According to police reports, 11 cases of bodily injury have been revealed from October 4 to October 5.
5 cases of drug detection were recorded. Also, 5 cases of robbery, 1 vehicle seizing and intentionally property destroying cases were revealed.
From the previous crimes 2 cases of bodily injury and theft were revealed.
16 traffic accidents were registered in the republic over the past day, as a result of which one person was killed and 20 received injuries of different degrees.
YEREVAN – On September 19, Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakian met with the delegation of the Armenian Missionary Association of America led by Zaven Khanjian, Executive Director/CEO of the Association at the Artsakh Republic’s Permanent Representation Headquarters in Yerevan.
At the meeting a number of issues related to the implementation of various projects in Artsakh were discussed.
For the services provided to the Republic of Artsakh and on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Association, President Sahakyan handed Zaven Khanjian the Medal of Gratitude for the Association, expressing hope that the cooperation between the Armenian Missionary Association of America and Artsakh will maintain its positive dynamics.
AMAA Board of Directors President, Dr. Nazareth Darakjian stated, “That is great news that should make all Armenian Evangelicals proud! Artsakh is the fruit of great sacrifice contributed by Armenians all around the world and we are happy that the AMAA has shared in that sacrifice and deserved this honor today.”
AMAA Executive Director/CEO, Zaven Khanjian remarked, “The gracious recognition expressed by the heroic people of Artsakh through a medal of gratitude presented to the Armenian Missionary Association of America on its Centennial by President Bako Sahakyan humbles us and forges our collective resolve to continue our Christ centered decades long service in the Artsakh Republic.”
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On August 30-31, at the invitation of RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Igor Tsrnadak, will pay an official visit to Armenia.
As reported by the RA Foreign Ministry, the head of the foreign political department of Bosnia and Herzegovina will be received by the President of the Republic.
Igor Tsrnadak will meet with the Speaker of the RA National Assembly, Ara Babloyan.
Negotiations between the foreign ministers of Armenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are scheduled for August 30, which will be followed by a joint press conference of the ministers.
The foundation informed that CEO of DFA, accompanied by the President of the Armenian American Business Council Alec Baghdasaryan, has visited a number of technological companies during his last visit to U.S., including Career, QUETICO, Cater Truck.
Business-related issues and the idea to consider Armenia as an investment destination have been discussed with the executives of the companies.
“I am very confident that AABC and DFA will work productively to provide the proper handholding for each investor’s project lifecycle in Armenia. DFA’s functions in providing assistance for developing the business plans, marketing and aftercare support, are important components to provide investors with the required level of comfort to invest in Armenia,” Alec Baghdasaryan remarked.
La Nouvelle République du Centre Ouest vendredi 18 août 2017 Qui hébergera cette famille arménienne ? by Emmanuel TOURON Le collectif Urgence Niort lance un appel aux Niortais pour héberger une famille arménienne qui, cet après-midi, risque de se retrouver à la rue. Edgar a formulé une demande d'asile. Qui a été rejetée. Qui hébergera cette famille arménienne ? Il y a Edgar, 36 ans, professeur de tonnellerie, son épouse Angela, sage-femme, et leurs trois enfants âgés de 14, 10 et 8 ans. Le père de famille et le fils aîné ont quitté l'Arménie les premiers, en 2015. Ils ont été rejoints en France par Angela et leurs deux filles en avril 2016. Depuis, cette famille s'est battue pour obtenir le droit d'asile et des papiers. Peine perdue, toutes leurs demandes ont été rejetées les unes après les autres. L'Ofpra doit réexaminer la situation du père de famille mais il s'attend à faire l'objet, d'un