Author: Kalashian Nyrie

EACH CHESS OLYMPIC CHAMPION TO GET 7.5 MILLION AMD
AZG Armenian Daily
09/06/2006
The Armenian Government decided yesterday to grant each member of
Armenia’s victorious chess Olympic team 7.5 million AMD. In accordance
with government’s decision of 2001, sportsmen who achieve good results
in the Olympic Games, world and Europe events receive 2.5 million
AMD. Additional 5 million was allocated from the reserve fund.

IRANIAN TV REPRESENTED KARABAKH AS INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC. BAKU DISCONTENT
PanARMENIAN.Net
07.06.2006 17:07 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Baku expressed discontent over the fact that the
State Iranian Television presented Nagorno Karabakh as an independent
republic on the news. As head of the press office of the Congress of
Azerbaijanis of the World Ali Nicat stated, in a report covering the
Bucharest talks of the Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents Iran TV 1
journalist said, “The Independent Nagorno Karabakh Republic proclaimed
its independence 15 years ago. Now Azerbaijan raises territorial claims
to the republic.” “We perceive it as a threat to Azerbaijan from the
direction of Iran, since Southern Azerbaijan has an information outlet
into the world via the Azerbaijani republic only. With such threats
Iran wishes to force Azerbaijan to close this outlet,” he said,
reported Day.az.

ECONOMIC COOPERATION WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE SOLUTION OF PROBLEMS
A1+
[08:27 pm] 07 June, 2006
“The economic cooperation and the development of the communicative
means between the countries of the region will form an atmosphere
of trust which will contribute to the solution of the problems in
the region”, NA President Tigran Torosyan mentioned today in Yerevan
opening the 27th plenary session of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation
Summit.
Delegations of the legislative bodies of 11 member-countries of
the BSEC (except those from Serbia and Montenegro) as well as
representatives of international organizations participate in the
works of the session. Tigran Torosyan noted that during the past
six months of the presidency of Armenia steps have been taken towards
stimulating economic cooperation, the juridical ground of the structure
has been strengthened, and different committees of the organization
have convened session discussing issues about combating economic
crimes and enhancing dialogues between the countries.
By the way, at the end of the session the representatives of the
Azeri Parliament will take up the presidency over the summit for the
coming six months. The next plenary session of the BSEC will take
place in Azerbaijan.
It is noteworthy that the RA Parliament has allotted special bodyguards
to the Azeri and Turkish delegates, although the guests felt quite
safe about which they informed the journalists.
The BSEC Parliamentary Assembly will continue its work tomorrow.

ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO VISIT UKRAINE ON 19 JUNE
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev
6 Jun 06
Kiev, 6 June: Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan will pay an
official visit to Ukraine on 19 June, the spokesman of the Ukrainian
Foreign Ministry, Vasyl Filipchuk, told a briefing in Kiev today.
He said Oskanyan is planning to meet Ukraine’s high-ranking officials
to discuss current problems of bilateral cooperation, particularly
the ways to accelerate trade and economic cooperation between the
two countries, interaction within the framework of international
organizations and European integration.
Special attention will be paid to the settlement of frozen conflicts
in Southern Caucasus.

DIRTY WATER SUPPLIED IN CITY OF ARMAVIR, RESIDENTS WORRIED ABOUT SPREAD OF INTESTINAL DISEASE
Noyan Tapan
Jun 06 2006
ARMAVIR, JUNE 6, NOYAN TAPAN. “We are being expoloited”, the residents,
who were standing in a queue to get drinking water from a source in
the center of Armavir, compalined on June 2. NT correspondent was
infomed in Armavir that the population of Armavir has been deprived of
drinking water for a week. On that day the patience of many residents
came to a point of exhaustion. The reason was that a few days ago
water, mainly dirty one, was supplied only to the center of the
city for an hour. Some Armavir residents told NT correspondent that
an intestinal disease has spread in the city as a result of it. In
response to an inquiry of Armavir citizens, the new director of the
Armavir antiepidemic center Kamsar Vatinian explained that he had
been recently appointed to this position and will speak about the
quality of water supplied later, after examining the issue. Technical
Director of Nor Akunk CJSC Andranik Engoyan gives the same answer
in case of any problem: “The company is doing construction work,
and the user must be patient.”

