Author: Kalashian Nyrie

`Hrant Dink’s murder’ documentary performed in Paris

Panorama.am

12:34 16/01/2010

`Entrepot’ cinema of Paris performed `Hrant Dink’s’ murder
documentary, Turkish Hurriyet reported. Documentary’s producer Osman
Oqqan told that in 2004 he had a meeting with Hrant Dink and they had
an agreement to produce a joint film.

Osman’s wife’s death and Hrant Dink’s murder delayed the shooting of
the film forever. Once the film was to be called Armenia-Turkey, but
currently it’s called `Hrant Dink’s murder’. The producer said that
the film’s Yerevan and Istanbul performances would have positive
echoes.

RUSSIA URGES TURKEY AND ARMENIA TO CEMENT TIES
By Hasmik Lazarian

Reuters
Jan 14 2010
UK

YEREVAN, Jan 14 (Reuters) – Russia on Thursday urged Armenia and
Turkey to move ahead with an historic rapprochement and Yerevan said
it hoped Ankara was not blocking ratification of their deal to end
a century of hostility.

Turkey and Armenia, their relations haunted by the World War One mass
killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, agreed in October last year
to establish diplomatic ties and reopen their land border closed by
Ankara in 1993.

But the accords need parliamentary ratification, a step Turkey says
depends on Armenia making concessions in the festering conflict
with Turkish ally Azerbaijan over the breakaway mountain region of
Nagorno-Karabakh.

Armenia, Russia’s strategic and economic ally in the South Caucasus,
rejects the link, and won the backing of Russian Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov.

"To try and artificially link those two issues is, in my opinion,
not correct," Lavrov told reporters in Yerevan after meeting his
Armenian counterpart, Edward Nalbandian.

"We are interested in this relationship normalising. The sooner that
happens, the better for the whole region."

Rapprochement, backed by the West and Russia, would bring big economic
benefits to poor, landlocked Armenia, while Turkey would burnish its
credentials as a potential EU entry state and boost its clout in the
Caucasus, a region criss-crossed by pipelines carrying oil and gas
to the West.

But analysts say Turkey is worried over the angry backlash from
fellow Muslim ally Azerbaijan, with the two bogged down in protracted
negotiations over the price of Azeri gas supplies.

Azerbaijan is being courted by Russia and the West for its energy
reserves in the Caspian Sea, and is one of Europe’s main hopes to
supply gas for the planned Nabucco pipeline.

To soothe Azeri concerns, Turkey says it wants progress in talks
between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, where Christian
ethnic Armenians threw off Azeri rule with Armenian backing in the
early 1990s.

Turkey closed the frontier with Armenia in solidarity with Azerbaijan
during the war, which killed 30,000 people.

Armenia’s Nalbandian said: "I don’t want to have the impression,
and I think the international community also does not, that Turkey
is specially blocking ratification of the protocols."

"What’s a reasonable timeframe? It’s not dragging out and not creating
artificial barriers."

A trio of Russian, French and American mediators intensified
negotiations over Nagorno-Karabakh in 2009, but analysts say there
is little sign of concrete progress. (Writing by Matt Robinson in
Tbilisi; Editing by Matthew Jones)

INCORRECT TO LINK ARMENIA-TURKEY RECONCILIATION WITH KARABAKH PEACE PROCESS

news.am
Jan 14 2010
Armenia

It is incorrect to link Armenia-Turkey reconciliation with Karabakh
peace process, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov said at the Jan. 14 joint
press conference with his Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandian.

"These two processes are not interrelated. Russia backs Armenia-Turkey
rapprochement, however lay down of any artificial demands in this
context is wrong and improper," Lavrov said.

Asked whether Russia postpones its energy interests to
Nagorno-Karabakh’s people right for self-determination that was gained
by blood, Russian FM replied, "I’ll keep it short — no."

Lavrov also underlined that his visit to Armenia by no means bears any
relation to Turkish Premier’s arrival in Moscow. According to Russian
FM, arrangement on Moscow talks with Erdogan was recently reached,
whereas agreement on his visit to Armenia – a month ago.

