Author: Kanayan Tamar

LES INFORMATIONS DES MEDIAS SUR L’EXISTENCE D’UNE ” PYRAMIDE FINANCIERE ” AU SEIN DE LA POLICE AVEREES ?

Dans un communique, la Police a indique que le Service special
d’investigation mène une enquete s’agissant des activites d’un groupe ”
organise ” de hauts fonctionnaires de la Police qui seraient impliques
dans des detournements a grande echelle de biens immobiliers et des
moyens financiers. Les quotidiens rappellent que l’ex-chef de la
Police d’Erevan, Nersès Nazarian, qui vient d’etre limoge, aurait ete
l’un des principaux acteurs de ce groupe. Le nom du chef de la Police
de la region de Chirak serait egalement cite. Son licenciement ne
serait pas exclu non plus. Jamanak ecrit par ailleurs que suite au
renvoi de Nersès Nazarian, le reseau de supermarches ” Moskvichka
” appartenant a sa famille a ete ferme… Haykakan Jamanak fait
part de ses doutes quant a l’elucidation complète de l’affaire,
puisque seraient enjeu d’enormes moyens financiers et de policiers
haut places ayant rendu des ” services precieux ” aux autorites. /
Hayots Achkhar, Haykakan Jamanak, Jamanak

Extrait de la revue de presse de l’Ambassade de France en Armenie en
date du 30 avril 2013

mardi 7 mai 2013, Stephane ©armenews.com

VOTE EREVAN 2013 : LE PARTI AU POUVOIR REMPORTE LES ELECTIONS MUNICIPALES

Le Parti republicain au pouvoir en Armenie (RPA) a remporte une
victoire ecrasante lors des elections de dimanche au Conseil des sages
d’Erevan, donnant a sa tete de liste Taron Margaryan un autre mandat
de quatre ans en tant que maire.

La Commission electorale centrale a presente les donnees preliminaires
recues des 464 bureaux de vote a travers la capitale armenienne,
montrant que le parti republicain du President Serge Sarkissian a
remporte les elections avec 55,89 pour cent (235 512) des suffrages.

Seulement deux des six autres participants ont reussi a franchir la
barredes 6% et a entrer dans l’assemblee municipale de la ville. Le
Parti Armenie prospère du magnat Gagik Tsarukyan a obtenu 23,07 pour
cent des voix (97 189) et le bloc de l’opposition, Bonjour Erevan,
forme par des partisans du Parti de l’Heritage mene par Raffi
Hovannisian a termine en troisième position avec 8,48 pour cent
(35 732) des suffrages.

Le congrès national armenien aurait recu 4,39 pour cent des voix
(18499), la Federation Revolutionnaire Armenienne (FRA) 3,8 pour
cent des voix(15999), le parti Orinats Yerkir 3,73 pour cent (15733)
et la partie de la mission 0,64 pour cent des voix (2692).

mardi 7 mai 2013, Stephane ©armenews.com

Republican MP Samvel Alexanyan appears in polling station to solve
problems personally (video)

17:56 – 05.05.13

Tensed situation has been registered today at Malatia-Sebastia 8/09
polling station at about 2.00 pm.

To settle the problem Republican party MP Samvel Alexanyan personally
arrived on the site. He warned his representatives in the station that
if he is forced to come again because of such like incidents, `they
will not get rid of him.’

Ruzanna Grigoryan, observer from Trans International observing
organization, said they impeded her work and exerted pressure on her.
`It does not look like as you have been pressed,’ Alexanyan said.

The noise was raised after Karen Harutyunyan, Asbarez club reporter,
demanded from commission’s chairman to register the attempt of double
voting which was noticed by a PAP representative Tigran Ghumaryan who
said he saw the person trying to vote for a second time. Commission
head though did not fix it, saying no one has seen it except him.
Republican party’s trustee Mesrop Manukyan was claiming that it is a
provocation aimed at impeding election process.