jour à l'autre, d'une obligation de quitter le territoire français. " Ils seront à l'école et à la rue " Depuis début juillet, ils étaient hébergés par une militante de la cause des sans-papiers qui leur avait laissé son appartement. Mais le bail de la jeune femme touche à sa fin, elle doit rendre les clés de son logement ce vendredi après-midi. Edgar et sa famille doivent partir. Pour aller où ? « C'est tout le problème », n'en finit pas de s'insurger Delphine Druet, infatigable militante du collectif Urgence Niort qui se mobilise pour trouver le gîte et le couvert aux familles déboutées du droit d'asile. Pendant l'été, les militants comme elle sont restés mobilisés pour assister onze familles de sans-papiers (des ressortissants des pays de l'Est et une d'Iran). « Actuellement, neuf familles sont installées dans des logements prêtés par les municipalités de Niort, Magné, Bessines et Marigny. Quatre autres ont été prises en charge par des particuliers. Une de ces familles vient d'être régularisée, mais quatre autres (deux arméniennes, une russe et une kosovar) sont sous le coup d'une OQTF. » Parallèlement, deux familles sont logées de façon très provisoire chez des particuliers. Dont la famille d'Edgar qui doit libérer les lieux aujourd'hui. « On cherche partout un logement pour les accueillir en urgence », s'inquiète Delphine Druet qui multiplie les appels sur les réseaux sociaux en espérant que des Niortais seront sensibles à la situation. « L'idéal serait un logement sur Niort, car Edgar doit subir une opération chirurgicale lourde le 20 septembre. » S'ils sont encore à Niort à la rentrée, l'aîné retrouvera le collège Rabelais et ses deux soeurs l'école Ernest-Pérochon. « Et s'ils n'ont pas de logement, ils seront à l'école et à la rue... », soupire encore Delphine Druet. Pour entrer en contact avec le collectif : 07.81.38.55.85 (Gayané) ou urgenceniortfamillesA gmail.com
The Armenian men’s national basketball team suffered first defeat at the Group A in the Pre-Qualifiers of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 on Wednesday night.
As the National Olympic Committee of Armenia reports, Armenian lost to Bosnia and Herzegovina 85:98 in a match that took place in Sarajevo.
The Armenians ended the first quarter 23:23 in an equal struggle 23:23. However, the Bosnians took the advantage from the third quarter and finished the first half 52:44.
The Armenian team will face Slovakia in the next away match to take place on August 12.
The Armenian U16 girls’ basketball team won the Europe C division championship in Gibraltar defeating the Maltese team, 63:44, the National Olympic Committee of Armenia reports.
In the Europe C division championship semi-final Armenian U16 boys’ team defeated the Azerbaijani team, 88-76, and reached the final. At the final game our national team will compete with the winner of Andorra-Gibraltar meeting winner. The information is published on the Basketball Federation of Armenia’s facebook page. Georgy Shakhnazarov is acknowledged to be the most successful player, as he won 36 points.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli blogger who was sentenced to three years in prison in Azerbaijan for illegally entering Nagorno-Karabakh has asked to be extradited to Israel.
Alexander Lapshin, who also holds Russian and Ukrainian citizenship, appealed to Israel to extradite him from Azerbaijan, Haaretz reported, citing Lapshin’s attorney.
He said he did not want to be extradited to Russia because his family, including a young child, is in Israel and he wants to remain in contact with them.
Alexander Lapshin, 40, of Haifa, writes a Russian-language travel blog called Life Adventures that chronicles his trips to 122 countries, as well as his life in Israel.
He traveled twice to Nagorno-Karabakh, which is disputed territory with Armenia, and told a court in Azerbaijan earlier this month that he did not know there was an Azeri law against visiting there. He also insulted Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in his blog, which he told the court he regretted.
He was detained in Belarus last year and extradited to Azerbaijan in February.
Armenia is chess’s perennial overachiever, and Levon Aronian, its greatest player, is a swashbuckling throwback.
