Author: Nahapetian Samvel

Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am, Armenia
Aug 29 2009

Hayrikyan: Georgia did right withdrawing from CIS

16:14 / 08/29/2009Withdrawing from CIS Georgia did right, as it is
pointless to constitute a part of `artificial and fake’ structure,
that should not be taken seriously, Paruyr Hayrikyan, Chairman of
National Self-Determination Union stated August 29 press conference.

`CIS is a stricture of Russia’s imperialistic interests, emphasizing
its dominance in the region while having no moral and political
potential’, Hayrikyan said.

He also touched upon the recent issues on Armenian-Georgian border,
noting these incidents were predictable, due to the Russian-Georgian
conflict amid the Armenian-Russian friendly relations. `One should
have expected that Georgians would be aggressive towards
Armenia. Luckily, they still control themselves’.

According to him the problems also arose as the issues with borders
are not clarified yet. Demarcation of Armenian-Georgian border is on
the agenda and talks on this issue pending.

AzerNews Weekly, Azerbaijan
Aug 25 2009

Russian researcher to publish trilogy on Garabagh conflict

25-08-2009 23:23:20

A prominent Russian journalist and researcher plans to publish a
trilogy soon dedicated to the history of the Armenia-Azerbaijan
conflict over Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh.
Yuri Pompeyev`s books will reflect Armenian nationalism and facts
concerning the policy of destruction pursued in the occupied
Azerbaijani territories. The author proves with historic facts that
Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh, an Azerbaijani region occupied by Armenia
since the early 1990s, belongs to Azerbaijan.
Pompeyev told the Baku-based Lider TV channel that the publication of
the trilogy is being facilitated by the youth forum of the
Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) and supported by the Heydar
Aliyev Foundation.
“These books will back up with facts that Armenian nationalism has
caused dire tragedies in the history of the region,“ Pompeyev
said. “This trilogy proves that, until real hosts return to Upper
Garabagh, prosperity of the region is impossible.“
Pompeyev, an academician of Russia`s Natural Sciences Academy, is one
of the first journalists in the entire former Soviet Union covering
the January 20 tragedy and the Khojaly massacre perpetrated by
Armenians in Upper Garabagh in 1992.
Hundreds of civilians were crushed or injured by the Soviet troops in
Baku on January 20, 1990 on an order from the USSR leadership that was
trying to maintain the Communist regime in Azerbaijan and strangle the
national liberation movement. On February 25-26, 1992, thousands of
Azerbaijani civilians were slain by Armenian forces in the Khojaly
district.
Armenia and Azerbaijan waged a war over the mountainous region of
Upper Garabagh in the early 1990s, which claimed some 30,000 lives and
displaced about one million Azerbaijanis. Armenia has been occupying
over 20 percent of Azerbaijan`s internationally-recognized territory
since then. The ceasefire accord was signed in 1994, but peace talks,
mediated by the U.S., Russia and France through the OSCE Minsk Group,
have been fruitless so far, and sporadic clashes on the frontline
continue.

ARMENIAN AND KURDISH ADS ON TURKISH TV

Aysor
Aug 27 2009
Armenia

To increase the income gained from the ads, the Turkish State TV
(TRT) undertook new steps. According to the Turkish daily "Sabah",
an ad in Kurdish will be broadcast on TRT 6, as "Veritas Medya",
managing the ad business in the Turkish TRT, considers it necessary.

The ads in different languages and dialects are allowed to be on
TRT since 1 January. According to this, Kurdish, Armenian, Arabic
and ads in other languages are possible to be broadcast only when a
corresponding program in that language is on.