MOMENT OF TRUTH HAS COME FOR YEREVAN AND NO LOBBY WILL EVER HELP IT AGAIN

news.az
Jan 14 2010
Azerbaijan

Zardusht Alizade "Erdogan is really interested in the resolution of
the Karabakh conflict and, certainly, it asked Russia to assist in
settling this problem.

I think some achievements are expected here and Moscow is preparing
Armenians for such a turn", said political scientist Zardusht Alizade.

Commenting on the statements by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin that the Armenian-Turkish relations should not be bound to the
Karabakh conflict, the political scientist noted that "Russia, Turkey
and other countries can have different opinions but it is Azerbaijan
that will say its last word. Anyway, everything should be coordinated
with Azerbaijan as the biggest and most influential country in the
Caucasus. Otherwise, any initiatives or new geopolitical combinations
will fail in the region without Azerbaijan".

"Therefore, we should be more active in the regional issues. Armenia’s
position remains changeless. This country is unable to reconcile
with the new realities in the region and it will do so that Russia
and the United States bind their policy to its ambitious policy. It
is spoilt and it considers that it will get away with everything. But
if support to it ends and the OSCE Minsk Group agrees on a different
position and it feels Azerbaijan’s strength, Armenia will be obliged
to take any decision. In this case, it will realize the reality and
change its position on this issue", he said.

"Armenia has recently understood that something is being prepared
against it. However, it is wrong for Armenia to think that Russia will
always support it. Moscow’s patience will once be exhausted as it does
not have to bind its national interests to the interests of Armenia.

The moment of truth has come for Yerevan and no Christian solidarity
would help it. Real processes are ongoing in the region and Armenia
should stop living with myths and understand the reality"

RUBEN TOROSYAN VS. ARMENIAN TV COMPANIES

A1Plus.am
15/01/10

Armenian National Commission on Television and Radio (HRAH) is
scheduled to consider the complaint of Ruben Torosyan, Chairman of
the Supreme Council Deputies Club on January 15.

In his application dated December 28, Ruben Torosyan claims that no TV
Company including Public TV has met the demands of Article 20 of the
RA Election Code. In particular, TV Stations didn’t detail the recent
parliamentary by-election under the majoritarian order at Constituency
10 and didn’t cover the candidates’ campaigns (see Articles 2 and 113).

Moreover, TV Companies breached Article 20 of EC and didn’t publicize
the price per a minute paid broadcast.

FINDINGS FROM L. GRIGORYAN AND CO-AUTHORS PROVIDE NEW INSIGHTS INTO PHYSICS

Science Letter
January 12, 2010

"In this work I continue the investigation of the space-time evolution
of the hadronization process on the basis of the semi-inclusive deep
inelastic scattering data on nuclei obtained by the HERMES experiment
at the Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY)," investigators in
Yerevan, Armenia report (see also Physics).

"Results of previous articles from our group, together with the
analysis performed in this work, show that a ratio of multiplicities
for the nucleus and deuterium (per nucleon), R-M(h), can be presented
in the form of a function of a single variable tau, which has the
physical meaning of the formation time of the hadron. This tau scaling
is a function of two variables: the energy of the virtual photon nu
and the fraction of that energy, z, carried by the final hadron,"
wrote L. Grigoryan and colleagues.

The researchers concluded: "Moreover, R-M(h) can be parametrized in
the form of a linear polynomial a(11)+tau a(12), where the parameters
a(11) and a(12) do not depend on nu and z."

Grigoryan and colleagues published their study in Physical Review C
(Space-time evolution of hadronization in cold nuclear matter.

Physical Review C, 2009;80(5):5209).

For additional information, contact L. Grigoryan, Yerevan Physics
Institute, Yerevan 375036, Armenia.

The publisher of the journal Physical Review C can be contacted
at: American Physical Society, One Physics Ellipse, College Pk,
MD 20740-3844, USA.

