Author: Kalantarian Kevo

MILITARY-ECONOMIC COOPERATION ENSURES THE INVOLVEMENT OF CSTO MEMBER STATES IN WORLD ECONOMY
Artak Barseghyan

“Radiolur”
19:07 30.01.2013

The military production enterprises may be reopened in Armenia, which
will give a new impetus to the reinforcement of the country’s defense
capacity and will promote the process of creation of new jobs. Some
prerequisites have been created in this domain thanks to the efforts
of the Interdepartmental Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation
of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). The commission
convened a sitting in Yerevan today.

Military-economic cooperation ensures the involvement of CSTO member
states in world economy, Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan
declared. It can serve as an important lever to implement the defense
policy and guarantee the national interest.

He attached importance to the establishment of a modern and effective
military-economic and military-technical cooperation in the system
of collective security.

RENOWNED PIANIST BERND GLEMSER TO GIVE CONCERT IN YEREVAN

15:55, 30 January, 2013

YEREVAN, JANAURY 30, ARMENPRESS. A world-famous German pianist Bernd
Glemser will give a concert in “Aram Khachaturyan” Concert Hall,
Yerevan, on February 1. As reports “Armenpress” the Director of the
State Philharmonic Orchestra of Armenia Ruzanna Sirunyan stated that
the orchestra starts 2013 with new incentive, ideas and musician.

Among other things Director of the State Philharmonic Orchestra of
Armenia Ruzanna Sirunyan noted: “The whole program of the concert has
a quite rich program. We are considering performance of Brukner’s
symphony. The current year is noteworthy due to the anniversary of
such outstanding composers as Wagner and Verdi.”

Bernd Glemser (born 1962, Durbheim) is a German pianist. A student of
Vitaly Margulis, in 1989 he became Germany’s youngest piano professor
at Saarbrucken’s Musikhochschule. He has recorded major pieces by
Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Schumann, Scriabin, and Tchaikovsky as well
as pieces by Liszt, Tausig, Godowski and Busoni. In 2003 Glemser was
decorated with the Bundesverdienstkreuz. The pianist has particular
affinity for the works of Sergey Rachmaninov. This makes Glemser the
obvious choice for Wolfgang Sawallisch to have invited to perform the
composer’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Philadelphia Orchestra. The
ensemble, which recorded with Rachmaninov during the composer’s
lifetime, celebrated its 100th birthday with this work.

DESIGN SELECTED FOR ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MEMORIAL IN PASADENA

January 29, 2013 | 7:42 pm

The winning design for a public memorial in Pasadena commemorating
the Armenian genocide was announced Tuesday.

The design by Catherine Menard – a student at the Art Center College
of Design, which submitted the concept to the Pasadena Armenian
Genocide Memorial Committee for consideration – was praised as an “an
emotionally compelling design” that would serve to “inspire a similar
emotional connection in those who encounter it, for generations to
come,” according to an announcement issued Tuesday.

The central feature of Menard’s design — a carved-stone basin of
water straddled by a tripod arrangement of three columns leaning into
one another — is a single drop of water that falls from the highest
point every three seconds, each “teardrop” representing one life lost,
according to the college.

A rendering of the winning design was not immediately available.

Over the course of one year, 1.5 million “tears” will fall into the
pool, representing the estimated number of people who died during the
Armenian genocide of 1915 to 1918, which occurred under the Ottoman
Empire, or what is now the modern republic of Turkey.

The Turkish government disputes that a genocide occurred, claiming
the victims were killed in the chaos of World War I.

The project is slated for Memorial Park in Pasadena and is expected
to be completed by April 24, 2015, the 100th anniversary for
commemorations of the genocide.

Menard, a 26-year-old of French Cajun heritage who is majoring in
environmental design at the college, had to first immerse herself in
the brutal history of the Armenian people to come up with concept.

In a statement, Menard said the research process was engrossing and
inspirational.

“At first I felt unworthy — who am I to respond to such loss?” she
said. “But art lends itself to the deepest, darkest parts of human
experience. It can create sympathy, empathy, understanding. I wanted
to pair this horror with something uplifting and beautiful, to create
a way to remember.

“I developed three different ideas and settled on the one that I felt
most terrified and most moved by.”

–Jason Wells, Times Community News

STRING OF ATTACKS AGAINST ARMENIAN CHRISTIANS IN ISTANBUL

CWN – January 30, 2013

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and Guide (eBook) Five Armenian Christians have been attacked recently
in an Istanbul neighborhood. One 85-year-old murder victim was stabbed
repeatedly and had a cross carved on her corpse.

“Opinion remains divided as to whether these are organized hate crimes
targeting non-Muslims or just random theft,” The Economist reports.

“Istanbul’s governor, Huseyin Avni Mutlu, insists that it was the
latter.”

