Sponsorship Needed For Lilit Shakhkyan At Mari Izmirlyan Orphanage

SPONSORSHIP NEEDED FOR LILIT SHAKHKYAN AT MARI IZMIRLYAN ORPHANAGE

Mari Izmirlyan Orphanage is a state orphanage in Yerevan housing
approximately 100 children with special needs between the ages of
6 and 18. The Sponsorship Program is the primary mechanism through
which SOAR provides support to specific orphaned Armenian children.

Each week we highlight an orphaned Armenian child. This week, we
highlight Lilit Shakhkyan at Mari Izmirlyan Orphanage.

Name: Lilit Shakhkyan

Orphanage: Mari Izmirlyan Orphanage

Gender: Female

DOB: March 6, 2004

Father’s Name/Occupation: Aram Shakhkyan/Unknown

Mother’s Name/Occupation: Shushanik Kavalyan/Unknown

Siblings: None

Family History: Unknown

Health:

Lilit has a serious hearing disability. In 2011, SOAR contributed
to the costs of ear surgery for Lilit in which a Baha device was
implanted in her ear. Lilit currently attends a special school for
the hearing impaired.

Special interests, talents, hobbies, and future aspirations:

Lilit likes to be in the focus of attention. She likes to participate
in individual trainings, to play with constructive games, play
with dolls, and play with bright-colored toys. She does not like to
communicate with peers. She can compare objects and find similarities
and differences. Mostly she communicates with facial expressions
and behavior. Her future aspirations are to develop social skills,
to use voice for communication, and to pronounce sounds.

If you would like to sponsor Lilit, please contact George S.

Yacoubian, Jr., [email protected] or enroll through the
Sponsorship Program by selecting Lilit from Mari Izmirlyan.

Thank you in advance for your support!

The Society for Orphaned Armenian Relief (SOAR) is a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit organization dedicated to providing humanitarian relief to
orphaned Armenian children and adults. Working with a loyal donor
base and a trusted network of partners, SOAR distributes clothing,
educational supplies, medicine, and other essential resources to
orphaned Armenians throughout the world.

SOCIETY FOR ORPHANED ARMENIAN RELIEF (SOAR)

1060 First Avenue, Suite 400, King of Prussia, PA 19406

Office: 610.213.3452 Fax: 610.229.5168

Email: [email protected] Web:

www.soar-us.org

No Armenian Citizens Reported Among Moscow Subway Accident – Armenia

NO ARMENIAN CITIZENS REPORTED AMONG MOSCOW SUBWAY ACCIDENT – ARMENIAN EMBASSY

July 15, 2014 | 11:03

MOSCOW. – As of 11am Armenia time, no information has yet been received
on any Armenian citizens, or Armenians, who might have been affected
by the Moscow subway accident on Tuesday.

There are no data, as of yet, on any affected citizens, Armenian
Embassy in Russia Press Secretary Eduard Jambazyan told Armenian
News-NEWS.am.

Three subway cars have derailed in Moscow Subway. As a result, and
according to preliminary data, three people were killed and seventy
others were injured.

At present, the subway passengers are being evacuated.

News from Armenia – NEWS.am

Religious Cleansing – But Who Cares?

RELIGIOUS CLEANSING – BUT WHO CARES?

NewsMaker, Australia
July 14 2014

Monday, July 14th, 2014 – Australian Christians

Media Statement from Australian Christians:

Songs of peace and love fill western churches as smoke rises from
the rubble of eastern churches falling to jihadist ideologues. Iraq
is experiencing an emptying out of its Christian communities that
date back to the first centuries including Chaldean, Assyrian and
Armenian churches.But who cares?

Secular media seem unable or unwilling to grasp the religious cleansing
we are witnessing. Rather than lament and advocate for those Eastern
Christians and other minorities being religiously cleansed, there
appears to be a devotion to avoiding vilification of Muslim minorities
and in so doing, the plight of those being religiously cleansed from
their homelands is often overlooked.