Three years later, shortly after the Soviet Union collapsed and Armenia became an independent nation, Levon Aronian, under Khachiyan’s tutelage, quit school to focus on chess full time. Now thirty-four, Aronian is ranked seventh in the world and has one of the highest ratings in chess history. Armenia, a nation of three million people, is the game’s perennial overachiever. Per capita, more players from Armenia have attained the coveted status of grandmaster than any other country, and Armenia has won men’s gold at three of the last six Chess Olympiads, the highest honor for a national team. Armenia’s President is also the head of the country’s chess association, and he has spearheaded a chess revolution: Armenia is now the only country where the game is a required part of the national curriculum, and its top players receive a state stipend. “For a small, landlocked country, chess is a particularly ingenious way, and effective way, of mobilizing both competitive spirit and sports competition and intellectual discipline, without the need for huge infrastructural resources and, of course, financial spending,” the Armenian-American writer Peter Balakian told me recently.
Aronian has won dozens of tournaments and global admiration, and he has become a bona-fide star in his native country—but he has yet to win chess’s greatest prize, the World Championship. He grew up, he told me, surrounded by reminders of the time “when your country used to be a strong country.” And the longer he shoulders the hopes of a nation desperate for homegrown success, the tougher it is becoming, it seems, to fulfill his immense potential.
I first saw Aronian play in 2015, at a “blitz,” a high-speed chess event in Berlin. Most leading chess players appear tightly wound at the board; Aronian looks like he’s waiting for an Old-Fashioned. Last summer, we met at a swanky new hotel in downtown Yerevan. As we ate lunch, people stared and took selfies. Aronian is raffish and charming, with unkempt hair and louder clothes than his chess-playing peers tend to favor. His chess skills were a route out of poverty. In the years following independence, blockades with Turkey and Azerbaijan, which still hold today, killed trade. Blackouts were common then; Aronian and Khachiyan would often practice by candlelight, up to six hours a day. Aronian loved the concept of sacrifice, and the idea that he could do anything so long as he achieved one goal: kill the king. He went out little, forfeiting friendships and the trappings of boyhood.
Aronian and Khachiyan began walking an hour and a half to play at chess clubs in Yerevan. Soon Aronian was winning tournaments, and making money on the side by beating businessmen in hotel lobbies. Small-time sponsors came and went; an airmail firm put in some cash—at one point, Aronian even travelled abroad with the mail. By the time he was thirteen, he was making enough to support his family. They needed the money, and Aronian turned that desperation into a strength, playing aggressively and unconventionally against his studious, better-dressed opponents. “I had to kick their ass,” Aronian told me. He added, “They look in your eyes and they understand that you are a barbarian, and the kids generally fear the ones who are savages.” He paused as we spoke to prevent a waitress from taking some half-finished plates. “There is still the barbarian in me—I won’t let my food be taken away.”
Aronian reached the level of grandmaster in 2000, when he was seventeen, but the Armenian Chess Federation repeatedly overlooked him in favor of older, more established players. After the A.C.F. froze him out of a tournament in India, his mother decided she had seen enough and uprooted the family to Berlin. Suddenly the Aronians were members of the seven million-strong spyurk(“spread”), the Armenian diaspora created mostly by the 1915 genocide. Unencumbered by Armenia’s infighting and isolation, Aronian flourished. He played over a hundred matches in his first year in Germany. In 2002, he won the Armenian Chess Championship and became World Junior Champion. He is now a rich man.
In n 1963, when Petrosian took on the Russian Mikhail Botvinnik for the World Championship, thousands camped out in Yerevan, watching each move relayed via telegraph to a giant demonstration board in the city’s Opera Square. Petrosian’s victory caused a “chess boom” in the country, Mikayel Andriasyan, the secretary-general of the A.C.F., told me. In recent years, when Armenia has won the Chess Olympiad, there have been similar celebrations. (Armenia did not compete at last year’s Olympiad, because it was staged in the Azerbaijani capital city, Baku: the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict remains unresolved.) Aronian played a key role in all of those victories: in 2004, Serzh Sargsyan, a former government defense minister, became the chief of the A.C.F., and he coaxed Aronian, who had climbed into the top hundred of the world rankings, back to the national team. (Four years later, Sargsyan was elected President of Armenia.)
