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LE CHANTEUR ANDRE PARTICIPE AUX TRAVAUX DE MISE EN VALEUR DE L’EGLISE PARAVATZOR (7E SIECLE) AU HAUT KARABAGH RECEMMENT MISE A JOUR

HAUT KARABAGH-PATRIMOINE ARMENIEN

Le chanteur Andre -originaire du Haut Karabagh- a en compagnie
de ses amis, procede au nettoyage du site de l’eglise Paravatzor,
dans les environs du village de Vank (Haut Karabagh). Cette très
ancienne eglise, fortement degradee, perdue dans les bois, mise a
jour dernièrement date de l’an 630.

l’eglise de Parabatzor (7e siècle) au Haut Karabagh

photos site news.am

” Cette merveille qui etait abandonnee durant de très nombreux
siècles fut redecouverte ” dit Andre très heureux en tenue militaire,
de participer aux travaux de nettoyage du perimètre, pour la mise
en evidence cette construction de près de 14 siècles qui a traverse
le temps pour temoigner de la très ancienne presence armenienne au
Haut Karabagh.

Krikor Amirzayan

samedi 31 août 2013, Krikor Amirzayan ©armenews.com

AZERBAIJAN’S DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER: NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT TO BE SOLVED IN NEAR FUTURE

Trend, Azerbaijan
Aug 30 2013

Azerbaijan, Baku, Aug. 30 /Trend I. Izzet/

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will be solved in the near future, the Deputy
Prime Minister of Azerbaijan, the Chairman of the State Committee
for Deals of Refugees and IDPs Ali Hasanov told journalists on Friday.

Deputy Prime Minister noted that August 31 is the day of occupation
of Azerbaijan’s Gubadli district and added that in the near future
Azerbaijan will liberate its lands occupied by Armenia.

“We are very sorry that we come together only on the days of
occupation. We are fully confident that in the near future we will
also gather together on the day of victory under the leadership of
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. We believe that the time will
come when these lands will be liberated. We will surely meet with
Gubadli district’s community in Gubadli – one of the most beautiful
places of Azerbaijan,” Deputy Prime Minister said.

Hasanov went on to add that, this problem will be solved soon,
despite the fact that Armenia is delaying the problem’s settlement
with an unconstructive position.

“Azerbaijani President was able in a short time to familiarize the
whole world with Azerbaijan and this country’s people, he turned
Azerbaijan into a center of global interests, and the Head of State
will be able to solve this problem. We believe that besides this
problem, there are no serious problems in the country. Our only problem
is the problem of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,
and it will be solved,” Hasanov said.

The Deputy Prime Minister said that the President of Azerbaijan
Ilham Aliyev provided 1,200,000 refugees and internally displaced
persons (IDPs) with all required conditions and solved all their
social problems.

“During the last year, averagely $1,350 was spent on one IDP. Over
the last 20 years $5.4 million dollars were spent to this sphere,
and over 80 percent of these works have been carried out during Ilham
Aliyev’s presidency years. The number of the settlements built for
the IDPs will reach 82, and some 180,000 people, or up to 35,000
families will be resettled till late 2013, and 91 percent of this
has been conducted in the last 10 years,” Hasanov underscored.

Deputy Prime Minister added that Azerbaijani President will surely
achieve the liberation of the occupied lands.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan.

Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 per cent of Azerbaijan since
1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding
districts.Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994.

The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Russia, France and the U.S. are
currently holding peace negotiations.

Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council’s four
resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
surrounding regions.

PRICES FOR SERVICES IN ARMENIA RISE 2.6% IN AUGUST 2013

YEREVAN, August 30. /ARKA/. Prices for services in Armenia rose 2.6%
in August 2013, compared with the previous month, mainly due to a
six-percent increase in utility prices, National Statistical Service
of Armenia reports.

The price for pipeline gas and electricity rose 5.7% and 9.1%
respectively.

Prices for communications went 0.1% up, prices for household services
rose 0.2%, for healthcare services 0.2%, for catering services 0.4%
and culture services 2%.

Instead, leisure and transport services became 1% and 0.7% cheaper
respectively.

In all the cities under review, increase in prices for services ranged
between 2.4% and 2.9%. In Yerevan prices for services grew 2.6%.

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MYTH OF COMMANDOS AND GENERALS

Attacks on General Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan a.k.a. Commandos, continue
since he has dwelt on some people and facts of the Karabakh war.

