Author: Karapet Navasardian

Sinanyan doesn’t rule out Diaspora’s assistance to Armenia to prevent coronavirus

Karapet Navasardian

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 16:39, 19 March, 2020

YEREVAN, MARCH 19, ARMENPRESS. Armenia’s High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs Zareh Sinanyan doesn’t rule out the Diaspora’s support to Armenia to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus in the country.

“This crisis is not only in Armenia, at this moment the whole world is in crisis. Our compatriots living abroad are also a victim of this crisis in some sense. This is not the moment that we can really expect that thousands of Diaspora-Armenians will gather and send money here. But I don’t rule out that, maybe this will happen, but at this moment people are engaged in their problems”, Sinanyan told reporters, asked whether the Diaspora will also donate money to the account number opened for battling the coronavirus in Armenia.

On March 16 Armenia declared a 30-day state of emergency to fight against the spread of the novel coronavirus. The state of emergency is effective until April 14, at 17:00. As of now, the total number of COVID-19 cases in the country is 122, one patient has recovered. An account number has been opened at the Central Treasury aimed at assisting the healthcare ministry to fight against COVID-19.

Edited and translated by Aneta Harutyunyan





Armenpress: Armenian celebrated retired athlete Shavarsh Karapetyan appointed advisor to Bashkortostan leader

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Armenian celebrated retired athlete Shavarsh Karapetyan appointed advisor to Bashkortostan leader

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YEREVAN, MARCH 21, ARMENPRESS. Shavarsh Karapetyan, 66, the Armenian retired athlete who became a household name after saving dozens of people from drowning in a 1976 accident in Yerevan, has been appointed to serve as Advisor to Radiy Khabirov, the Head of the Republic of Bashkortostan, a federal subject in Russia.

According to Russian media reports Karapetyan will advise Khabirov on sports affairs.

Shavarsh Karapetyan, Merited Master of Sports of the USSR, 11-time finswimming World Record-breaker, is better known for an incident which occurred on September 16, 1976. On that day, Karapetyan was jogging with his brother alongside the Yerevan Lake, when suddenly a trolleybus crashed into it.

The trolleybus lay at the bottom of the lake some 25 meters (80 ft) offshore at a depth of 10 meters (33 ft). Karapetyan swam to it and, despite conditions of almost zero visibility, due to the silt rising from the bottom, broke the back window with his legs. The trolleybus was overcrowded, it carried 92 passengers and Karapetyan knew he had little time, spending some 30 to 35 seconds for each person he saved.

Karapetyan managed to rescue 20 people (he picked up more, but 20 of them survived), but this ended his sports career: the combined effect of cold water and the multiple lacerations from glass shards, left him unconscious for 45 days. Subsequent sepsis, due to the presence of raw sewage in the lake water, and lung complications prevented him from continuing his sports career. But two years later he attempted a comeback, and won gold at USSR championships, before a final retirement.

The main belt asteroid 3027 Shavarsh, in 1978 discovered by Nikolai Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, was named after him.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan

Armenia reports three new coronavirus cases

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 20:41, 11 March, 2020

YEREVAN, MARCH 11, ARMENPRESS. Three new novel coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Armenia on March 11, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 4, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced Wednesday evening.

“Today, unfortunately, we have three new cases of the coronavirus”, Pashinyan said on social media. 

He said the patients are two Armenian nationals (aged 45 and 27) and one Italian national (51), who is employed in Armenia. He said all of them have recently arrived from the coronavirus-hit Italy.

Pashinyan said authorities are now tracing their contacts for quarantine. He said according to preliminary info the circle of direct contacts isn’t big.

Pashinyan said only one of the patients, an Armenian national, has developed pneumonia. The other two have no symptoms.

“Dear countrymen, please maintain calm and follow the healthcare ministry’s advises on preventive methods”, Pashinyan said.

The first COVID19 case in Armenia was reported on March 1. 