BARSEGH TUMANIAN’S SOLO CONCERT DEDICATED TO MEMORY OF MAY 3 PLANE CRASH VICTIMS TAKES PLACE WITHIN FRAMEWORK OF “NATIONAL GALLERY” FESTIVAL
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
June 05 2006
YEREVAN, JUNE 5, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. RA People’s Artist
Barsegh Tumanian’s solo concert dedicated to memory of the A-320
plane crash victims took place on June 3, within the framework of
the “National Gallery” second music festival. As Noyan Tapan was
informed by the Responsible for Public Relations of the festival,
it’s Barsegh Tumanian’s first solo concert after getting title of the
RA People’s Artist and the world-famous bass singer dedicates it to
memory of the May 3 plane crash victims. Barsegh Tumanian graduated
from the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory. He perfected himself in
the La Scala Opera Theater of Milan in 1982-1983, and in the Moscow
Conservatory in 1985. Since 1989 when Barsegh Tumanian performed in
the Gala-Concert dedicated to Armenian earthquake victims (Royal Opera
House, Covent Garden) he has become a desirable guest of world opera
stages. He performed on stages of best opera theaters and concert
halls, including London Wigmore Hall, Melbourn Opera, Munich Opera
Theater, Paris Opera Bastille, New York Metropolitan Opera, Amsterdam
Concertgebouw, etc. Barsegh Tumanian’s solo concerts in Washington,
Boston, Montreal and Toronto took place during the 2002-2003 series
of concerts.
The “National Gallery” second festival of classic music is being held
from April 20 to June 28.

ARMENIAN GIRL FROM ASTRAKHAN PASSES TO SEMI-FINAL OF EUROVISION-2006 CHILDREN’S CONTEST
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
June 05 2006
KRASNODAR, JUNE 5, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Selective tours
of the Eurovision-2006 children’s contest were held in 2006 in RF
regions. Armenian girl from Astrakhan Luara Hayrapetian from 150
participants of the national selective contest of child-singers
Eurovision-2006 passed to the semi-final. Five bids were sent to
the contest from Astrakhan region but the jury chose Luara and her
song “Red Hat.” According to the Yerkramas (Territory) newspaper
of Armenians of Russia, Luara Hayrapetian is only 8 years old, she
attends grammar school N 3. The girl has been engaged in singing when
she was 5. She has been attending children’s variety studio Vesnushki
of Viktoria cultural center of Astrakhangazprom LTD for already
three years. In spite of her young age Luara has repeatedly become a
winner at different international and Russian conests. She received
grand prix at the Rainbow (Raduga) international festival in 2003
in Volgograd, in the nomination “Little Miracle.” This year she has
also received grand prix in the Russian contest of variety song in
the city of Tuapse. Luara also registered victories in the region:
she recieves scholrarship of the government of Astrakhan region.

ARMENIANS PROTEST ETHIC KILLINGS IN MOSCOW
Pravda, Russia
June 5 2006
Protesters gather outside the Russian Embassy in Yerevan on
Monday, protesting against attacks on ethnic Armenians in Russia by
skinheads.The demonstration came just 10 days after a group of apparent
skinheads stabbed a teenager on a train outside of Moscow the sixth
such fatal attack on ethnic Armenians in or around Moscow this year.
Avetik Ishkhanian, head of the Helsinki Committee of Yerevan, said
protesters were calling on government authorities to condemn the
Moscow attacks.
Russia has seen a marked rise in xenophobia and hate crimes in recent
years, with a series of attacks on dark-skinned migrants, foreigners
and Jews. Rights groups say authorities do little or nothing to combat
the crimes, reports the AP.

‘MARATHON’ TALKS ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH
By Christopher Condon
FT
June 6 2006 03:00
The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan held two days of talks over
the disputed territory ofNagorno-Karabakh in what one diplomat called
“a marathon” of meetings.
Robert Kocharian, Armenia’s president, and Ilham Aliyev, president
of Azerbaijan, met at the Polish embassy in Bucharest on Sunday and
yesterday on the fringes of the Black Sea Forum, hosted by Romania.
US, Russian and French diplomats attended.
The talks were a coup for Traian Basescu, Romania’s president. Mr
Basescu had pushed for the event as a way of putting his country on
to the political map.
Brussels is keen to foster stability in the region now that Romania
and Bulgaria are set to join the European Union in January. “The
Black Sea and the EU are about to meet each other,” said a western
diplomat. “There is an apparent sudden recognition in the last six
months that the EU is moving into a region about which it has known
and cared little.”

PanARMENIAN.Net
Skinheads Killed 18 People since Beginning of 2006
02.06.2006 20:02 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ 107 people have suffered from assaults through
national hatred since the beginning of the year in Russia. 18 of them
were killed. 10 people were killed in Moscow, 38 were injured. 4
people were killed in Saint Petersburg, 20 were injured. Skinheads’
assaults were registered in over 15 regions of Russia. If earlier
skinheads assaulted the natives of Caucasus and Central Asia, now
representatives of youth subcultures and sexual minorities also fell
into the risk group,’ the edition writes.
The human rights activists think that some 50 thousand skinheads
commit outrages in Russia. `With the high level of xenophobia in
Russia the number of staunch right radicals is not so important, since
a small sparkle is enough to make passive xenophobes (about 60% of the
population) active,’ this is the data provided by Amnesty
International in the report on xenophobia in Russia, the newspaper
says.