By 2005, Aronian was ranked fifth in the world and became a national hero in Armenia. Stardom is a great honor, Aronian told me, but it’s double-edged. “Some people are cheering you up, while some people who are generally unhappy, they’re sharing their unhappiness,” he said. (Taxi drivers, he added, are particularly blunt with their criticism.) Aronian splits his time between Berlin and Yerevan, where he lives with his fiancée, Arianne Caoili, who has represented both the Philippines and Australia in the Women’s Chess Olympiad and also works as a consultant. Aronian has a small circle of friends and rarely goes out alone. Most days he listens to classical composers—“Bach for his spirituality and passion, Bruckner for his structure, Schubert for his serenity and firm structures, Mahler for the ways he goes from small to grandiose, Shostakovich for the gentle darkness”—and practices chess moves for hours. He still wears his emotions on his sleeve. He often loses chasing improbable wins when he should settle for a draw. And he takes losses badly, blaming anything from the venue to the general public. After a poor performance at a tournament in Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, in February, he told me that he lost because he was “not in the mood.”
“For me, Levon is more someone who needs things to flow,” the five-time world champion Vishy Anand told me. Wesley So, a Filipino-born U.S. player ranked second in the world, told me over e-mail that, when playing Aronian, “you never know if any move is straightforward and it’s best to assume it isn’t.” His swashbuckling manner recalls eccentric former greats like Bobby Fischer and Kasparov, and contrasts with the game’s contemporary masters, quiet geniuses who play with quantum precision. “You’re free to express yourself in the game of chess,” Aronian told me, comparing it to his beloved classical music. “You can play anything as long as you are determined to fight for the ideas you put in your moves.”
From 2012 to 2014, Aronian was often ranked second in the world; most people in chess expected him to challenge Norway’s Magnus Carlsen, the three-time, and current, world champion. But when Aronian performed badly at the 2014 Candidates Tournament, the event that chooses who will face off against the reigning world champion, it seemed to sparked a decline. Last year he performed erratically, falling well below the mark required to face Carlsen for the world title in New York last November. A month after the Candidates Tournament, I met up with Aronian at a hotel in London. He had just competed at the London Chess Classic, drawing six matches and losing two, placing eighth out of ten entrants. It was cold and gray, and Aronian was tired. “I know that I deserve, one day, to become world champion,” he said. The tournament in Sharjah, two months later, was another chance to rebound, but it didn’t go according to plan. “I haven’t yet achieved anything in my career,” he told me after that event, on the phone. He added, “I want to have a crushing victory somewhere. Something that will make me proud.”
“He is probably too emotional, and the sight of his dream being close makes his vision blurry,” the Dutch player Anish Giri, who is ranked twelfth in the world, told me. Maybe getting some distance from it has begun to help: in June, Aronian won the Norway Chess tournament in Stavanger, beating Carlsen with a dramatic sacrifice that, improbably, he had held back since 2003. “There’s no parallel in sport for that,” the writer and chess player Martin Pein told me, speaking of Aronian’s long-delayed stratagem. “What it demonstrates is someone who thinks incredibly deeply, who’s analyzed a lot of ideas in an almost profound way.”
The intervening period has been characteristically unpredictable for Aronian. He placed badly at a tournament in Leuven, in the Netherlands, before sweeping to victory at a German event with a round to spare. Last week he struggled at a competition in Geneva that comprises part of the qualifying criteria to join the game’s élite at next year’s Candidates Tournament. His next chance to shine is at the three-hundred-thousand-dollar-prize-fund Sinquefield Cup, which begins July 31st, in St. Louis. Aronian looks likely to make the Candidates cut, but it’s not guaranteed. Once again, he must sweat over his future.
Though many of the game’s current leaders are in their twenties, history suggests that Aronian is at an age where his powers should peak; Petrosian won the world title at thirty-three. Aronian wants to give Armenia another victory, and help it move on from past sorrows. “I feel that I’m owing my nation, my country, a lot for their love,” he told me. Failure, he believes, would not only be a personal but a national disappointment. “We’re always dreaming our days will come, and some justice will be delivered,” he said. “I feel that this is my duty.”