AZERBAIJAN CONFIRMED HIS PARTICIPATION

Aysor
Aug 28 2009
Armenia

Today the Azerbaijan’s Judo Federation has officially confirmed his
participation in the European youth league taking place in Armenia,
Yerevan. According the final application the Azerbaijani sport
delegation will consist of 5 sportsmen. Ilgar Mushkiev will present
the 55 w/c, Rasim Asadullaev will present 60 w/c, Fagan Eminoghlu in
66 w/c, Ramin Gurbanov 81 w/c, Elmar Gasimov 100 w/c. The team will be
accompanied with doctors Camil Iskandarov and Azer Mammadov, trainers
Farhad Mammadov, Azer Shikahliev, Aghayar Akhudzadan and trainer
Valeh Maharamov, the head of the delegation is Elshad Alaqbarov. In
the application there is mentioned that two more journalists will
arrive to Yerevan.

"During the meeting that took place in Holland the president of
Azerbaijani federation of Judo spoke about arriving to Yerevan. Today
already we have received the confirmation about their arrival. The
passions in sport especially in Judo are specifically sportive. And
we will receive our guests at a high level. And their security is
guaranteed by the corresponding institutions of our country", –
says Aleqsan Avetisyan the president of RA Judo Federation in the
press release.

NIKOL PASHINYAN’S IMPRISONMENT TERM EXTENDED TILL NOVEMBER 1

PanARMENIAN.Net
28.08.2009 11:56 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ ANC activist Nikol Pashinyan, Editor-in-Chief of
opposition-run "Haykakan Zhamanak" newspaper, will remain in prison
till November 1. Decision to extend activist’s prison term was made
yesterday by the General Jurisdiction Court of Nork-Marash district.

Pashinhyan was charged with crimes prescribed by Section 1, Article
316 (Violence against a representative of authorities) and Section
1, Article 225 (Mass disorder) of RA Criminal Code. On October 23,
2007 Pashinyan used violence against police officers, without causing
health damage, General Prosecutor’s Office says in a release.

On August 4, the criminal case against Pashinyan was separated. The
next day, the accused and his attorneys were notified of the end of
inquest procedures and were given the copies of case records.

During March 1-2, 2008 clashes and disorders following presidential
elections, 8 individuals died, and about 200 were injured as a result
of police operations.

An active participant in above events, Pashinyan went underground
and was being searched by the Police. On July 1, he gave himself up
to law enforcement agencies. The same day pro-opposition activist
was arrested by the law enforcers from Kentron police department and
taken to "Yerevan-Kentron " penitentiary.

NOT THE MOST CORRUPTED, BUT EVIDENCING SUCH CASES

Aysor, Armenia
Aug 26 2009

"We are not the most corrupted but there are such cases. That’s why
the Higher Education Institutions since 2006 have been practicing
written examinations, and this year we are having automated test
exams without participation of lecturers, hence hoping to exclude
the corruption phenomenon",- Yuri Suvaryan, the rector of the Yerevan
State Economic University, declared about this at the press conference.

He informed that the system of automated knowledge test check was
practiced last year. As to Yuri Suvaryan, the number of students
increase year after year, in 2006 there were 1600 applicants,
in 2007-1800, in 2008-2000 and in 2009-2390 applicants. This year
entered 475 students more than expected.

In Yerevan State Economic University three new professions and a
number of specializations were introduced: anti-crisis management,
duty and tax budget rights, economic journalism and etc.

Yuri Suvaryan informed that the credit system is practiced for
bachelors’ degree, and for the system to be effective, each year
course guides are distributed to students, where the principles of
the credit system learning are described.

On answering the questions of Aysor.am, Yuri Suvaryan said that
there was no fee increase during the past 4 years and no increase
is expected in future, as there is the economic crisis and people
live under such conditions. "Though the education becomes expensive,
we will not have any fee increase, it will be immoral", he said.

The rector mentioned that they are in the midst concerning the fees,
as there are other institutions having higher fees: Yerevan State
University, Slavonic University, French University and etc.

Yuri Suvaryan thinks that both state and private universities are
rivals for the Economic University. "We also compete with western
higher education institutions, as some young people want to study
abroad and on coming back they occupy the labor market. And our
student must compete with them".

According to the data provided by the RA Ministry of Education and
Science, there are 17 government and 25 non-government higher education
institutions. The fees are between 250 -800 thousand drams annually,
and the average fee in the Economic University is 400thousand drams.