MERDINIAN SCHOOL RECEIVES $1 MILLION DONATION

Tuesday, January 29th, 2013

Merdinian students gather in front of the school administration
building SHERMAN OAKS, Calif.-The Board of Directors of the Charlotte
and Elise Merdinian Armenian Evangelical School announced on Monday
that Mr. and Mrs. Albert and Terry Bezjian of Los Angeles, founders of
Indo-European Foods of Glendale, have donated $1 million to the school.

These funds are designated for the addition of a second floor over the
school’s administration building. This project will provide the school
with additional room and flexibility to better meet its ongoing needs.

The building presently houses the administrative offices, the newly
renovated computer lab. and several classrooms. Upon completion of
construction, it shall be named the Bezjian Building.

The Board of Directors and Administration of the school expressed
their gratitude to Mr. and Mrs. Bezjian for this most generous
gift. A donation of this magnitude is a testimony to the benefactors’
confidence in the bright future of the school.

ELECTIONS CONDUCTED IN ARMENIA NEVER CORRESPONDED TO INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS – ARMENIAN HELSINKI COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN

TERT.AM
12:53 ~U 30.01.13

Election is not only the voting process and in case of Armenia it
has never been conducted in accordance with international standards,
chairman of Armenian Helsinki Committee Avetik Ishkhanyan (first
from left) said at the public hearing today dedicated to the upcoming
presidential election.

The discussion has been convened by Eastern Partnership civil
society forum~Rs Armenia~Rs National platform and Partnership for
Open Society initiative.

~SCompetition has always been during each presidential election
but every time after rigged elections the post-electoral situation
in Armenia was hard and rather dramatic,~T he said, stressing that
change of power in Armenia is being tied with a person.

The regular start to the situation with the upcoming presidential
election was given by the May 2012 parliamentary polls.

~SNow the Prosperous Armenia party considers itself an alternative
and till now I do not have any explanation to it and it just remains
to make conclusions why other three parliamentary forces except the
Republican party refused to participate in the presidential poll. It
is very strange,~T he said, adding that these elections differ from
previous one with the circumstance that we are going not to polls
but to voting.

“HRAPARAK”: VARDAN GHUKASYAN’S SHADOW STILL HAUNTS SAMVEL BALASANYAN

2013-01-30 10:37:33

“The former mayor ofGyumri, Vardanik’s, Vardan Ghukasyan’s shadow
still haunts Gyumri mayor Samvel Balasanyan,” writes the newspaper
“Hraparak.” Recently, a story-anecdote has beeen spread in the city.

One of the heads of departments of Municipality walked into the
office and asked Balasanyan: “And are we going to celebrate Vardanants
holiday?. They say Balasanyan protested and shouted: “Do not say that
name any more.”

The newspaper notes that Vardanants holiday this year will be
celebrated on February 7.

WHERE ARE ARMENIA’S OLIGARCHS? – NEWSPAPER

NEWS.AM
January 30, 2013 | 08:31

YEREVAN. – This year’s presidential election in Armenia differs from
the previous one also in the sense that, in the previous voting, the
task of securing votes to the candidate of the authorities was placed,
first and foremost, upon the MPs that were elected into parliament
by way of majority election; and, as it is known, these MPs had a
criminal-oligarchic track-record, Chorrord Inknishkhanutyun (CI)
daily reports.

“In this election campaign, however, [the ruling Republican Party
candidate, incumbent President] Serzh Sargsyan’s team has intentionally
isolated the oligarchs, wishing to create the illusion that, as if,
the criminal and the oligarchy are decoupled from the working regime.

So, according to CI’s information, the instructions to secure votes
[for Sargsyan] outside [capital city] Yerevan are [now] handed down
to the regional governors, mayors, [and] village prefects; that is to
say, to the officials that hold office in the state apparatus. And
this means, now, they will rig [the presidential election] with
‘lawful procedures,’ too,” Chorrord Inknishkhanutyun writes.

A ISTANBUL, LE TOURISME DE LA MOUSTACHE BAT SON PLEIN
Stephane

armenews.com
mercredi 30 janvier 2013

On connaissait les bains turcs, le cafe et les fameux “delices”
sucres. La moustache est desormais en passe de les rejoindre au
rang des specialites mondialement reconnues de la Turquie, où de
plus en plus d’hommes en mal de poils viennent se faire greffer les
respectueuses bacchantes dignes de leur rang.

Si elle disparaît a l’ouest, la moustache reste un attribut masculin
très en vogue en Turquie et au Moyen-Orient. Au point que les hommes
les moins bien dotes par la nature n’hesitent plus a remettre le
sort de leur système pileux deficient entre les mains de chirurgiens
esthetiques.