Ruzanna Gevorgyan said the Republican party representatives did not
allow her to videotape and took her camera.

Profile: Tatev Abrahamyan

U.S. Chess Champs
May 2013

Title: Women’s Grandmaster

Rating: 2409

Residence: Glendale, California

Age: 25

Status: Accepted

Chess Highlights:

2011 and 2004 U.S. Women’s Championship Runner-Up; 2008 and 2005
U.S. Women’s Chess Championship Third Place; 2006 Pan-Am U18 (Perfect
Score)

Bio:

Tatev Abrahamyan started playing chess at 8 after her father took her
to the Chess Olympiad games in 1996. There she met Grandmaster Judit
Polgar, arguably the greatest woman player of all time and the only
woman in the tournament. “I was in complete awe,” Tatev said. “My
first thought was, ‘I want to be just like her.'” She was soon playing
competitively among the top players her age in Europe and has played
in the U.S. Women’s Chess Championship eight times.

But becoming a top chess player has not been easy. “The main problem
is balancing school with chess. Even though college is the number one
priority for me, I usually take time off to play in major events, like
this one.” When she is not studying or playing chess, she likes to
read, play tennis, travel, watch movies and hang out with friends.

Another big challege for Tatev was moving to the U.S. In fact, she
said: “It was the biggest change in my life, and it happened in a very
short period of time. Everything in my life changed in a matter of few
months. I had to give up everything I knew and start a new life. Even
though I have lived here for some time now, it was a very big
adjustment, and I think a continuous one.”

Tatev is a formidable competitor. At the 2010 U.S. Women’s
Championship she played her heart out to a fantastic 7/9 score, which
would usually be enough to net first place, but actually put her in a
tie for second place, half a point behind Irina Krush. Tatev’s strong
play and fighting qualities in 2010 earned her the 9 Queens/goddess
chess fighting spirit award, which was selected by former Women’s
World Champion, Alexandra Kosteniuk.

At the 2011 U.S. Women’s Championship, Tatev turned in a remarkable
performance, falling just short to Anna Zatonskih in the playoff
finals to finish in second place. Although she had a somewhat
disappointing performance last year (6th place overall), Tatev has
gained more than 70 USCF rating points since the event in 2012, and
she is poised to mae a deep run at this year’s Championship.

22 voters “misappropriate” a Yerevan resident’s flat

ARMINFO
Sunday, May 5, 19:50

22 voters “have misappropriated” the flat of Anush Chubaryan, a
resident of Yerevan. Chubaryan says that when she came to the polling
station to vote, she discovered that 22 unknown persons had been
registered in Nalbandyan Str., 104, which is Chubaryan’s address.

Another alarm of violation comes from ARF Dashnaktsutyun Campaign
Headquarters. The ARFD’s hotline has received a signal saying that two
days ago one of the residents of Davidashen administrative district
received the booklets of the incumbent mayor Taron Margaryan. The
booklets contained a “bonus”, which was a utility bill paid for the
citizen.

Agence France Presse
May 4, 2013 Saturday 10:59 PM GMT

PLO slams Israel over treatment of Palestinian Christians

JERUSALEM, May 04 2013

The Palestine Liberation Organisation denounced Israel for causing
“countless difficulties” for Palestinian Christians and Muslims to
reach their holy sites as Orthodox Christians held the “Holy Fire”
ceremony in Jerusalem Saturday on the eve of Orthodox Easter.

“It is not only that Israel has isolated our occupied capital from the
rest of our country – forcing our people to apply for special military
permits to access their families and holy places for religious
occasions – but even Palestinians from Jerusalem were beaten when
trying to reach the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,” said Hanna Amireh,
a member of the PLO Executive Committee and Head of the Presidential
Committee on Church Affairs.

Throngs of Orthodox Christians filled Jerusalem’s ancient Church of
the Holy Sepulchre and surrounding streets for the ceremony for which
thousands of Israeli police officers were deployed.

