Author: Kanayan Tamar

ARMENIAN COMMUNISTS REITERATE SUPPORT FOR MILITARY COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA

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April 12, 2012 | 12:35

YEREVAN.- Strengthening of the alliance between the armed forces of
Armenia and Russia within CSTO must be the focus of Armenia’s policy,
Communist Party says.

Head of the Armenian Communist Party Ruben Tovmasyan presented the
party’s election program on Thursday.

He believes Armenia’s Constitution should be completely reviewed and
a new one elaborated.

“We must put an end to corruption, bribery and clans. We need a law
to lift immunity of MPs. All should be equal before the law regardless
of their post,” he emphasized.

An army-nation union should be one of the main goals of the state. At
the same time, communists are confident of vital importance of
strengthening military cooperation with Russia to struggle against
influence of NATO’s expansion.

The Communist Party of Armenia is running for the parliament jointly
with the Progressive United Communist Party.

In the period of Armenia’s independence the party was presented in
the parliament in 1991-2003. Ruben Tovmasyan is first secretary of the
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia. The party’s mottos
are ‘Nation wins if Communists win’ and ‘Socialism, homeland, victory.’

The party’s proportional list includes 75 names.

“I BELIEVE AND HOPE THAT THE LURE OF CAPITALISM IS SINKING” – WORLD NEWS

San Francisco Luxury News

April 11 2012

The last film (Marseille, 1953), The Snows Kilimanjaro, has nothing
to do with the novel by Ernest Hemingway, but with sleep truncated
labor militancy in the cesspool of the systemic crisis we are facing
and centrifuging the old concept of class struggle . A film that
approaches the everyday, to the lives of ordinary people. Guédiguian,
whose work usually covers the territory of the social and political
criticism, is inspired by the poem by Victor Hugo pauvres Les gens
to dissect the terrible contradictions of the present, where the old
poor are rich compared with the new poor.

Question

. The philosopher Sidi M. Barkat said, “The class struggle has moved
within each worker.” I think the film illustrates this perfectly.

Response. Yes, the class struggle through the village itself, each
worker because capital has created the illusion that everyone was a
little capitalist, that all were bourgeois, an illusion that could be
internalized through small concrete things like the small shareholders,
access to property … That was the focus of the speech by Nicolas
Sarkozy five years ago when he won the elections: French build a
house, in which individual success is always possible and in which
we are all bourgeois. This is what finds the pair of main characters
in my film when they wonder what those young people who think about
what we were when we become? And they answer, that we are bourgeois,
we seem about bourgeoisie. Yet this couple has very little, has had
two important things: a dream and work. Today, the new generation
does not have a job or a dream.

P. What is it?

R. I think, I hope that the lure of capitalism is sinking and I
think there is a new generation, those 20 years, no longer believe
in the individual success, the need to do great masters of commerce
or political science, which makes the whole world as if there were
only rich and high tables, banks and big multinationals.

P. But the rich are getting richer and occupy almost all the power. In
France, for example, Sarkozy could win again.

R. No, I do not. At least that is what I want. And to advance, it is
sometimes necessary to take the wishes as reality. If Hollande passed
to the second round and Mélenchon up to 20% …

P. would be the revolution.

R. Yes, the revolution. This is my wish. I worked a lot with Jean-Luc
Mélenchon, we know from the European constitutional referendum of
2005, when he distanced himself from the official to vote socialist.

This idea of ??this film comes from that time. Wrote an article in
Le Monde on the working class not calling for the referendum. But he
would not use this term and found the title of the poem by Victor Hugo
pauvres Les gens, and so I called my article. I almost cried when I
reread it and I said I had to do a film about the love story of two
characters who have the same idea of ??the world, poor people today.

P. What about your next project?

R. I’ll make a film about the Armenian genocide. It’s an incredible
story. An epilogue would, at present, and a prologue in 1920, and
the action will run in the 1980â~@²s, when young people of the third
generation of the diaspora took up arms. In those years there were
over 150 attacks Armenian underground organizations. The film will be
held in Paris, Marseille and Beirut and Yerevan. But probably starting
in Berlin in 1921, when Soghomon Tehlirian, a young Armenian, shot
himself to Talaat Pasha, former Minister of Interior and one of those
responsible for genocide, after being sentenced to death in Turkey,
took refuge in Germany.

P. The French film is the last great European film industry. Why?

R. Why is beautifully preserved, because they have to produce
television movies, because there is a tax on every movie that is
passed in France, including the American cinema, which reverses in
French cinema. There is a national consensus on the film, a sacred
union, both right and left, they agree on the cultural exception.

KIM KARDASHIAN’S DEFENSE IN LAWSUIT: SHE’S ‘ARMENIAN AND HAIRY’

Fox News

April 11 2012

Kim Kardashian is calling herself “Armenian and hairy” in order to
get out of a lawsuit, The Sun reports.