While tongues are being silenced in western communities, Louis
Sako appointed in 2013 as the new Patriarch of Baghdad, broke with
the Church’s long-standing convention that speaking out about the
problems would only make them worse. He admonished his congregation
with these words: “I know your fears,” … But you have been here
for 2,000 years and are at the origin of this country, together with
the Muslims. Why is the little flock still afraid? Do not emigrate,
whatever the pressures.” Continuing, Sako said to The Sunday Telegraph:

“Christianity in the Middle East has always encouraged its people
to rely on the protection of the law, not the tribe,” “Right now,
the law here in Iraq is very weak.”

And it seems apparent, that tribalism is gaining strength.

Inadvertently perhaps we are supporting tribalism?

Iraqi Christians are crying for help to strengthen Iraqi law and order
in their beloved homeland. Opening up western borders to a flood of
Iraqi refugees as ‘the only solution’ is at odds with the pleas of
many Christian leaders across the Arab world urging them not to leave.

But to stay they will need our help, not our abandonment.

Sako said, unlike their Sunni, Shi’ite and Kurdish neighbors,
Christians have no militias to protect them.

An Erbil-based civil engineer put it this way: “When everything got
violent, the Shiites received help from Iran, the Sunnis had the Gulf,
and us? Well, we were left unprotected”. Aziz Emmanuel al-Zebari,
a Chaldean Catholic church official said: “In opening its doors
(to refugees), the U.S. is weakening those who are left behind.

Strengthening and supporting Iraqi Christians and all who support
the law over tribalism should be the goal. Abandoning villages to be
ransacked by ISIS as the Iraqi military recently did should not be
the standard of those who support religious and civil liberty.

The writing is on the wall. Prior to 2003 the Christian population
of Mosul numbered 130,000. Until early June 2014, there were 10,000.

After the ISIL took over the city last month, only 2,000 Christians
remain.That’s religious cleansing. As the Barnabas Fund reports:
‘atrocities by Islamic militants have been forcing Christians to flee
their homes in Iraq for many years. Christians have been targeted
with kidnappings and brutal killings to make it clear they are not
welcome.’They have also been subjected to financial oppression with
the reintroduction of the jizya – a tax on non-Muslims for living as
second class citizens in the Islamic state.

Iraq was once home to 135,000 Jews. Today less than ten Jews remain
in the entire country. Lest we forget.

Australian Christians seek to loose the tongue of the silent majority
to support the persecuted minorities wherever they may be. There
needs to be a shift from concern about Islamophobia to addressing the
real fears resulting in the religious cleansing of Iraq’s indigenous
population.

http://www.newsmaker.com.au/news/31185/religious-cleansing-but-who-cares#.U8SegNJOXIU

The Train Going From Yerevan To Moscow Gets Stuck In Sukhumi

THE TRAIN GOING FROM YEREVAN TO MOSCOW GETS STUCK IN SUKHUMI

Caucasus Times
July 10 2014

by Inal Abaza

Prague, 10 July, Caucasus Times. The discussion of the restoration
of transit via the railway line across [Georgia’s breakaway] Abkhazia
is gaining momentum. On 9 July, the issue was discussed by the Abkhaz
parliament. Vice speaker of the Abkhaz parliament, Vagarshak Kosyan,
and a group of deputies to the legislative body (Galust Trapizonyan,
Valeriy Mayromyan and Karapet Karagozyan) came forward with a proposal
to begin extensive public discussions regarding the possibility of
restoring the railway communication via Abkhazia.