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan

Let’s go, let’s eat: Armenia featured in popular Russian travel show

Karapet Navasardian
Public Radio of Armenia

The Russian NTV has aired program about Armenia. John Warren, the host of the “Let’s go, let’s eat” travel show visits amazing winter Armenia.

He flies accross the country in a helicopter. John introduces viewers to Tatev Wings, the longest tramway in the world, visits the Hobbit Holes in the resort city of Dilijan and participates in the celebration of Trndez.

He also travels to Armenia’s second largest city of Gymri and а “cave village.”

John tastes delicious Armenian food, learns to cook Armenian ghapama and prepare sweet sujukh.

Armenpress: PM Pashinyan and his wife feel good, have no temperature

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PM Pashinyan and his wife feel good, have no temperature

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YEREVAN, MARCH 14, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan and his wife Anna Hakobyan feel well and have no temperature, Anna Hakobyan’s spokesperson Hasmik Harutyunyan told ARMENPRESS.

‘Both Anna Hakobyan and the Prime Minister were tested for coronavirus this morning. The results of the test will be known in the evening. Anna Hakobyan feels good, is in high mood and urges everyone not to be panic”, Harutyunyan said, adding that the PM also feels good. The couple has no symptoms of coronavirus.

Yesterday PM Pashinyan announced that he, together with his wife, have self-isolated.

“Today we saw a headline in the press that the Brazilian president’s test results were positive, and you know that on March 7 Anna had a meeting with the Brazilian First Lady, and a photo of them embracing was published. We arrived in Sevan for self-quarantine, and the first thing we did was check ourselves for fever, we didn’t have it. We checked again, and again we didn’t have fever. But then the Brazilian President officially refuted the report, he said that his test results were negative. However, in any case we will remain isolated, tomorrow morning we will be tested to be convinced that everything is all right, despite many professional medics telling us that the possibility [of infection] is very low”, the PM said.

Edited and translated by Tigran Sirekanyan

Armenia says will close border with Iran over virus

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Armenian Church commemorates the memory of 150 Patriarchs participating in the Ecumenical Council of Constantinople

Karapet Navasardian
Panorama, Armenia
Feb 22 2020
Society 13:19 22/02/2020 Armenia

The Armenian Apostolic Church commemorates today the 150 Pontiffs participating in the Ecumenical Council of Constantinople, Qahana.am reports. During different periods of history the Ecumenical Church has faced various problems of doctrinal, administrative and organizational nature, solutions to which have been provided during the Ecumenical Councils. One of such councils was the Second Ecumenical Council convened upon the order of the King Theodosios in Constantinople, in 381.

As the result of Arian disputes a new heresy had appeared, the head and supporter of which was Bishop Makedon of Constantinople, who denied the deity of the Holy Spirit. The Ecumenical Council convened in Constantinople on that special occasion, re-endorsed the definition of the Ecumenical Council of Nicaea and stack for the formulation “One deity, three persons”.

Accepting the Ecumenical Council, the Armenian Apostolic Church commemorates the memory of 150 Patriarchs participating in the Council.

Azerbaijan’s customs officers destroy Armenian souvenirs, cigarettes, alcoholic drinks

Karapet Navasardian
Panorama, Armenia
Feb 21 2020
Politics 11:40 21/02/2020Region

The relevant structures of the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan destroyed “prohibited items” on Thursday, Azerbaijani media reported.

According to the reports, a total of 263,029 pyrotechnic units, 47,322 pharmaceutical products of various names, 59 mobile phones and accessories, 5,077 liters of alcoholic drinks and 4,742 bottles of soft drinks, 5,255 kg of food and non-food products, 3,070 kg of washing agents and 2,167 kg of household items were destroyed by the country’s customs officers.

The destroyed products also included 324 souvenirs, 40 packs of cigarettes and 18 liters of various alcoholic drinks made in Armenia, due to which the goods were eliminated in the presence of media representatives and by a court ruling.