The 31-year-old is being sued by beauty company Radiant, who claim
she has falsely endorsed a competitor’s hair removal product.

But the reality star has asked the court to dismiss her from the
lawsuit, saying her statement was an honest reflection of her opinion.

PHOTOS: Kim shows off hairless bod.

According to Radiant, Kim falsely claimed home laser hair-removal
TRIA works all over the body and has permanent results.

“Being Armenian and hairy, I thought [TRIA] was the perfect product”

– Kim Kardashian

However, the brand says it does neither and that Kim’s misleading
product endorsement has put their hair-remover no!no! at an unfair
disadvantage.

PHOTOS: Kim Kardashian through the years.

Reality star Kim, who’s now dating Kanye West, said she uses the
product all over her body and was only being honest.

“Being Armenian and hairy, I thought [TRIA] was the perfect product,”
she said.

Indeed.

KIM KARDASHIAN SWEARS IN COURT THAT’S SHE’S ‘ARMENIAN AND HAIRY

Entertainmentwise

April 11 2012

Find out why…

Kim Kardashian is hoping that a lawsuit will be dropped against her
because she is “Armenian and hairy”.

The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star has been in court to defend
herself after a hair removal company has sued her over her endorsement
of a rival product.

Kim, 31, has filed new legal documents in the ongoing legal battle,
according to TMZ, against a beauty company called Radiant, who have
accused the reality star of lying about the results of TRIA.

The bootylicious babe, who is well known for her groomed appearance,
became the face of TRIA – a home laser hair-removal system, and she
insisted that it works all over your body.

Radiant dispute this and believe that Kim’s involvement in the product
has put their rival product (no! no! hair) at an unfair disadvantage.

Under oath, Kim said: “Being Armenian and hairy, I thought [TRIA]
was the perfect product.”

The reality star has now asked the court to be dismissed from the
lawsuit.

THE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY IS ENGAGED IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF ARMENIA (RPA) PROPAGANDA
Gohar HAKOBYAN

April 10, 2012 17:23

Although Armen Ashotyan, an RPA minister, has ordered rectors not
to politicize colleges, the student unions of those were and remain
“the most Republicanized.”

One of the striking examples of that was the event organized in
Charles Aznavour Square in the framework of the RPA election campaign,
the leading actors of which were the RPA youth organization and
the Armenian State Pedagogical University (ASPU) student union. The
university students not only made statements on the stage, but also
enthusiastically flew the RPA flag. inquired from Volodya
Gasparyan, the head of the ASPU student union, whether the university
student union was a party unit to be engaged in the propaganda of a
certain party, whether it wasn’t banned by the law.

“But who said that we are engaged in propaganda in the premises of
the university, moreover, it isn’t written the Pedagogical University
on the poster, it is written the ASPU student union,” justified
my interlocutor. The student union belongs to the Armenian State
Pedagogical University and not to any party unit,

doesn’t it? “The Student union is a self-governed body and has the
right to participate in multifold events,” Volodya tried not to give
up. “Even in party-like events?” we didn’t yield. The head of the
student union said that they could cooperate on various programs
which didn’t contradict the student interests.

And if, for example, the ANC makes an offer to cooperate what will
they do? “We haven’t gotten any such offer yet, if there is one,
we will discuss it,” concluded Volodya Gasparyan.

TURKOLOGIST: AZERBAIJANI MILITARY FUNCTIONARIES LAUNDER MONEY AT MILITARY EQUIPMENT

arminfo
Wednesday, April 11, 19:44

I have got an impression that all the countries of the region and,
in particular, Azerbaijan, which has been purchasing a great amount of
marine armament, has been actively preparing to the war, Turkologist
Sarkis Asatryan said at today’s press-conference. He also linked
the purchase of the armament with laundering of money, especially
if we take into consideration a rather high level of corruption
in Azerbaijan.

“The military functionaries launder money in the military contracts
very often. They buy old military equipment but register it like a
new one and earn big money thanks to that. I would like to recall
that such cases have been already registered in Azerbaijan, when
old military equipment was purchased from Ukraine. The case ended
tragically and was followed with human losses”, – Asatryan said.

He also added that the West will not start a war against Iran until
it finds placement of the nuclear objects of Iran which are under the
ground. Only after that the battle actions are possible, otherwise
the war will be long-lasting and bring many victims.

‘ATMOSPHERE OF FEAR IN AVAN’: GAYANE ARUSTAMYAN’S OBSERVATIONS

Panorama.am
11/04/2012

“Fear realms in Avan; there is an atmosphere of fear there,” said
Gayane Arustamyan who runs at constituency No.1 in Yerevan and whom
the Armenian National Congress defends.

