Hrant Melkumyan champion of Chess 960
Saturday,January 28
GM Hrant Melkumyan took the title of Armenian Chess 960 champion in
2012. In the second tournament of Chess 960 Melkumyan received 6
points out of 7. Zaven Andriasyan (5 points) took the second place and
Levon Babujyan (4 points) took the third one. As the armchess.am
reports the awards were given by the international coach Ashot
Vardapetyan.
Aysor.am
5-year-old boy dies in car accident
news.am
January 28, 2012 | 17:03
YEREVAN. – A mini bus ran over 5-year-old Markos Hovsepyan at 12.30
p.m. in one of Yerevan districts on Friday.
The child died on the way to hospital, police press service informs
Armenian News-NEWS.am. An investigation is underway.
Telephone cable robbers detained in Armenia
news.am
January 28, 2012 | 18:15
YEREVAN. – Back in June, 2011 police received a call saying that
8,000 m telephone cable was stolen from Shorzha-Vardenis railroad
belonging to the South-Caucasus railway LLC.
Police clarified that Hamlet Hovsepyan, 37, Sevan city resident, had
robbed the cable, police press service informs Armenian News-NEWS.am.
The investigation of the criminal case was resumed.
Another telephone cable robbery case happened in Etchmiadzin on Jan.
16 this year. The cable belonged to ArmenTel mobile operator. Police
detained previously convicted Mushegh Piliposyan, 33, and Mushegh
Sahakyan, 24 on Friday. An investigation is underway.
Holocaust archive brought to UK, Armenian Genocide testimonies to be added
January 28, 2012 – 21:31 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – The arrival in Britain of an archive of tens of
thousands of Holocaust testimonies will give much needed historical
weight to the experiences of survivors, according to a leading
scholar.
David Cesarani, of the Holocaust Research Centre at the University of
London, believes that the U.S. video archive, set up 18 years ago by
Steven Spielberg, will help to rebalance a picture that has been
dominated by the study of the perpetrators of the atrocities of the
World War II.
The extraordinary catalogue of personal testimony, collected by the
Shoah Foundation Institute since the film director made Schindler’s
Listin 1993, is housed at the University of Southern California, but
on Friday, Jan 27, it was formally shared with academics and students
at the research centre at Royal Holloway to mark Holocaust Memorial
Day.
Cesarani believes the archive facility will set British historical
research in the right context. “It is going to have a huge impact,” he
said. “This is an authentic resource for British researchers and
historians which will give them access to the experiences of people
who have never written anything down. Too much of the history of the
Holocaust has been about the perpetrators. The survivors, with a few
exceptions, have tended to disappear from the scene.”
Smith hopes that non-specialists will also visit the archive. The USC
Shoah Foundation Institute is broadening its archive to incorporate
testimony from survivors of other genocides. It is collecting
testimony in Rwanda, where the Aegis Trust set up the Kigali Memorial
Centre in 2004. This year Rwandan and Armenian testimony should be
added to the visual history archive.
Economist: Armenian army our pride
11:29 28/01/2012 » Society
`Armenian army is our pride, we have an efficient and professional
army, which, I think, needs a great support of ours,’ economist Tatul
Manaseryan told Panorama.am.
Service in an army should be honor be honor for every soldier.
`Those casualties recorded in the army should claim responsibility of
those who are in direct connection with them,’ T. Manaseryan said.
Source: Panorama.am
Azerbaijan violates ceasefire 150 times past week
NEWS.AM
January 28, 2012 | 16:03
STEPANAKERT. – The adversary violated the ceasefire, at the line of
contact between the Karabakh-Azerbaijani opposing forces, around 150
times in the past week.
Through different weaponry, more than 500 shots were fired in the
direction of the Armenian positions, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR)
Defense Army Press Service informs.
But NKR Defense Army vanguard forces refrained from responding to the
provocative operations, and they continued to confidently carry out
their military watch.
We know our advantages – Armenian Minister of Defense
news.am
January 28, 2012 | 13:29
YEREVAN. – Interpersonal relations were the reason for the Azerbaijani
soldier to defect his army, Armenia’s Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan
stated Saturday, to news reporters, during his visit to capital
Yerevan’s Yerablur Pantheon.
`We know our advantages, and we also know the situation in the
adversary’s army,’ Ohanyan said, and stressed: `We are not concerned
by all that. What’s important is that the Armenian soldiers noticed
him, while crossing the border, and escorted him.’
To note, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Defense Army military
servicemen detained, on Monday at the Karabakh-Azerbaijani line of
contact, a citizen of Azerbaijan who was entering the Karabakh side of
the line of contact. NKR State Commission on Prisoners of War,
Hostages, and Missing Persons had issued a statement in this regard:
`The detained was wearing the uniform of a military serviceman of the
Azerbaijani Armed Forces. He had a military service record with him on
the name of Junior Sergeant Akhundzade Mamedbagru Taliboghlu, born in
1990. NKR’s respective agencies are ascertaining the circumstances of
the incident. NKR authorities have informed of this incident to the
International Committee of the Red Cross and the OSCE offices
accredited in [NKR capital] Stepanakert,’ the statement read.