Police said tens of thousands of faithful gathered in the streets
around the site where Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried
and resurrected, causing huge delays at dozens of checkpoints.

“The Israeli forces turned a religious occasion into a battle camp
scenario,” said Amireh.

“This is part of Israel’s plan to turn Jerusalem into an exclusive Jewish city.

“Palestinian Christians and Muslims face countless difficulties in
order to reach their holy sites and conduct their celebrations, while
Jews from anywhere are allowed to freely pray at their holy places.

“It is time for the international community to take real action,” he added.

“What was witnessed in Jerusalem was an attempt to cancel a tradition
of 700 years.

“The Israeli government is doing everything possible in order to
achieve its goal of changing Jerusalem’s landscape, by building more
settlements, demolishing more Palestinian homes, revoking more IDs and
by attempting to prevent the normal celebration of Christian and
Muslim religious events…”

The PLO said Israeli police stopped a visit organised by Palestinian
Christian groups with foreign diplomats and Adnan Ghaleb al-Husayni,
the governor for Quds (Jerusalem) Governorate, as they tried to enter
the Old City of Jerusalem.

“Even praying has become an act of resistance for Palestinians,” said Amireh.

Believers hold that a divine fire from heaven ignites candles held by
the Greek Orthodox patriarch, in an annual rite dating back to the 4th
century AD symbolising the resurrection of Christ.

The event, the highlight of the Eastern Christian calendar, was
attended by pilgrims from around the world — predominantly Eastern
Europe — as well as Arab Israelis, all carrying unlit candles.

Greek Patriarch Theophilos III made his traditional grand entry at the
head of a procession of monks, chanters and dignitaries with red and
gold banners bearing icons.

After circling the shrine in the heart of the church three times, he
entered along with the Armenian Patriarch what Orthodox, Roman
Catholics and many other Christians believe is Jesus’s burial site,
emerging minutes later with a lit candle.

The holy flame was swiftly passed from candle to candle between
ecstatic believers, most of whom had waited for several hours for the
ceremony which filled the air with light and smoke.

Some pilgrims passed their hands through the fire, saying it does not burn them.

The Holy Fire was passed outside to the crowds who watched the
ceremony on huge screens, and was then taken to nearby Bethlehem’s
Church of the Nativity, where Jesus is believed to have been born, and
also flown out to Orthodox countries.

While the Church of the Sepulchre is one of Christianity’s holiest
sites, it is shared uneasily by six denominations — the Greek
Orthodox, Roman Catholics, Armenian Orthodox, Egyptian Copts, Syrian
Orthodox and Ethiopian Orthodox.

In the past, fist fights have broken out among monks from the
different denominations over perceived changes to the fragile status
quo hammered out down the centuries.

Roman Catholics in Jerusalem and Bethlehem celebrated Easter on March
31, according to the Gregorian calendar.

But this year other Catholics in the Holy Land, including those from
Nazareth, decided for the first time to mark Easter this Sunday under
the Orthodox calendar, in an act of ecumenical unity.

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Global Post
May 5 2013

Armenians vote in hotly-contested Yerevan mayor race

AFP

Armenians in the capital Yerevan voted Sunday in a mayoral election
that the country’s weakened opposition hopes would see them claw back
momentum from President Serzh Sarkisian reelection.

Several opposition parties are taking part in the vote for mayor of
Yerevan after they failed to put up candidates for the presidential
poll in February.

“I voted for… the political party that has a clear idea of the role
of the mayor’s office in the political life and system of government
in Armenia,” Sarkisian told journalists after casting his ballot.

Sarkisian, a shrewd former military officer in power since 2008, won
the presidential poll in the small country nestled in the Caucasus
mountains between Turkey and Iran with more than 58 percent of the
vote.

