Author: Kanayan Tamar

Nothing threatens Armenia’s democratic stability, says PM

Kanayan Tamar

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 12:11, 6 May, 2020

YEREVAN, MAY 6, ARMENPRESS. Democratic stability is established in Armenia since May 2018, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in his remarks in the Parliament during the debate of the performance of the government’s 2019 action plan.

“The Republic of Armenia is a stable democratic state. You know that for many years authoritarian stability has been established in Armenia. And on the background of the authoritarian stability the democratic stability sometimes can leave an impression of instability. But I want to state that a democratic stability is established in the Republic of Armenia, people’s and democratic stability is established in the country, and nothing threatens the democratic stability of Armenia. I am honored to record that there is no political, criminal, mafia force in Armenia which will be able to undermine Armenia’s democratic stability or question the 2018 peaceful, people’s, Velvet Revolution”, the PM added.

Pashinyan said in all international democracy indices of 2019 Armenia recorded an impressive growth, moving from the backstage of the international democratic community to the forefront of the international democratic community.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

Planes fly past Mother Armenia statue ahead of Victory Day

Kanayan Tamar
Public Radio of Armenia
May 8 2020

Planes of the Armenian air force are seen flying past the statue of Mother Armenia during the rehearsal ahead of the Victory Day.

Armenia will mark May 9 with an air parade. On this day Armenia celebrates a triple holiday – Victory in World War Second, Liberation of Shushi and the anniversary of  establishment of Artsakh’s Defense Army.

Central Bank of Armenia: exchange rates and prices of precious metals – 06-05-20

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 17:37, 6 May, 2020

YEREVAN, 6 MAY, ARMENPRESS. The Central Bank of Armenia informs “Armenpress” that today, 6 May, USD exchange rate up by 1.97 drams to 481.97 drams. EUR exchange rate down by 5.13 drams to 519.80 drams. Russian Ruble exchange rate up by 0.12 drams to 6.48 drams. GBP exchange rate down by 0.25 drams to 596.49 drams.

The Central Bank has set the following prices for precious metals.

Gold price up by 312.90 drams to 26335.71 drams. Silver price down by 0.53 drams to 228.56 drams. Platinum price down by 13.53 drams to 11792.22 drams.

Armenia not to reopen schools and universities this year

Kanayan Tamar
Public Radio of Armenia
April 27 2020


Armenia will not reopen schools and universities by the end of the current academic year, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Arayik Harutyunyan informs.

Instead, the Ministry could consider reopening the educational establishments a week before September 1. Besides, additional classes could be organized on Saturdays in September and October.

The Minister said no exams will be held in the forth and ninth grades in general schools. High-school students will not take exams, either.

The final score will be summed up based on the results of the grades received before March 15 and during the first term.

In higher educational establishments, the form of exams will be decided by each institution in strict compliance with anti-epidemic norms.

Applicants will only take one exam. They can register from May 25 to June 15 and select the specialization and the educational establishment.

Entrance exams will be held in early July. No oral exams will be organized.

The Minister will provide more details on entrance exams on April 30 or May 1.

Armenia among world’s 10 countries with military burden of 4% or more of GDP

Kanayan Tamar
Panorama, Armenia
April 27 2020

Global military expenditure is estimated to have been $1,917 billion in 2019, the highest level since 1988, according to a new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

The total was 3.6% higher in real terms than in 2018 and 7.2% higher than in 2010, the Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2019 reveals.

Armenia’s military spending grew slightly last year to make up 4.9% of the gross domestic product (GDP), making it one of the 10 countries with a military burden of 4% or more of GDP in the world.

Armenia ranks sixth on the list, which also features Oman (8.8%), Saudi Arabia, (8%), Kuwait (5.6%), Israel (5.3%), Jordan (4.7%), Lebanon (4.2%), Algeria (6%), Azerbaijan (4%) and Pakistan (4%).

Of the 149 countries for which SIPRI has military burden data for 2019, 10 allocated 4% or more of their GDP to the military, 13 had a military burden of 3–3.9% of GDP, 24 had a military burden of 2–2.9%, 65 had a military burden of 1–1.9%, and 34 allocated less than 1.0% of their GDP to the military. Three countries do not have a military and therefore have no military burden: Costa Rica, Iceland and Panama, the report says.

The world’s top five military spenders include the US, China, India, Russia and Saudi Arabia.


On-Line Presentation on May 7 At 8:00 pm LA Time

Kanayan Tamar
Dear Friends and Compatriots, 

The ARPA Institute will have an on-line presentation using ZOOM by Dr. Michelle Tuson on: “The British Empire and the Armenian Genocide” on Thursday, May 7 at 8:00 pm. Please view the announcement below.


