative of deputies from the opposition Armenian National
Congress.

It will be the second ad hoc parliamentary commission to study those
events. The first one was established in June, 2008 under the
pressure of the PACE. Its report was presented to the parliament on
16-17 September 2009. -0-

SAKHAROV SQUARE BUILDING: ANOTHER CASE OF MISPLACED “EMINENT DOMAIN”

Kristine Aghalaryan

[25607.jpg] 16:57, April 17, 2013

The building in the photo, located at 2 Pushkin Street facing Sakharov
Square, is registered as a local monument.

The government has allocated it to an outfit called Local Developers,
Ltd., a company founded by Samvel Mayrapetyan and his wife Gohar
Kyalyan, former rector of the State Medical University.

The building was designed by the architect N. Buniatyan and went up
in 1930.

Up until last year, the building housed the No. 8 fire and emergency
services unit of the RA Ministry of Emergency Situations. In September,
the unit relocated to a new building on Myasnikian Street.

The building now serves as a garage for local residents and officials
of nearby government agencies. The parking spaces are being rented
out. A local lad named Davit refuted the claim that the parking
spaces are being rented out by the month. Davit told me that the cars
belong to his friends and relatives and that the fire brigade chief
had requested that he keep his eyes on the site so that the homeless
don’t move in.

Samvel Mayrapetyan could say nothing about the parked cars. He claimed
ignorance and said that he hadn’t started to provide security for
the site.

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On May 7, 2009, the government decided to allocate the building to
Mayrapetyan, arguing that the new owner would thus be compensated for
agreeing to cover the costs of building a new structure for the fire
and emergency unit on Myasnikian Street.

In response to a Hetq inquiry sent to the Yerevan Municipality, the
Office of the Chief Architect said that the municipality had granted
no construction permits regarding the building.

Samvel Mayrapetyan told Hetq that he hadn’t yet decided what his plans
are for the landmark building, given that the process of buying up the
property of residents in the immediate vicinity hadn’t been completed.

Thus, it turns out that not only has the landmark building been
allocated to Samvel Mayrapetyan under the pretense of eminent domain,
but adjacent properties as well.

(To be continued)

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ARMENIAN-RUSSIAN MILITARY COOPERATION ISSUES DISCUSSED

16:20, 17 April, 2013

YEREVAN, APRIL 17, ARMENPRESS: The delegation, headed by the Acting
Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia Seyran Ohanyan,
arrived in the Russian Federation with an official visit on April
17. The meeting of the delegations headed by the two Ministers of
Defense of the both countries took place on the same day.

As Armenpress was reported by the Department for Information and Public
Relations of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, during
the meeting the Acting Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia
Seyran Ohanyan and the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation
Sergey Shoigu discussed the current problems and prospects in the
bilateral military and technical cooperation, exchanged opinions on
the issues related to the regional security preservation, highlighted
the strengthening of peace and stability in the region.

The interlocutors highlighted the positive trends and the bilateral
interest in the future development between the Ministries of Defense
of the both countries.

VOVA ONLY PUT REVOLUTION TO SLEEP

Armenia is haunted by the ghost of revolution. Except the RPA all the
others claim, each in their own way, it is impossible to do without
a revolution. Even the PAP wants to change everything, starting
from Yerevan.

The ex-chief of police of Armenia Alik Sargsyan promised to suffocate
the revolution in the cradle. The chief of police Vladimir Gasparyan
thinks on April 9 he succeeded putting the revolution to sleep in
the cradle. However, he only pushed it to wake up.

In the long run, the revolution has started. Earlier when the world
was divided to classes, revolutions took place when one of the classes
became strong enough to protect their rights and dignity. There have
been bourgeois, proletarian revolutions.

Now the society is not divided to classes, there is a watershed between
the group which has usurped the right to use national wealth and make
decisions and the citizens who think their rights and dignity have
been violated.

In Armenia the fight is for rights and dignity. And the revolution
which takes place as soon as the citizens present a bill of rights
and dignity to the ruling group. In different countries different
methods are used for this, including violence, lynching, new elections.
Armenia has not chosen the way.

The government is waiting for a revolution because it knows better
about the revolutionary moods. It is not accidental that on April 9
ammunition was reportedly found in one of the streets of Yerevan. It
means that the government was preparing for action.

Were such actions prepared on April 9? Many people ask this question.
Many people think that the readiness of the system, opposition and
society was checked. The results are most probably scrutinized at
the police and those who think that a revolution is an indefeasible
right of citizens.

On April 9 the revolution did not happen but it does not mean that
it will not happen one day.

Naira Hayrumyan 16:30 17/04/2013
Story from Lragir.am News:

INVESTIGATION OF PROSHYAN VILLAGE HEAD MURDER IN PROGRESS

16:47 ~U 18.04.13

The information and public relations department, Police of Armenia,
informed Tert.am that the Head Investigation Department continues
investigating the murder of Hranch Muradyan, head of the Proshyan
village community.

Two days after the murder, police detained Artak and Araik Petrosyan.

Later, however, one of the brothers, Araik Petrosyan was arrested
and his brother Artak was released from custody.

The young men’s father Arshaluis Petrosyan addressed an open letter
to Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, acting Prosecutor General
of Armenia Aghvan Hovsepyan and acting Chief of Armenia’s police
Vladimir Gasparyan.

Armenian News – Tert.am