Ethnic Armenian members of Abkhaz parliament raise railway issue

The statement, which they issued, said: “On the territory of South
Caucasus, processes of Eurasian integration continue to develop,
gathering speed. In May, Armenia declared its readiness to join the
Customs Union in the shortest possible time. We are sure that this
step is going to be beneficial for all member states of the Customs
Union. We whole-heartedly welcome Armenia’s decision, as consolidation
of the ‘South Caucasus vector’ of Eurasian integration is going to
increase Abkhazia’s chances for joining these integration structures
as a sovereign state. We believe that even now, Abkhazia can facilitate
processes of economic integration in the Caucasus and South Caucasus by
becoming an active participant in the processes. For this purpose, we
call to go back to discussing the issue of opening the Abkhaz-Georgian
section of the former Transcaucasus railway line. This section, which
is the shortest and cheapest, would allow Armenian export goods to
reach Russia by means of the optimal road. For its part, Russia would
get a stable transport corridor to the countiers of the Caucasus,
the Near East and the Middle East,” the statement further said.

The terminology, which the vice speaker of the Abkhaz parliament took
the liberty to use, was extremely interesting: “The Abkhaz-Georgian
section of the former Transcaucasus railway line”. First, the thing is
that the speaker not only failed to be politically correct, but he also
forgot that Armenia, whose interests he is lobbying, does not recognize
the independence of Abkhazia. Second, Georgia, via which the “road
of life” runs, will not even discuss the project in the Abkhaz format.

Abkhaz political forces “hold together” on railway issue

The railway project, which became topical in view of the early [24
August presidential] election in Abkhazia, sparked an ambiguous
reaction among political parties and movements of Abkhazia. In
particular, the Coordination Council of Political Parties and Public
Organizations of Abkhazia issued a special statement. Notwithstanding
the fact that the essence of the statement was embodied in the
terminology used by Vagarshak Kosyan, particularly, the fact of the
Georgian-Abkhaz section of the railway line being used, it was clear
that all political forces of Apsny (Abkhazia) hold together regarding
the given issue: If you need the railway, do recognize the independence
of Abkhazia and allocate funds.

However, due to the fact that Russia is the main lobbyist of the
project, political forces of the republic of Abkhazia refrain from
harsh pronouncements.

The statement by the Coordination Council of Political Parties and
Public Organizations of Abkhazia says: “As a result of the aggressive
policy pursued by Georgia, railway communication via Abkhazia has
been blocked for more than 20 years. On several occasions, Russian
and Abkhaz sides raised the issue of the restoration of transit
via the Abkhaz railway line. However, it remains unresolved up to
now. It is obvious that Georgia and its Western allies purposefully
hinder de-isolation of the [railway] communication of the South
Caucasus region and Armenia. The restoration of the transit railway
communication along our section of the former Transcaucasus railway
line will undoubtedly help to solve many economic and strategic
problems, which are posed to Russia and Abkhazia. Therefore, we support
Russia’s consistent efforts regarding the restoration of the railway
communication, considering that Abkhazia should participate in the
talks on the problem as a full-fledged side. In addition to this, we
would like to direct the attention of Abkhaz public figures and MPs of
the Abkhaz parliament to the fact that there is no Abkhaz-Georgian
line, as mentioned in the statement, as the term implies joint
property. There is an Abkhaz [railway] line, which is the property
of the republic of Abkhazia, which is not under Georgian jurisdiction.

Therefore, we urge all participants in public discussions to be more
careful about the terminology they use”.

The issue of the railway line operability is always accompanied with
scandals. It is first and foremost due to the fact that multi-billion
investments needed for the Abkhaz section of the railway line carry
risks for Abkhazia: It will be either too heavy a credit or a long-term
lease, which does not ensure profit for the republican budget. Even
today, Abkhazia owes the Russian Railways for restoring the railway
communication linking Abkhazia to the south of Russia.

Being in Moscow in June 2013, former Abkhaz prime minister Sergey
Shamba said that “Abkhazia is interested in the restoration of
Moscow-Sukhumi-Tbilisi railway communication and sooner or later,
it will accept the project”.