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If you do not have ZOOM on your phone/computer, you need to download it at:     It is free.


Please read about the ARPA Institute activities in our Newsletter in the following link: 

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Dr. Hakob Kiuliujian and: Dr. Lily

Karapetian’s lectures on new approaches to learning Armenian in the following connection.


A round-table discussion entitled “Development of high technologies and the competitiveness of the Armenian economy” was held at YSU, organized by ARPA Foundation, Alternative Center and YSU.

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Armenian Genocide victims are honored in Abkhazia

Kanayan Tamar
News.am, Armenia

17:51, 25.04.2020
                  

More than 50 people attended a memorial service at the Armenian Apostolic Church in Gagra on April 24, in memory of the Armenian Genocide victims, Levon Galustyan, a member of the Abkhazian parliament, told Sputnik Radio, Sputnik-Georgia reports.

“People had come with the call of their soul,” he added, in particular.

According to Galustyan, Armenian Genocide’s recognition is necessary so that such events never happen again. “There is hope in the heart of every Armenian and sound thinker that one day this historic event will be recognized in Turkey,” he said. “The Hamshen Armenians living in Abkhazia, including my family, are the direct descendants of the victims of the genocide in the Ottoman Empire.”

Music: Hayko, Artur Grigoryan, Harout Pamboukjian and others to perform at TOVMASYAN Charity Foundation’s pan-Armenian online concert

Kanayan Tamar
Panorama, Armenia

As reported earlier, TOVMASYAN Charity Foundation for the first time in the world has organized an unprecedented pan-Armenian interactive online charity concert program with the participation of more than 40 well-known Armenian stars through VR technologies.

A teaser released by the foundation reveals that Artak Tovmasyan, Artur Grigoryan, Harout Pamboukjian, Tata Simonyan, Arman Hovhannisyan, Armenchik, Razmik Amyan, Ara Martirosyan, Saro Tovmasyan, Erik Karapetyan, KarenSevak Band, Arame, Martin Mkrtchyan, Hripsime Hakobyan, Hayko, Sofi Mkheyan, Tatul Avoyan, Hayk Ghevondyan, Sona Shahgeldyan and other popular singers will perform during the concert.

The details on the complete list of the participants, official partners of the concert and ways of purchasing tickets are available in the video. 

The concert will be streaming live both from Yerevan Dvin Music Hall and Los Angeles on May 5, at 8:20pm Yerevan time and at 9:20am Los-Angeles time.

All proceeds from the concert will be used for Covid-19 anti-coronavirus programs in Armenia to purchase the necessary equipment and appropriate medications. 

Artists from Armenia will perform at Dvin Music Hall keeping some social distancing (#SocialDistancing), while those who will join from Los Angeles will perform online from home (#StayHome).

More information is available here https://all.me/tovmasyanfoundation

Read about the unique flashmob here 

Armenia health minister warns MPs against early restriction changes due to community transmission

Kanayan Tamar

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YEREVAN, APRIL 10, ARMENPRESS. Healthcare Minister Arsen Torosyan has warned lawmakers at the parliamentary committee on health and social affairs against any potential changes or lifting of the current nationwide restrictions only because of the decreasing daily new cases.

“We cannot say that the transmission is stopping and is going away 100%. In the past, we were having 50 cases from a single cluster, for example 50 workers of a large factor, now we are having 16, 20 or 30 cases but from 10 or 20 different clusters. Therefore, the transmission of the virus in itself has gone out of control, but our objective is to find each and every potential case and carry out the same actions like before – test, confirm, isolate the direct contacts, treat and discharge. We must do this as much as we have the power to do it. When we will all, nationwide, get exhausted, that is only when we will be able to lift some actions and we will leave only the testing and treating, we won’t do the isolation, because it will be meaningless during a much higher outbreak,” Torosyan said.

Torosyan warned the lawmakers that the slowing growth in new cases is not a sufficient reason to lift the lockdown. He cited the practice of other countries as well.

The number of COVID-19 cases in Armenia has reached 937, of which 149 have recovered and 12 have died.

Reporting by Anna Grigoryan

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan




CIVILNET.Russian Mobile Testing Labs Arrive in Armenia; Ter-Petrossian Extends His Support to the Government

Kanayan Tamar
CIVILNET.AM

April 8, 2020 20:57 
Russia has sent a mobile laboratory and specials to conduct COVID-19 testing. Nagorno-Karabakh’s Central Electoral Commission announces that the runoff election will go ahead on April 14. Former member of the National Assembly Levon Sargsyan will be extradited from Russia. And Armenia’s First president Levon Ter-Petrossian has written an article about the COVID-19 situation in the country.