As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, President Serzh Sargsyan
paid a visit to capital Yerevan’s Yerablur Pantheon for fallen
Karabakh war heroes, in the morning of Saturday, January 28, 2012 – the
Armenian Armed Forces Day 20th anniversary – and laid a wreath to the
memorial. NKR President Bako Sahakyan, Armenian National Assembly
Speaker Samvel Nikoyan, PM, Tigran Sargsyan, Defense Minister Seyran
Ohanyan, and senior army officers were also on hand at the Pantheon to
pay their respects to the fallen heroes.
We will acquire new weaponry by 2015 – Armenian Defense Minister
news.am
January 28, 2012 | 12:47
YEREVAN. – One of the Armenian army’s main directions is passing to a
strategic planning, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan stated Saturday to
news reporters, during his visit to capital Yerevan’s Yerablur
Pantheon, adding that the army is increasing its military capabilities
by way of acquiring weaponry.
`We will acquire new weaponry, no later than 2015, which will be
long-range, [and] accurate, and it will solve those problems which the
army faces,’ Ohanyan said.
The Minister also noted that the Security Council approved, in 2011,
Armenia’s military industry concept, along the lines of which a huge
program of events is planned for this year.
As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, President Serzh Sargsyan
paid a visit to capital Yerevan’s Yerablur Pantheon for fallen
Karabakh war heroes, in the morning of Saturday, January 28, 2012 – the
Armenian Armed Forces Day 20th anniversary – and laid a wreath to the
memorial. Nagorno-Karabakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan, National
Assembly Speaker Samvel Nikoyan, PM, Tigran Sargsyan, Defense Minister
Seyran Ohanyan, and senior army officers were also on hand at the
Pantheon to pay their respects to the fallen heroes.
DM Seyran Ohanyan addresses the relatives of the killed and missing soldiers
armradio.am
28.01.2012 14:59
Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan issued an address to the relatives of
those killed in the Arsakh war and the missing persons.
`Dear compatriots,
20 years ago our people was again destined to create heroic history
and start the fight for the liberation of Artsakh and the independence
of the Republic of Armenia. We can state 20 years later that this
struggle was a success thanks to nationwide efforts and sacrifices.
Today Artaskh is liberated, the Republic of Armenia is a steadily
developing independent state.
Dear compatriots, the Artsakh war was also a test for the Armenian
national dignity. Our people successfully passed that exam, and this
is first of all the achievement of your sons, fathers and brothers.
Thanks to their devoted service the Armenian people enjoy the
happiness of living and creating peacefully on their native land, and
the 20th anniversary of the Armenian Army is first of all your
holiday.’
`We, the continuers of the work of your relatives, promise to develop
the success achieved at the cost of life of your sons, fathers and
brothers to leave to the coming generations the state they dream of,’
the Defense Minister said.
FRANCE
Fabienne Keller (UMP) annonce avoir signé le recours auprès des Sages
La sénatrice UMP Fabienne Keller a annoncé vendredi dans un communiqué
avoir signé le recours auprès du Conseil constitutionnel que tente de
former le président du RDSE (à majorité radicaux de gauche) Jacques
Mézard sur le texte pénalisant la négation du génocide arménien.
Il faut la signature de 60 sénateurs pour pouvoir saisir les Sages. M.
Mézard a indiqué vendredi à l’AFP `être confiant` dans le succès de
son entreprise. Des sénateurs des six groupes politiques du Sénat ont
déjà apposé leur signature sur ce recours. A l’UMP, outre Mme Keller,
Alain Fouché et Jean-Jacques Hyest ont révélé avoir signé et indiqué
que d’autres de leurs collègues avaient fait de même.
Mme Keller souligne dans son communiqué qu’`opposée par principe aux
lois mémorielles` elle avait choisi de ne pas prendre part au vote
lundi dernier lorsque la proposition de loi UMP a été votée par le
Sénat.
`Cette loi risque dentraver le travail des enseignants et des
historiens. Laissons-les faire le travail de recherche essentiel pour
parvenir à une explication et une compréhension précise et solide des
événements`, insiste-t-elle. Pour la sénatrice du Bas-Rhin et ancienne
maire de Strasbourg où réside une forte communauté turque, `ce travail
scientifique est le préalable nécessaire à une mémoire apaisée et
assumée`.
Le Rassemblement démocratique et social européen (RDSE), comme le
groupe écologiste, s’était prononcé en bloc lundi contre le texte qui
a cependant été adoptée par une majorité de sénateurs. Il a entamé dès
mardi matin la collecte des soixante signatures nécessaires pour la
saisine des Sages.
86 sénateurs ont voté contre la PPL et 126 pour. 236 sénateurs ont
pris part au vote sur un effectif global de 347 sénateurs (un siège
est vacant à la suite d’une invalidation électorale).
Le Conseil constitutionnel peut censurer une loi qu’il juge contraire
à la Constitution, s’il est saisi par 60 députés, 60 sénateurs, le
chef de l’Etat, le président de l’Assemblée nationale ou celui du
Sénat.
Jacques Mézard a dit vendredi `être confiant` dans le succès de son entreprise.
samedi 28 janvier 2012,
Stéphane ©armenews.com