Being in touch with people during those days has proved that “people
are afraid, they report that they are Republican first then something
else turns out.”

“I don’t want to open too many secrets, because I know the methodology
of the Republican party. I know their Nazi treatment with the people,”
she said.

According to the observations the number of people refusing electoral
bribe has increased. “They disgust it, you see, they disgust it,”
Arustamyan added.

ADIBEKYAN: “ARF-D CAN LEND ITS PROGRAMME TO OTHER PARTIES, THE LANGUAGE IS CLEAR”

14:28 . 11/04

A high political culture has been formulated among the Armenian public,
this is the conclusion of the study carried out by Aharon Adibekyan
who is the head of Sociometer Sociological Centre.

The study was mainly carried out in Yerevan. Presently, 70% of the
Armenian voters is going to participate in the elections, but 41%
has already decided while 29% is still hesitating.

The sociologist has also said the public is in confusion from the
statements of the leaders of different political forces.

“We must cut the tongues of all those who are presenting frantic
ratings,” Adibekyan said adding that in case they lose they must
resign, while no such case has taken place.

Touching upon the election technologies the sociologist noted
especially ANC and Heritage Party cannot have an election technology.

OYP, RPA, PAP and ARF-D are the parties the aims of which are close
to reality.

To note, Adibekyan, who was also present at the presentation of ARF-D’s
programme has also said today that ARF-D claims to be a leader with
its programme. The party must change its political brand.

“The programme had 74 points, which reflected all the problems of our
country-the social, ethnographic, political and economic problems. I
didn’t find any flaw. And in that respect, ARF-D may lend its
programme to the other parties, as the language is clear, the ideas
are perceptible and understandable for all the layers. Usually all
the programmes presented are either very coarse or very complicated.

The party is perceived as a national party, a party of personnel,
which can become strength in difficult moments,” Adibekyan has said.

METSAMOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT AND ITS EMPLOYEES NEED SPECIAL ATTENTION, ARMENIA’S PRESIDENT SAYS

ARMENPRESS
APRIL 11, 2012
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, APRIL 11, ARMENPRESS: Metsamor is of crucial significance
for Armenia’s economy and the state is going to keep under limelight
the employees of the atomic power plant, President of Armenia, leader
of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Serzh Sargsyan said during
the visit to the town of Metsamor, Armavir region.

“Today we are proud of our nuclear power plant and we are proud that we
have such employees who in these complicated conditions are carrying
out such huge volume of work. We are grateful to you for your work,
your devotion,” he stressed, adding that the construction of new
energy unit is a priority for Armenia and the government has planned
to start the construction works by 2014.

“Both we and you understand what it means to put into operation 1000
megawatt power new energy unit. It may greatly promote our economy,”
the president stressed, adding that social programs are also intended
to be held in Metsamor.

“Of course you, the employees of the plant, may ask why your salaries
are not being raised, but I would like to say that we are planning
to do so. The plant is of special significance and the employees need
special attention as well,” Serzh Sargsyan convinced.

ARMENIAN GENOCIDE WALK TO BE HELD IN PHILADELPHIA

PanARMENIAN.Net
April 11, 2012 – 15:45 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – On Saturday, April 28, for the fifth consecutive
year, the Armenian Genocide Walk will take place in Philadelphia,
U.S., providing an opportunity for the entire Philadelphia community
to gather to commemorate the 97th anniversary of the Genocide,
and educate the public on Turkish denial of the atrocities committed
against the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire from 1915-18, The Armenian
Weekly reported.

Hundreds will gather at the Mher Statue by the Philadelphia Museum
of Art and walk through the streets of Philadelphia to rally and
bring exposure to the cause. At the conclusion of the walk, a program
will be held on the lawn of the Independence Hall Visitor’s Center
featuring keynote speaker, renowned Turkish scholar, Dr. Taner Akcam.

The program will also include participation by local dignitaries,
community leaders, and clergymen with performances by the Jampa Band
and Hamazkayin Meghri Dance Group.

With support from the Philadelphia Armenian Inter-Communal Committee,
the Philadelphia Armenian Genocide Walk is sponsored by youth
representatives from area churches and organizations who have worked
tirelessly to develop a meaningful and special opportunity for the
Philadelphia Armenian community – and nearby communities – to come
together to make an appeal for justice.

On April 24, Armenian Martyrs’ Day, the Philadelphia Armenian
Inter-Communal Committee will sponsor a Requiem Service, wreath-laying,
and cultural program at Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church,
101 Ashmead Road, Cheltenham, Pa., beginning at 7 p.m. The event is
free and open to the public. It is organized by all five Philadelphia
Armenian churches, and will feature students of the Armenian Sisters
Academy performing songs and recitations, as well as an address by
Armenian Genocide Walk co-chair Vicken Bazarbashian.