The February election was seen as an improvement on past polls, even
though it lacked genuine competition, after the vote that brought
Sarkisian to power in 2008 ended in clashes between police and
supporters of the defeated opposition candidate in which 10 people
died.

Opposition leaders have attempted to turn Sunday’s vote in Yerevan —
where over a third of Armenia’s roughly 3.2 million inhabitants live
— into a referendum on Sarkisian’s February victory, after a spate of
street protests fizzled out.

Analysts have said that Sarkisian’s Republican Party remained the
favourite to retain control over Yerevan and cautioned that the
opposition was trying to inflate the importance of Sunday’s polls.

Preliminary results are expected Monday.

mkh-del/zak/boc

ARF Proxy Investigating Votes of People Living in Moscow

17:16, May 5, 2013

ARF election proxy Gevorg Khoudinyan informed Hetq that a voter named
Razmik Khanamyan told him that someone else had voted for five people
registered at his address but who are now living in Moscow.

Khoudinyan said that he was scouring the voter rolls to verify the
information and that he had filed a formal complaint with local
election president Armen Simonyan.

Khoudinyan added that Simonyan told him that such an occurrence was
impossible given the number of reporters and monitors at the polling
station.

Simonyan argued that there wasn’t enough time to compare all those
coming in to vote with the registered names on the voter rolls and
warned Khoudinyan that criminal charges would be levied for
irresponsibly accusing others of such fraud.

Widespread election bribe distributed in Yerevan – opposition mayoral candidate

May 05, 2013 | 12:11

YEREVAN. – Armenia’s opposition Heritage Party Vice-Chairman,
Heritage-led `Barev, [Hello] Yerevan’ bloc’s capital city Yerevan
mayoral candidate, Armen Martirosyan cast his ballot in Sunday’s
Yerevan Council elections.

Incidentally, Martirosyan’s mother was a member of the commission at
the election precinct where the mayoral candidate voted.

During a briefing with news reporters, he said he voted for the
political force that has come to radically change Yerevan’s system of
governance.

`It is my wish that our citizens ultimately come out of this `sleep,’
just as they came out on February 18 [during the presidential
election], and vote for governance.

Widespread money was distributed [as election bribe] throughout the
city of Yerevan. This is the third election whose technology is as
follows: In the morning, they bring the people in groups [to the
election precincts], whoever needs to be brought, [and] the rest come
when they wish,’ Martirosyan said.

To note, the Yerevan Council elections kicked off Sunday at 8am, and
464 precincts opened for the voting.

Six political parties and one bloc are running in the vote. They are
the Republican Party of Armenia, Prosperous Armenia Party, Orinats
Yerkir (Rule of Law), Armenian National Congress Party (ANCP),
Arakelutyun (Mission) Party , ARF Dashnaktsutyun Party, and the
`Barev, [Hello] Yerevan’ bloc of parties.

The participating political forces are vying for 65 Council seats. The
Yerevan Council election is held with proportional – that is,
party – lists only.

Photo by Arsen Sargsyan/NEWS.am
News from Armenia – NEWS.am

PHILATELIE ARMENIENNE
Un bloc de trois timbres sur les récentes églises arméniennes émis par
la Poste arménienne – Photos

Le 4 avril, la Poste arménienne HayPost a procédé à l’émission d’un
bloc comprenant trois timbres sur les églises arméniennes construites
ces dernières années. Le premier timbre, d’une valeur de 160 drams
représente l’Eglise Sainte Trinité construite à Erévan en 2005. Le
deuxième, d’une valeur de 200 drams représente l’église des Saints
Anges de Sainte Etchmiadzine (2011) et le troisième, d’une valeur de
200 drams est dédié à l’église Sourp Hagop de Msnin (2002) de Gumri.
Le bloc de timbres dont le designer est Karen Lazarian est émis en 30
000 exemplaires.

Krikor Amirzayan

dimanche 5 mai 2013,
Krikor Amirzayan ©armenews.com