“Russian generals” and “elite” of veterans speak against him who have
held high-ranking positions in government agencies.

When speaking about him they say he is none of a commando, they created
a myth out of him and sent him to the front line. In fact, now they
are trying to bust the myth they created like Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan
was trying to bust myths of the war.

Myths are good if they are not too many. In Armenia, however, myths
have been too many since times memorable. Allegations on Commandos
make one think that the military leadership of Armenia is busy creating
myths. Myths and generals.

The Karabakh war was marked by a tough clash of myths and reality.

While Armenia was creating myths and sending them down to the front
line, Karabakh did not have time for that and often had to fight both
Azerbaijanis and myths. The second was more difficult because it was
necessary to find the right “balance” and prevent losses. It was hard
in the first stage of the war, which resulted in innumerable losses.

Later the “balance” was found. Conditions were created for myths to
make sure they remain within their limits and their “honorary” places.

The opposite extremity is in Karabakh. People in Karabakh do not
recognize popularity and myths. Hence, discussions on the war make
an impression that there were no “generals” in Karabakh or they
were there in the capacity of side watchers. There were generals,
and what generals, they simply did not suit the traditional Armenian
“mythology”. They understood the subtleties of war, at the same time
paying homage to the “Russian generals”, including Commandos, whose
war plans caused a sneer.

Besides, there were a lot of devotees in Armenia and Karabakh whose
names are not known widely. Who remembers Armen of Togh, Davit of
Yerevan, Kuchur Yura, Norik, tens and hundreds of other young men? Who
remembers the artillerist who overcame psychological and all kinds of
other obstacles and shot the first at the tanks with Russian personnel
achieving a breakthrough in the battlefield?

The devotees usually do not speak about war. The people who were
busy with mythology out of different urges and motivations, who
had problems with war and for whom the right to war was the key to
solution of their personal problems speak about war.

Haik Aramyan 16:25 30/08/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:

ARMENIA REGISTERS 9.3% INFLATION IN AUGUST

August 30, 2013 | 14:19

YEREVAN. – Armenia registered a 9.3-percent inflation in August 2013,
National Statistical Service said in a report.

Consumer prices in Armenia increased by 10 percent, alcohol and
tobacco by 5.9 percent, non-food products by 4.3 percent and services
by 11.2 percent.

As compared with July, the prices went up by 0.3 percent, while
consumer prices fell by 1 percent. This is explained by deflation of
price of sugar, agricultural products, flour and sunflower oil.

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Bohjalian: The boulder’s big, but our children can move it

By Chris Bohjalian // August 31, 2013

A child brings two heavy buckets of water into the home of a strange
old woman and discovers there a wall of cages with dogs trapped
inside-and a small carpet on the floor that has been woven from dog
fur. A nine-year-old girl refuses to go to bed, reducing her parents
to tears of happiness. . .because her verbal defiance marks the first
time she has spoken in years. And a young adult befriends a stream and
then, when it dries up, has to journey far up a mountain to push aside
the massive boulder that has rolled into the streambed and dammed the
flow.

I saw these stories enacted by young adults last month in an
experimental theater piece in Karakert

Behind these short stories are much longer ones. Behind these fables
are powerful sagas of survival and poignant tales of transcending a
life in which the cards are stacked against you. In some cases, it’s
the universal dramas that accompany adolescence anywhere; in others,
it’s the litany of problems that confront many teenagers today in
rural Armenia-poverty, absentee fathers, the seeming impossibility of
escaping a world of moldering Soviet industrial sarcophagi that blight
an otherwise preternaturally beautiful landscape.

I saw these stories enacted by young adults last month in an
experimental theater piece in Karakert, a town of about 4,000 people
an hour northwest of Yerevan. The program is part of the Children of
Armenia Fund (COAF) initiative in Karakert, an effort that is centered
around a $700,000 school renovation, but also involves teacher
training, elevating the community’s health care, economic and
professional development, and-in this case-summer theater.

COAF is the non-profit brainchild of Armenian-American businessman
Garo Armen, and has been working to elevate the lives of rural
Armenian children for a decade now, with schools and programming in
twelve villages today.

The rehearsal dazzled me. Before I left for Armenia, some of my
friends who live in Yerevan told me I wouldn’t see any theater or
opera on this visit, because so much of the city’s performing arts
community is on vacation at the end of the summer. No worries: I had
Karakert on my calendar. The ensemble featured twenty kids between the
ages of 12 and 17, working with a Yerevan director who has been
journeying almost daily to work with the young actors. Together they
have written their monologues-or, in some cases, brief scenes-as well
as chosen the music and choreographed the occasional dances.