KAIDANOW’S VISIT TO ARMENIA VEILED

Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
Aug 24 2009
Armenia

New U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and probable OSCE MG
CO-Chair candidate on NKR issue settlement Tina S. Kaidanow will pay
initial visit to South Caucasus in September. The diplomat plans to
visit Georgia first to meet with Georgian authorities and opposition
representatives.

There is no information about the terms and details of Kaidanow’s
visit to Armenia, U.S. Embassy in Armenia informed NEWS.am.

While Georgia takes Kaidanow’s measure so far, Azerbaijan already
beats the alarm on her possible designation to Bryza’s post. The fact
she was the U.S. Ambassador to Kosovo and meanwhile the mover of its
independence raised panic in Azerbaijan.

NEW RF AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA

Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
Aug 24 2009
Armenia

Newly appointed Russian Ambassador to Armenia Vyacheslav Kovalenko
presented the credentials to RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan.

Nalbandyan and Kovalenko discussed Russian-Armenian bilateral issues
related to the regional and foreign policy, RA Foreign Ministry
Press service informed NEWS.am. Vyacheslav Kovalenko comes to replace
Nikolai Pavlov.

Kovalenko, 63, graduated from the Institute of Oriental Languages at
Moscow State University in 1972 and was on diplomat since 1973. In
2004 Kovalenko was appointed as Director of the Second Department of
CIS countries at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was appointed
as Ambassador of Russia to Georgia on 11 July 2006. Kovalenko speaks
Russian, Arabic, Belarusian and French.

`I am a Man’ to organize film presentation in several towns of Armenia
and Artsakh
22.08.2009 13:45 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ This autumn, Armenia will host the 3rd `I am a Man’
Caucasian Peace and Human Rights Festival. This year, festival films
will be screened in both Armenian regions (particularly, Syunik, Lori
and Tavush) and Artsakh (Stepanakert, Shushi and Hadrut). Film
presentation within festival frameworks will be almost simultaneously
organized in Azerbaijan, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Every year, festival program includes up to twelve documentaries
selected from the series of `One World’ Paris film
festival. Documentaries to be screened this year include films shot by
Israeli, Kyrgyz, Bulgarian, Egyptian Netherlandian, Belgian, French,
Canadian, American, Thailand and Croatian film makers. Film
presentation in Armenia and Artsakh will be accompanied by Russian
dubbing and Armenian subtitles.
This year `I am a Man’ Festival will organize film presentations in 5
Armenian towns, including Yeghegnadzor (September 10-12), Vanadzor
(September 14-16), Noyemberyan (September 18-20), Kapan (September
22-24) and Yerevan (October 9-11). Film presentation in Artsakh will
be organized according to the following schedule: Stepanakert –
September 28-30, Hadrut – October 2-4 and Shushi – October 5-7.

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For Immediate Release:
Thursday, August 20, 2009

Governor Schwarzenegger Appoints Charles S. Poochigian to the Fifth
District Court of Appeal
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the appointment of
Charles S. Poochigian as associate justice of the Court of Appeal,
Fifth Appellate District.

Poochigian, 60, of Fresno, has served as an attorney with Dowling,
Aaron and Keeler since 2007. Prior to that, he served as a senator
representing the 14th District for the California State Senate from
1998 to 2006 and assemblymember representing the 29th District for the
California State Assembly
from 1994 to 1998. From 1991 to 1994, Poochigian served as the
appointments secretary for Governor Pete Wilson and, from 1988 to
1990, he served as chief deputy appointments secretary for Governor
George Deukmejian. From 1981 to 1988, Poochigan was a sole
practitioner and, from 1975 to 1981, he was
a partner for Vartabedian and Poochigian. Poochigian earned a Juris
Doctorate degree from Santa Clara University School of Law and a
Bachelor of Science degree from California State University,
Fresno. He fills the vacancy created by the death of Justice Thomas
A. Harris. Poochigian is a Republican.

The salary for this position is $204,599.

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