Railway of “strategic importance” for Russia, “threat” for Baku

Today, the size of investments to be made in the construction of
the Abkhaz-Georgian railway section amounts to 300m dollars. The
reconstruction of the Moscow-Sukhumi route cost the Russian Federation
about the same. About 70 per cent of the amount of workload in the
sphere was carried out due to specialists from Moscow, as well as
the delivery of equipment from the metropolitan area of Russia.

Economic expert at the Voice of America radio station Vardkes Artsruni
recently said that the “restoration of the Abkhaz-Georgian section
of the former Transcaucasus railway is of strategic importance for
Armenia and Russia. This line would make it possible for Russia to
restore stable communication traffic with the states of the Caucasus”.

This by no means plays into the hands of all Caucasus countries. Baku
was the main opponent of the “road of life” connecting Armenia and
Russia. In Baku, they perceived the “road of life” as a threat posed
to their national security, thinking that echelons of tanks will be
sent from Russia to Armenia.

[Translated from Russian]

"Silence" Interrupted Kim Ki-Duk’s Silence In Cinematography: Korean

“SILENCE” INTERRUPTED KIM KI-DUK’S SILENCE IN CINEMATOGRAPHY: KOREAN FILM DIRECTOR VISITS ARMENIA

18:01 14.07.2014

Alisa Gevorgyan
Public Radio of Armenia

He didn’t go to school, because only 50% of children in South Korea
attended school, when he was a child. He used to repair cars until
the age of 30, and watched the first film when he was 32. The
film “Silence” changed his life and interrupted his silence in
cinematography.

The best known South Korean film director of all times Kim Ki-duk is
in Yerevan at the invitation of the Golden Apricot 11th International
Film Festival. Retrospective screening of his films will take place
within the framework of the festival. During the Sunday opening
ceremony Kim Ki-duk was granted the Parajanov Thaler Award.

Kim began his career as a screenwriter and won the first prize in a
scenario contest held by Korean Film Council in 1995. In the following
year, Kim made his debut as a director with a low budget movie titled
Crocodile (1996).

In 2004, he received Best Director awards at two different film
festivals, for two different films. At the Berlin International Film
Festival, he was awarded for Samaritan Girl (2004), and at the Venice
Film Festival he won for 3-Iron (also 2004). In 2011, his documentary
film Arirang received an award for best film in the Un Certain Regard
category from the Cannes Film Festival.

In 2012, his film Pieta received the Golden Lion award at the Venice
Film Festival, the first Korean film to receive a “best film” honor
at one of the top three international film festivals – Venice, Berlin
and Cannes.

The director is visiting Armenia for the first time. He searched the
web to learn about Armenia before the visit, and spent three hours
this morning walking in the streets of Yerevan.

Kim Ki-duk recognizes no rules and laws in art. the only thing
he trusts is his feeling of fiction and style. He experiences new
emotions in Armenia. He’s surprised and grateful that his films are
known in a country he has just discovered.

The South Korean film director promised today to present his new film
in Yerevan and performed a Koran folk song to conclude the meeting
with Armenian art lovers.

http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/07/14/silence-interrupted-kim-ki-duks-silence-in-cinematography-korean-film-director-visits-armenia/

Civil Initiative "No To Robbery" Calls On Armenian Citizens To Take

CIVIL INITIATIVE “NO TO ROBBERY” CALLS ON ARMENIAN CITIZENS TO TAKE AN ACTIVE PART IN SIGNATURES COLLECTION AGAINST GROWTH OF ELECTRIC POWER TARIFFS

by Alexandr Avanesov

Monday, July 14, 16:30

Civil initiative “No to robbery” has called on Armenian citizens
to take an active part in signatures collection against growth of
electric power tariffs.

Activists of the movement have issued a statement saying that the
research held by Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) on the
expenditure predictions submitted by the energy system companies
and their obligations for 2014-2015, the discussion of the energy
tariffs, as a result of which a decision was adopted to raise tariffs,
as well as the explanation, why they need adopting such a decision,
are suspect. The citizens which have signed under the requirements,
demanded to fix reasonable tariffs.