I speak about fifty words of Armenian, most of which involve greetings
and food, but the emotions in the performance were clear and they were
raw. If I didn’t understand the details, I got the gist. I watched
enrapt, impressed by the actors’ authenticity and moved by their
emotional candor. This wasn’t merely about drama: It was about
catharsis and growth.

After the performance, the students surprised me by wanting my opinion
as a writer on their original narratives: What, in my judgment, worked
– as well as what didn’t. I tried to be helpful and honest, but I kept
coming back to this reality: A decade ago, their school was a husk
with neither windows nor water, a casualty of the earthquake and
sudden Soviet collapse. In the winter, it was heated with kerosene and
burning manure. Now it’s a vibrant and inspiring world with a computer
center, creativity lab, painting loft, and cheerful, comfortable
classrooms. In some ways, these kids are the product of both a nation
brought to its knees between 1988 and 1991, and of the tangible
progress that is occurring daily. They know where they are coming
from-and where they want to be going.

We in the Diaspora are right to worry about oligarchic dishonesty and
political corruption in the small swatch of our once massive empire
that today is our nation. It’s natural to wonder how we can pull our
fellow Armenians from a fiscal quicksand created by closed borders and
an unfairly landlocked geography.

But if I learned anything on my most recent visit to Armenia, it is
this: Our youth there are not merely resilient. They are not merely
talented. They make the most of the opportunities we in the Diaspora
give them. They are ready and willing to climb the mountain to push
aside even the most damming-and damning-boulders. With a little help
from all of us, they are capable of building an Armenia that will make
the next generation very, very proud.
Chris Bohjalian’s most recent novel, The Light in the Ruins, was
published this summer. In October he will be receiving the ANCA
Freedom Award in Philadelphia.

Expert: Injighulyan’s return will be the most reasonable solution
given by official Baku

14:19 31/08/2013 » INTERVIEWS

Editorial of Panorama.am has turned to Angela Elibegova, candidate of
political sciences, for a comment on the situation occurred with the
former Azerbaijani citizen Firuz Farajev. Armenia due to
plenipotentiary international organizations, by the firm decision of
Farajev, passed him to a third State where he is granted the status of
a refugee.

– In 2012, the soldier of the Azerbaijani army preferred to cross the
border with Armenia and to surrender because of intolerable conditions
that exist in Azerbaijani army, at the same time Armenia fully
complied with Farajev’s humanity and human rights. How do you comment
on this situation?

– The Republic of Armenia once again demonstrated an accurate
commitment of the undertaken international obligations and organized
Farajev’s undertime transmission to a democratic country where he is
not at a risk, in contrast to Azerbaijan, where he refused to return.
Thereby, it is easy to track the nature of the measures undertaken on
both side. The official Baku, violating international norms,
demonstrates POW Hakob Injighulyan’s “voluntary” interviews, while
Armenia is planning Farajev’s transmission to a third country.

– What problems did Azerbaijan solve in that way?

– Azerbaijani propaganda tried to solve two problems: to divert the
public attention on the eve of the presidential elections and to exert
psychological pressure on Armenia. Transmitting Farajev to a third
country, Armenia once again proved that blackmailing and pressure by
the Azerbaijani side is senseless and ineffective.

Besides, such violation of international law by Azerbaijan is fixed in
international reports and is effectively used by the Armenian side in
the negotiations of Karabakh conflict settlement process. After all,
when the Azerbaijani authorities in their official statements say that
Armenia torpedoes the peace talks, the Armenian side always has
something to oppose, bringing a weighty counterargument. And thus
there is a bulk of counterarguments accumulated over the years of
negotiations.

– What steps will Azerbaijan undertake?

In this case the most reasonable solution for official Baku will be
Hakob Injighulyan’s return. This is a chance for Azerbaijan to
demonstrate its commitment to a civilized way of solving the bilateral
problems; especially, when Azerbaijan, has already put itself in a
very difficult situation in connection with the murder of captivated
shepherd Manvel Saribekyan and repeatedly violates international
norms.

Source: Panorama.am

SCR IS DEVELOPING COOPERATION WITH YAKUTIA RAILROAD
by Alexander Avanesov

ARMINFO
Friday, August 30, 13:53

To develop cooperation with South Caucasus Railway (SCR) the
representatives of JSC “Railway of Yakutia” visited Armenia, the SCR
website says.