YEREVAN-BAKU RELATIONS MUST ‘RIPEN A LITTLE MORE’ BEFORE PROTOCOLS RATIFICATION: MERCAN

Tert.am
16:23 ~U 15.01.10

Head of a Turkish parliamentary committee has said that relations
between Armenia and Azerbaijan should "ripen a little more" prior to
debating the Armenian-Turkish Protocols in Turkey’s Grand National
Assembly, reports Turkish news agency Anadolu Ajansi.

"We are all eager to bring the Protocols to the committee and to
parliament, and we want to see relations normalize, but at this time
it would be in vain to debate the issue which is highly likely to
be revoked by the committee," said Murat Mercan, chair of Turkey’s
parliamentary foreign relations committee, on Friday.

"The Turkish people are very sensitive about rapprochement between
Azerbaijan and Armenia, as well as Azerbaijan’s rights. Efforts to
settle problems between [Baku and Yerevan] would help Turkey ratify
the Protocols," he added.

CONSTITUTIONAL COURT STILL CONTINUES HEARINGS ON PROTOCOLS

Aysor
Jan 12 2010
Armenia

Armenia’s Constitutional Court keeps on holding the hearings on
the Armenian-Turkish protocols to rule whether they conform to the
Armenian Constitution, Aysor’s correspondent reported.

There is still no information whether the Court will make a decision
today, while some perhaps possible details can be released after 4 p.m.

SENIOR INSPECTOR OF INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT OF RA POLICE ARABKIR UNIT ARRESTED

Noyan Tapan
Jan 12, 2010

YEREVAN, JANUARY 12, NOYAN TAPAN. Captain H. Simonian, a senior
inspector of the investigation department of Arabkir Unit of the RA
Police was arrested on January 11 on suspicion of having exceeded
his authority.

According to a press release of the RA Special Investigation
Service, investigators revealed that H. Simonian obviously exceeded
his authority by deliberately committing illegal actions based on
proceedings-related materials being prepared by RA Police Arabkir
Unit’s investigator D. Atoyan.

THOUSANDS PROTEST PROTOCOLS, URGE COURT TO REJECT DOCUMENTS

Asbarez
Jan 11th, 2010

YEREVAN-Thousands marched Monday to Armenia’s Constitutional Court
during a demonstration organized by the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation, urging the high court to invalidate the documents.

The Constitutional Court is scheduled to begin hearings on the
Armenia-Turkey protocols to rule whether they conform with the
Armenian Constitution, before they are submitted to the National
Assembly for ratification.

The key contentions are the preconditions inherent within the
documents, the approval of which will only benefit Turkey and severely
curtail Armenia’s ability to push forward a national agenda based on
national interests.

The ARF contends that the protocols, in their current format,
would hinder the process of garnering international recognition of
the Armenian Genocide, force Armenia into recognizing the current
Armenia-Turkey borders and bind the resolution of the Karabakh conflict
with the normalization process.

The demonstrators, bearing torches and the signs reading "No to the
Protocols" marched to the Constitutional Court building, where they
submitted a nine-page letter delineating their demands from the court.

Among the speakers were Chairman of the ARF Supreme Council of Armeina,
Armen Rustamian, member of the ARF parliamentary bloc Hrair Karapetian,
Armenian Deomcratic League (Ramkavar-Azatakan Party of Armenia)
representative Harutyun Arakelyan and Chairman of the New Times Party
Aram Karapetyan. The leaders of the Heritage Party attended the rally
as well.

Rustamian explained that the main objective of the demonstration and
the petition is to provide a way out of the protocols, saying that
the Constitutional Court had the right to express its objections to
the protocols.

He said that must recognize that the protocols, in their current
state, veer from main points of the Armenian Constitution. He added,
that if the Court did not heed the demonstrators’ call, then it will
be up to the parliament to reject the protocols.

Chairman of the ARF’s parliamentary bloc and a Bureau member Vahan
Hovanessian met with Constitutional Court Chairman Gagik Harutunian
late last month to discuss the hearings and present the party’s
concern.