The statement of the civil initiative consists of 8 points:

1. To set up a commission to investigate profit and expenditure of
the energy companies, including the formation of the deficit in an
amount 17,9 billion AMD.

2. To involve specialists of the civil initiative “No to robbery”
and members of the Armenian parliament in the commission as its
fully-fledged members.

3. To provide the needed level of transparency of the work of the
commission.

4. To give such authorities to the Commission which would let it
implement the above-mentioned functions.

5. Not to raise electric power tariffs until ending of the work of
the commission.

6. After ending of the work of the Commission, to discuss in the PSRC
a problem of decrease of the electric power tariff.

7. To revise the regulating sector of legal norms.

8. To create conditions for using of alternative energy sources,
offering tax privileges to the companies generating them, which will
result in dropping of the electric power tariffs.

http://www.arminfo.am/index.cfm?objectid=B4320BC0-0B52-11E4-AC370EB7C0D21663

Life In Kessab Slightly Improves, But There Is Still Long Way To Pas

LIFE IN KESSAB SLIGHTLY IMPROVES, BUT THERE IS STILL LONG WAY TO PASS

[ Part 2.2: “Attached Text” ]

18:44, 15 July, 2014

YEREVAN, JULY 15, ARMENPRESS. Life in Kessab is gradually improving,
the infrastructures work better, but there is still quite a long
way to pass. The Kessab-Armenian Karo Manchikian stated this in a
conversation with Armenpress. He added that the aids provided to
Kessab are by sequence distributed among the residents. According
to Karo Manchikian, already two subsidies were distributed among
the Kessab residents, besides, the Syrian Red Crescent organization
delivers various types of products to the residents. “Water
cisterns were bought by the provided money, which had been stolen,
they also bought a pump to drug the plants.

The residents will use it passing to each other,” Manchikian
noted.

He added that the Syrian authorities provided tractors envisaged for
drugging the plants until winter.

Karo Manchikian also informed that in the near future the Kessab
residents will be provided with other aids.

ere-is-still-long-way-to-pass.html

http://armenpress.am/eng/news/769528/life-in-kessab-slightly-improves-but-th

Seiran Ohanyan On Azerbaijani Reconnaissance-In-Force And Serzh Sarg

SEIRAN OHANYAN ON AZERBAIJANI RECONNAISSANCE-IN-FORCE AND SERZH SARGSYAN’S STATEMENT

Lragir.am
Country – 15 July 2014, 17:11

“Clearly, there was a reconnaissance-in-force,” the minister of defense
stated on July 15, commenting on the reconnaissance-in-force by the
Azerbaijani side.

In answer to the circulated rumors that the arrested may not be
an Azerbaijani commando, the minister said professionals must make
evaluations.

“I think the information that is in place describes the reality – there
was a reconnaissance-in-force. In addition, the leadership of the army
of the enemy uses criminal groups for reconnaissance-in-force who are
acquainted with the region. In other words, according to our laws, a
crime was committed, and the NKR law enforcement bodies have brought
up a criminal case. They will be held accountable in accordance with
our laws and international norms,” Seiran Ohanyan said.

Seiran Ohanyan dismissed media reports that the arrested Azerbaijani
commando member was in trade for three years. According to the
minister, they do not have such information. “Unfortunately, a lot
of people, and unfortunately among them are our brothers-in-arms,
are trying to make assessments, saying that service is not organized
satisfactorily. Those who were at different sections of our border
line, particularly in Karvachar where the NKR Defense Army troops are
on duty, the mountains and forests do not allow covering the territory
fully. There have always been such cases, and on the contrary, we
must glorify our soldiers who were able to detect, render harmless,
destroy one and capture two,” Seiran Ohanyan said.