On August 29th the CEO of SCR Victor Rebets recieved Mary Atamanchuk,
Ludmilla Alekseeva, the advisor to CEO and the head of marketing and
contract work. They discussed the prospects for cooperation between
the two subsidiaries of Russian Railways.

During the meeting the parties discussed the implementation of joint
projects in the sphere of professional activity, humanitarian, social
and educational fields and discussed the process of preparation of the
Agreement on Cooperation between the two companies. In particular due
to this agreement the accumulated an exchange of experience between
Armenia and Yakutia’s railway administrations will be implemented in
the spheres of organization of rail freight and passenger services ,
maintenance of rolling stock, insuring of traffic safety. The parties
will also cooperate in the field of information and PR policy,
corporate procedures and management activities. The agreement pays
particular attention to cultural and educational activities, work
with children, youth and family members of the employees of SCR and
YR. Mainly, the parties will cooperate in organizing various sports
activities, development of coaching, recreation and leisure of railway
employees, their children and families.

The other areas of cooperation between the two companies also includ
the military- patriotic education of the youth, the strengthening of
friendly intercultural relations, uniting various volunteer patriotic,
veterans, movements, community initiatives, creation and development
of human resources, development of contacts between the trade unions.

This is not the first visit of the Delegation of the railway Yakutia.

Last year in March the CEO of Railway of Yakutia Vasiliy Shimokhin
visited SCR. He considered the technology used in the diagnosis of
the Armenian railroad, the system of training of specialists in this
field, their applicability to the Amur-Yakutian railway. As V.

Shimokhin noted during the visit SCR and Yakutia Railway have many
features in common: both companies were the subsidiaries and dependent
companies of JSC “Russian Railways”, they had almost equal volumes
of passenger and freight traffic, and SCR problems and challenges
are also relevant to the Amur- Yakutia railway. During the visit of V.

Shimokhin SCR and RY heads also visited the railway station of Yerevan,
considered the process of the development of the railway station
complex of Armenia, held a brief meeting to discuss mutual cooperation.

RUBEN SAFRASTYAN: THE USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS IN SYRIA WAS A GREAT PROVOCATION

18:03 29.08.2013

Karen Ghazaryan
“Radiolur”

The use of chemical weapons in Syria is a heavy crime and the guilty
should be punished, Director of the Oriental Studies Institute of
the Armenian National Academy of Sciences Ruben Safrastyan told a
press conference today. According to him, the use of chemical weapons
was a great provocation aimed not only at engaging the US and other
countries in the Syria events, but also destabilizing the situation
in the whole Middle East.

Safrastyan considers the authors of the provocation are the radical
forces, which actually started implementing their policy of changes
in the Middle East. However, he does not rule out the participation
of certain American and Turkish forces.

He noted that while the US President seemed to support the idea of
immediate intervention, it becomes clear from his most recent remarks
that the US will still wait for the development of events. The same
approach laid in the basis of yesterday’s statement of the UK Foreign
Minister, who said “it’s necessary to wait for the conclusion of the
UN experts.”

According to the analyst, if the US bypasses the UN Security Council
and hits Syria, it will violate the international law and weaken the
role of the UN, which will, in turn, have a negative impact on the
developments all over the world. Besides, it will be dangerous for
the US, itself, as it will “earn”the hostility of a huge sector of
the Arab world.

DAVIT BABAYAN REAFFIRMS KARABAKH’S WILLINGNESS TO SUPPORT SYRIAN-ARMENIANS

09:55, 30 August, 2013

YEREVAN, AUGUST 30, ARMENPRESS. The Nagorno Karabakh Republic supports
the peaceful regulation of the Syrian issue; notwithstanding, in
case of the undesirable developments Artsakh will spare no effort to
assist the Syrian-Armenians within the scope of its capacities. The
Press Spokesman of the Artsakh Republic President Davit Babayan stated
this in a conversation with “Armenpress”. Also, Davit Babayan touched
upon the issue of the recent discussions about the possible assault
of the United States against Syria and in this respect reflected upon
Artsakh’s future steps regarding the possible increase of the number
of SyrianArmenian refugees.

Among other things the Press Spokesman of the Artsakh Republic
President Davit Babayan emphasized that in case of the undesirable
scenario Artsakh will support the Syrian-Armenians. “It’s our duty
to support our compatriots,” Davit Babayan underscored.