Le Dr Selahattin Tulunay est l’un d’eux. A la tete d’un prospère
cabinet prive jusque-la specialise dans les transplantations de
cheveux, ce chirurgien esthetique s’est rapidement adapte a cette
nouvelle demande.

“Cela fait environ trois ans que je fais des implants de moustaches”,
confie-t-il, “beaucoup d’hommes sont venus me voir en me disant +j’ai
40 ans, je suis a la tete d’une grosse entreprise et a l’etranger, on
ne me prend pas au serieux, je veux que l’on voie que j’ai des poils”.

Tout juste trentenaire, Engin Koc s’est longtemps desespere de son
visage glabre. Avant de s’offrir, il y a sept mois, la “brosse” de ses
reves sur une table d’operation. “J’ai voulu ressembler aux anciens
Turcs, aux Ottomans, et comme j’ai l’âme assez nostalgique et une
admiration pour cette epoque, j’ai fait ces implants”, raconte-t-il
avec fierte, “la moustache est un symbole de la virilite turque”.

Depuis des lustres, la moustache est effectivement une affaire très
serieuse en Turquie. Un dicton populaire y affirme d’ailleurs qu’un
“homme sans moustache est comme une maison sans balcon”. Sa forme y
est meme lue politiquement.

“Broussailleuse, facon Staline, elle est plutôt l’apanage de la gauche
ou des Kurdes”, explique l’anthropologue Benoît Fliche, de l’Institut
francais d’etudes anatoliennes d ?Istanbul. “Mince, comme celle du
Premier ministre Recep Tayyip Erdogan, elle devient religieuse et
conservatrice (…) Et si elle descend en forme de crocs de part et
d’autre de la bouche, elle est alors marquee a l’extreme droite”.

Forfaits moustache

Meme si elle seduit aujourd’hui un peu moins les Turcs des grandes
villes, plus tournes vers la mode occidentale, la moustache et la
barbe restent un “must” pour la gent masculine des pays arabes ou des
republiques turcophones d’Asie centrale, qui font le voyage d’Istanbul
pour satisfaire leur appetit de poils.

“Les series televisees turques diffusees dans le monde arabe ont
une grande influence”, assure le Dr Tulunay, “c’est en voyant nos
acteurs que ces patients sont venus nous demander les memes barbes
ou les memes moustaches”.

Ces clients constituent l’essentiel de ce nouveau marche de la
“pilosite faciale”. Rien qu’a Istanbul, quelque 250 cliniques ou
cabinets prives se livrent une concurrence acharnee pour vendre leurs
services, a grands coups de promotions.

La plupart se sont associes a des agences de voyage et proposent des
formules qui incluent l’operation et le sejour a l’hôtel de leurs
patients, qu’elles prennent en charge dès l’aeroport… Les plus
competitifs proposent des forfaits “moustaches” très avantageux a
partir de 2.000 euros, bien moins chers que chez leurs concurrents
europeens ou americains.

Le tourisme du poil bat son plein donc, confortablement assis sur la
progression constante du nombre de visiteurs etrangers qui se pressent
en Turquie. Plus de 35 millions en 2012, selon les estimations.

“Chaque semaine, nous accueillons entre 50 et 60 patients pour
une greffe de cheveux, et 5 a 6 pour une greffe de moustaches”,
se rejouit le Dr Meral Tala, chirurgienne au Istanbul Hair Center,
“et comme nos resultats sont bien meilleurs qu’avant, nous prevoyons
une très grande augmentation des demandes”. Les chirurgiens esthetiques
d’Istanbul n’ont pas fini de se friser les moustaches.

mercredi 30 janvier 2013, Stephane ©armenews.com

WHO WILL REPLACE ARMENIAN PUBLIC TELEVISION AND RADIO COMPANY COUNCIL CHAIRMAN?

29.01.13

The tenure of the Armenian Public Television and Radio Company Council
chairman Alexan Harutyunyan comes to an end on February 1. He has
no right to apply to the position again, having served for already
second time.

For the second time Harutyunyan was elected in the office in late
January 2007 with six year term.

According to the corresponding law, ten days are provided for the
nomination of candidacies and the information about them is being
published by mass media. The president appoints one of the winners
of the competition as member of the Council.

According to media outlets, different names are being circulated
starting from the spokesperson of the president Armen Arzumanyan,
ending with the director of Sharm Holding Ruben Jaghinyan and
president’s aide Avetis Berberyan.

Tert.am’s sources though claim that the name of the executive director
of Public Radio Armen Amiryan is also being circulated.

In an interview Alexan Harutyunyan gave to Tert.am few months ago, he
shrugged off the possibility of returning to his former, diplomatic
career. As to the assessment of his work during his two tenures,
he said he leaves it to public.