In regard to escalation at the line of contact, the minister said
dialogue and confidence building are the only way that leads to a
peace settlement of the NK issue. “A war was imposed on us and the
people of Artsakh achieved success and won. Now they are trying to
affect the process of negotiations through escalation to achieve
unilateral success, unilateral compromise,” he underlined. Commenting
on the disappearance of the young man of Karvachar, the minister said
the members of the commando may be related to his disappearance.

Seiran Ohanyan said the investigation will find this out.

The minister of defense also commented on Serzh Sargsyan’s statement
that sale of Russian weapon to Azerbaijan causes concern. “This worries
us but not everything that we do in the sphere of defense cooperation
can be made known to the public. Our defense cooperation with Russia
is at a higher level than their cooperation with Azerbaijan,” Seiran
Ohanyan said.

– See more at:

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Armenie-Turquie : La Reaction Prudente A Erevan Alors Qu’un Journal

ARMENIE-TURQUIE : LA REACTION PRUDENTE A EREVAN ALORS QU’UN JOURNAL TURC S’INTERROGE SUR L’EVENTUELLE OUVERTURE DE LA FRONTIERE FERMEE

ARMENIE

La semaine dernière, le journal turc “Taraf” a publie un article
affirmant que l’actuel premier ministre de la Turquie, candidat a la
presidentielle, Recep Tayyip Erdogan a ordonne le debut des preparatifs
pour l’ouverture de la frontière armeno-turque en Septembre. Le journal
estime cette etape comme un mouvement pre-electoral et conclut que
M. Erdogan veut ainsi obtenir le soutien de la communaute occidentale,
qui exige l’ouverture de la frontière.

La nouvelle a suscite des commentaires interessants dans les medias
armeniens. Redacteur en chef de la section armenienne du journal
Agos basee en Turquie Bagrat Estukyan, par exemple, estime que cette
information a ete publiee dans le but de conduire Erdogan dans un
corner avant l’election presidentielle qui devrait etre tenue en
Turquie en Août. Il considère que l’information comme “farfelue”
et dit qu’en reponse le ministère turc des Affaires etrangères a nie
l’information du journal Taraf.

En Armenie, la reaction a ete plus prudente face a cette information.

Des references ont ete faites aux declarations par le ministre turc
des Affaires etrangères Ahmet Davutoglu, qui a maintes fois mis en
avant les conditions pour l’ouverture de la frontière avec l’Armenie –
un retrait armenien d’au moins un ou deux districts du Karabagh.

Cependant, la partie armenienne et les mediateurs occidentaux ont
declare que la normalisation armeno-turque ne doit pas etre liee au
problème du Karabagh.

Vladimir Yakounine, directeur de chemins de fer russes, une societe
qui est proprietaire de la concession des chemins de fer armeniens,
a declare lors d’une recente visite a Erevan que la section du
chemin de fer Kars-Gyumri est entièrement renovee et prete pour une
solution politique lors de l’ouverture de la frontière . Cette demarche
s’inscrit complètement dans le regime que certains analystes armeniens
croient que la Russie, la Turquie et l’Azerbaïdjan tentent de realiser.

L’essence de ce système est que la Russie va >
l’Armenie de laisser introduire dans le Karabagh des troupes de
maintien de la paix de la Russie elle-meme ou de l’Organisation du
Traite de securite collective (OTSC) dirigee par la Russie et de
les faire stationner afin qu’une partie de ces zones passent sous
contrôle azerbaïdjanais et d’ainsi attirer l’Azerbaïdjan dans l’Union
economique eurasienne et de donner a la Turquie une raison d’ouvrir
la frontière avec l’Armenie. Cela peut egalement dejouer les plans
de communications de transit via l’Armenie si l’Iran et l’Occident
acceptent de retablir leur cooperation.

Mais le ministre armenien de la Defense Seyran Ohanian semble avoir
rejete categoriquement le plan de la mise en place des forces russes ou
dirigees par la Russie au Karabakh a Erevan la semaine dernière lors
d’un forum de maintien de la paix organise par le secretaire general
de l’OTSC Nikolai Bordyuzha. Les experts russes parlent ouvertement
de la possibilite par la Russie d’introduire ses troupes dans la
zone du conflit armeno-azerbaïdjanais, mais Ohanian a declare que
les Armeniens depuis de nombreuses annees ont reussi a maintenir la
paix et que l’armee armenienne est capable de continuer a maintenir
la paix, sans l’aide de soldats de la paix internationaux.

Il est difficile de dire si la frontière armeno-turque sera ouverte
après, surtout qu’il y a des offres de plus insistantes de l’Iran de
transformer le Nakhitchevan, une enclave azerbaïdjanaise situee au
sud-ouest de l’Armenie, en une zone de libre-echange, ce qui pourrait
simplifier considerablement la communication entre le golfe Persique et
la mer Noire a travers l’Armenie, et de ce fait la liaison des chemins
de fer de la Turquie et de l’Armenie serait complètement vide de sens.

Vardan Oskanian, qui a servi comme ministre armenien des Affaires
etrangères pendant la presidence de Robert Kotcharian (1998-2008),
a estime que le blocus turc, en dehors de ne pas reussir a entraver
le developpement de l’Armenie, a davantage stimule la croissance
de la petite production technologique dans le pays. En 2009, le
gouvernement de Serge Sarkissian a essaye de negocier avec la Turquie
et les protocoles diplomatiques, meme signes ne contenaient meme pas
de conditions prealables sur le Karabagh. Mais ces protocoles n’ont
pas encore ete ratifies par la Turquie, alors qu’Ankara utilise encore
le langage des conditions prealables pour parler a Erevan.

Le president Sarkissian a officiellement invite le prochain president
de la Turquie a Erevan le 24 Avril 2015 le jour du 100e anniversaire
du genocide armenien, pour commemorer les 1,5 million de victimes des
massacres de 1915. Avant cela beaucoup de choses pourraient changer
dans la region – la creation d’un Etat kurde n’est pas exclue. Les
Kurdes considèrent certains des territoires dans la Turquie moderne
comme leur terre natale et aimerait egalement les voir comme une
partie de leur etat.

Par Naira Hayrumyan

ArmeniaNow

mardi 15 juillet 2014, Stephane (c)armenews.com

Nagorny Karabakh Serviceman Dies Of Gunshot From Azerbaijan – Stepan

NAGORNY KARABAKH SERVICEMAN DIES OF GUNSHOT FROM AZERBAIJAN – STEPANKERT

Interfax, Russia
July 11 2014

YEREVAN. July 11

A serviceman of the self-proclaimed Nagorny Karabakh Republic died in
the afternoon on Friday as a result of a gunshot fired from Azerbaijan.

“Following the gunshot of the enemy, serviceman Movses Gasparian,
20, sustained a deadly gunshot wound at 3 p.m. on July 11 at the
battle position in the southeastern direction of the contact line of
the Karabakh and Azerbaijani troops,” the Nagorny Karabakh Defense
Ministry press office told Interfax.

Nagorny Karabakh servicemen impeded a sabotage and intelligence
attempt to enter from Azerbaijan on July 9.

“The enemy attempted to carry out sabotage and intelligence entry at
the border between Nagorny Karabakh and Armenia in the direction of
Karvachar [near the Tavush district in northeastern Armenia]. As a
result of prompt measures taken, leading subdivisions of the Nagorny
Karabakh defense army stopped the movement of the sabotage group. Some
members of the Azerbaijani sabotage and intelligence group were
detained, the rest managed to escape,” the self-proclaimed Nagorny
Karabakh Defense Ministry press office told Interfax.

The Nagorny Karabakh Defense Ministry released on Friday a picture
of Guliyev Shakhbaz Dzhalolglu, 1968, and arms seized.